EP4 Corona Freelancers, Artists, and Looking Through the Lens of Those Who Look Through Lenses - Dave Rutherford

Intention Podcast with Byron DeLear

In this fourth episode of Intention, host Byron DeLear speaks with award-winning cinematographer Dave Rutherford about freelancing during COVID-19 and what media production companies and producers are doing to continue their work. With sporting events and travel canceled, political campaigns paused, and television and films put on hold, what are professionals doing about their livelihood? Is how we communicate changing? What are freelancers doing about the economic shutdown? Dave and Byron discuss what it's like covering protests while being hit with tear gas in Ferguson, Missouri, producing political commercials for Governors, covering presidential campaigns like for Joe Biden, and being the go-to crew for ABC News and George Stephanopoulos. Dave talks about public policy impacting media, the benefits of film tax credits and how they've boosted the economy of Georgia by billions and why they should be restored in states that have stopped them, like in Missouri. Finally, is there a way to pull out of this calamity a new outlook, a new way to communicate and be human? Perhaps.