How do efforts to close off film festivals keep you from accessing independent voices and dissent? Ted Balaker, the producer of films such as Little Pink House and Can We Take a Joke?, discusses the insidious ways in which gatekeeping at Sundance and other film festivals has created a "uniculture." Ted is working on his latest documentary, The Coddling of the American Mind, and has concerns as an independent filmmaker over whether wokery and cancel culture has all but eliminated any competing points of view from artistic representation. We also talk about Ted's new Substack, Shiny Herd.