Who’s Counting? Five Pieces on Power, Ownership, and Who Gets to Tell the Story

EyeRise’s Joshua Smith curates today’s HFF TakeOver

My name is Joshua Smith. I’m a computer science student at the College of Charleston, a photographer, and the writer behind EyeRise, a Substack where I connect pop culture to systems of power. Film criticism and discussion, media consolidation, tech, and history.

I write about movies the way I think most represent the people who actually watch them. Not …