Told You So Media

Told You So Media is an independent documentary film production company focused on true crime expose’, social commentary projects, and investigative film making. 

“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” - Louis Brandeis - American Supreme Court Justice 1914

As true in 1914 as it is today, our mission is to examine and investigate issues that affect society and present factual information in a way that is accessible to all. 

Pre-Production

Since 1829, most Brits have largely viewed the police and the established “Peelian Principles” as a necessary, relatively innocuous, component of civilized society. The image of the Bobby walking the beat was comforting to the law-abiding citizenry. Someone was looking over us all, keeping the bad guys away. 

However, over the past two decades, that perception has dramatically changed. Police are routinely profiled in the media as aggressive, authoritarian, abusive, and corrupt. A recent poll showed that less than 40% of Brits trust the police.

Bobby Britian is a documentary that looks at the factors that are contributing to the UK’s decline in respect for and trust in members of the police force. At a time when communities are suffering drastic economic cuts that negatively affect social services, mental health initiatives, and both citizen and immigrant housing availability, the police are routinely called in to manage issues outwith their experience and training.

Coupled with the rise in violent crimes, drug trafficking, human trafficking, cyber crimes, and a focus on creating a more militarized police force to combat terrorism, the police forces, and the Bobbies themselves, are facing an existential crisis. 

Production

1 out of every 5 people in the United Kingdom and 1 out of every 6 people in the United States over the age of 60, suffer some form of elder abuse each year. Physical and mental abuse, neglect, mismedication, malnutrition and financial abuse affect millions of people in the developed world.

The so-called “Silent Generation” (born 1928 to 1946) is facing an epidemic of abuse received in nursing or residential care homes, retirement or assisted living facilities, and through home health care providers who are focused on the incredible profits generated by “warehousing” the elderly. 

Silent is a documentary focused on elder care companies in the United States and in the United Kingdom accused by employees and the family members of elderly victims of abuse.    

Post-Production

A look at the growing trend in “deadbeat” parents fleeing the UK to Australia, South Africa, Spain, Canada, and the United States to avoid paying child maintenance and shirk support responsibilities. 

The Child Support Act of 1991 made the collection of child maintenance a more streamlined affair. Child support funds are deducted automatically out of the benefits packets of tens of thousands of non-custodial parents, making avoiding payment a difficulty. However, if a parent works in a foreign country, especially if they work for a foreign employer, it is almost impossible to collect.

Deadbeat Tourism is a documentary examining a growing underground network that helps non-custodial parents flee to countries that have either non-existent or ineffective reciprocal arrangements to collect child support from British ex-pats.