my partner is the producer of this film, rory kennedy, she's made films which also i think are pretty clear about their point of view. as a documentary film maker, we do have point of views. our claim is not to present everything as if we are totally neutral. what we do seek to do is allow all sides to tell their versions of the story. what you'll see in shouting fire, we have people from extreme left and extreme right talking in this film. so it's my goal to enable that conversation but certainly not to hide my point of view. i'm certainly a democrat. i identify with progressive politics and i'm certainly quite open about that. host: how long did it take to put the documentary together and how difficult? guest: it was challenging because you think when you're making a documentary about free speech, you will have a lot of people who are interested in speaking freely. there were a lot of doors shut to us. there was a principal in new york city named debbie, a muslim american and had worked in the department of education for 15 years as a kindergarten teacher in public schools. then new

my partner is rory kennedy and her film, she has maid films which are i think pretty clear about their point of view. as a filmmaker, we do have point of views, our claim is not to present everything as in we are totally neutral. what we do seek to do is allow all sides to tell their versions of the story which you'll see in "shouting fire" we have people from left, extreme left and extreme right talking in this film so it's my goal to enable that conversation but certainly not to hide any -- my point of view. i'm certainly a democrat, i identify with progressive politics and i'm certainly quite open about that. >> how long did it take to put the documentary together and how challenging was it? >> it was challenging because you think when you are making a film about free speech you'll have a lot of people interested in speaking freely but we found there was a lot of doors shut to us. one story we did was about a principal in new york city, she is a muslim-american and had worked in the department of education for 15 years. as a kindergarten teach then new york city had the idea of star