Arethinn ([info]arethinn) wrote in [info]otherkin,
2012-02-10 13:51:00
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TV show requests going around again

I recently received an email from a joseph.john@zigzag.uk.com asking for phone interviews for a supposed documentary on otherkin; if you're at all findable as 'kin (such as listed in a directory) you may have as well. (post on 'Kin Speak on tumblr if you haven't seen it) As usual, I advise exercising caution if you choose to get in contact; according to Shangrila on the Werelist forum, the company is working with the tabloid National Enquirer (for a different show entirely, but doesn't speak well of their taste in partners or content).

Someone on 'Kin Speak suggested that if we want a documentary to be out there, otherkin should make our own, which I think is a pretty neat idea. Since these sorts of inquiries are coming round fairly regularly these days, maybe it's time?
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[info]moonscream

February 11 2012, 00:34:31 UTC 3 months ago Edited:  February 11 2012, 00:35:28 UTC

Odd, the medicine man I do a blog for has had a sudden resurgence in interest in a 'mysterious hole' he knows of. He's already done a TV and a radio interview just in the last couple of weeks. He's been interviewed in the past several times about it, but not for several years. I don't believe in coincidence anymore, tho it is a convenient shorthand word for such things.

[info]of_salfarro

February 11 2012, 04:20:12 UTC 3 months ago

I think the word you are looking for is "synchronity"

[info]moonscream

February 11 2012, 05:34:53 UTC 3 months ago

Mmmm, no...but that one works, too.

[info]of_salfarro

February 11 2012, 14:01:49 UTC 3 months ago

* I typoed. "Synchronicity"

[info]jarandhel

February 11 2012, 01:46:57 UTC 3 months ago

Even if we do our own, I don't see a positive outcome. If we put it out there, we'd still have to find a company willing to publish it, and it would get edited into the same sensationalistic crap that sells. I just don't see a scenario where this would work for educating the public, or really even a scenario where trying to educate the general public would be a positive thing. We've had far more success in the past by targeting pagan groups than the general public at large.

[info]moonscream

February 11 2012, 05:39:02 UTC 3 months ago

If you do your own you can distribute it online, like other very independent films and documentaries have done. Or create a webseries. Eventually as it becomes known or is advertised, the public will become aware of it.

But it would require having the equipment and crew and even a small budget to make it.

[info]pyewackettt

February 11 2012, 19:42:16 UTC 3 months ago Edited:  February 11 2012, 19:42:33 UTC

I got the same email, mmhhhm.

Sure we could make our own ~ there are a lot of pros and cons for it, but having kin make it wouldn't automatically = good quality that represents everybody in a way that we're all happy with. Sadly.

[info]luwana

February 13 2012, 16:10:29 UTC 3 months ago Edited:  February 13 2012, 16:10:48 UTC

I think I'm actually more scared of kin making it than I am of sensationalist studios making it.
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