00:00My film is called Divide and Conquer, the story of Roger Ailes, and it's a sort of rise and fall story about Roger Ailes, who is the sort of Republican kingmaker and founder of Fox News.
00:17The seeds of it started probably three years ago.
00:21We were sort of circling around both Murdoch and Roger Ailes as it became evident that their world was really becoming our world.
00:30And production kicked in when Roger was deposed from Fox News. At that point he was still alive.
00:37We interviewed people from all times of his life, people who knew him well and had spent years and years and years with him.
00:44They were all revealing in different ways, but Glenn Beck was very surprising.
00:50The crisis communications people who knew him at the end, who were called in to kind of do a Ray Donovan over the kind of Gretchen Carlson scandal, they were very surprising.
01:01With a film like this, people aren't running to participate.
01:06You know, it's obviously a controversial figure.
01:08With most people we had to, you know, have a prolonged conversation with them about, you know, what we were doing, why we were doing it, why it was worth speaking to us.
01:19But that's quite common in documentary that you really have to do a lot of talking and, you know, rapport establishing before you ever roll film.
01:28The documentary is sort of two pronged. It's about politics, but it's also about his personal life and about sexual harassment and sexual abuse.
01:35I try to get the women to speak as much as possible.
01:40I hope that this film shows you what it's like from a woman's perspective.
01:44This happens to women. They need to get out there and work again.
01:48One of our subjects, Tamara Holder, says, you know, we just want to work.
01:52And I hope that this film sort of highlights that, you know, women's careers were ended.
01:56And it's not that they that they, you know, are traumatized beyond their professional capacities.
02:03No, they get on with it.
02:05But unfortunately, it's a bit of a scarlet letter and you're not allowed to work anymore.
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