Ryan on WNYC, this is how we're going to end today, a conversation about inheritance

and your calls with respect to your family

and with respect to our country.

Why? Because there's a new documentary

that deals with this.

For some families' conversations about money

are harder than for others.

For filmmaker and cinematographer,

Justin Shine,

those conversations became the basis of his new documentary.

The thing is, he grew up in a wealthy household. His father, Harvey Shine, was the president of

Sony, Sony Corporation of America in the 1970s, and before that worked at Columbia Records

during a pivotal era in the music industry. But later in life,

the film says Harvey became increasingly focused on reducing his taxes, especially the estate tax.

So Justin's new film, called Death and Taxes, explores their relationship and the values

that he and his father did not share alongside a broader look

at inherited wealth in America. The documentary includes interviews with economists and political

figures on both sides of the debate. Paul Krugman, Grover Norquist, Derek Hamilton, Matthew

Desmond, Frank Luntz, others. It's a personal story, but of course it opens up bigger questions

about how we tax inherited wealth and how that ties into the larger conversation about inequality

in this country. Death and taxes opens today in Manhattan at the IFC Center. Justin Shine,

welcome to WNYC. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.

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