1. Cassie Jaye was born on May 1,1986 and is an American film director, best known for directing the 2016 documentary film The Red Pill about the men's rights movement.
22 Facts About Cassie Jaye
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When she was 14, Cassie Jaye moved to Las Vegas, where she attended Palo Verde High School.
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Cassie Jaye formed Jaye Bird Productions, a film production company, in 2008.
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Bust magazine praised "Cassie Jaye for exposing the truth about abstinence-only programs, the stories of teenagers who buy into it, and its consequences".
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In December 2018, Cassie Jaye published Daddy I Do on her channel on YouTube.
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Cassie Jaye directed and produced her second feature documentary film The Right to Love: An American Family in 2012.
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In December 2018, Cassie Jaye published The Right to Love on her channel on YouTube.
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Cassie Jaye directed and produced the 2016 American documentary film The Red Pill about the men's rights movement.
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Cassie Jaye spent a year interviewing men's rights figures, such as Paul Elam, founder of A Voice for Men; Harry Crouch, president of the National Coalition for Men; Warren Farrell, author of The Myth of Male Power; and Erin Pizzey, who started the first domestic violence shelter for men in the modern world.
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Cassie Jaye interviewed critics of the movement, such as Ms.
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Cassie Jaye initially relied on her own money to fund the film, as well as that from her mother and her boyfriend, as she found difficulty finding backers from traditional sources after it became known that the film would take a "balanced approach" view of the men's rights movement.
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Cassie Jaye received support from Breitbart News columnist Milo Yiannopoulos.
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Cassie Jaye gave a TEDx speech about her experience making The Red Pill.
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In 2019 Cassie Jaye said that the video diaries she recorded during filming allowed her to remember what her views on feminism were before she started working on the film, and why she thought that way.
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David Futrelle accused Cassie Jaye of soliciting funding from members of the men's rights movement, which she portrays sympathetically.
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Cassie Jaye has said that the suggestion the film was funded by MRAs is "a common lie that keeps spreading," and that the film's backers and producers would have no influence or control of the film.
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Cassie Jaye has defended the film as being "extremely balanced" and that people were "heard in context without manipulation".
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Cassie Jaye uploaded the interview to her own page, where it was removed shortly after as a copyright violation.
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Cassie Jaye posted screenshots of emails to prove that Sunrise's producer had received a copy of the film a month before the interview and plenty of time for the hosts to have watched it.
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In September 2018, Cassie Jaye discovered that she was pregnant, but then miscarried about a month later.
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Cassie Jaye recorded the events of her pregnancy and miscarriage in footage code-named Robin, the name she gave to the miscarried baby.
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Cassie Jaye has given consideration to produce a documentary project based on that footage, which would be named, Waiting to Miscarry.