These Parents Made a TV Show to Teach Kids Media Literacy - Now It's Booming on Amazon

Shane Snow and Sylvia Brindis lost their funding six weeks before shooting. They pivoted and built Fluff Piece, a kids' show that teaches media literacy—now on Amazon's Wonder Project. Can it save our kids from the fake news dystopia?

About Sylvia Brindis:
Sylvia Brindis is an actor, writer, and producer, and the co-creator and star of Fluff Piece, the media-literacy kids' series on Amazon's Wonder Project channel. She plays reporter Fiona Flash.

Chapters:
(00:00) Shane's hiatus: they made a TV show

(01:59) What Fluff Piece actually is

(04:31) Funding vanished 6 weeks out

(09:14) Why media literacy, and Blue Drink

(15:58) Make the whole season first

(26:03) Raising the money, selling the show

(38:02) Where AI helped and where it flopped

(52:00) Cognitive friction and closing zags