Matt Pirrall

Project: The Bird and the Bee

Matt Pirrall is a producer and director with ten years of experience creating award winning documentary and educational series, short films, and commercial videos. After working internationally as a humanitarian filmmaker and photographer, he returned to the United States and began developing content strategy and producing projects for a variety of educational organizations, commercial clients, and nonprofits. His work with Ascension, in particular, has been recognized with numerous industry awards including multiple Emmy nominations and Telly Awards. He lives in Traverse City, Michigan with his wife and daughter.

The Bird and the Bee

How does a satire comedy website find itself on the front lines of the debate over free speech online? Seth Dillon and his team at the Babylon Bee,tell the story of they unwittingly found themselves at war with Twitter over a joke, eventually garnering the attention of Elon Musk and ushering in a new era for the social media company. The future of comedy and free speech on the internet are all at stake and in the hands of a couple of jokesters and satirists.

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