From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Documentary filmmaker Sam Pollard's latest offering, The League, explores the vibrant history of Negro League baseball.

The doc took 10 years to make, and that didn't surprise Pollard one bit.

It's a tough business. Making films, making documentaries is a tough business.

Unless you really have some major celebrity or it's a true crime story, it's difficult to raise the funds.

If you have a true crime story, that's almost like money in the bank.

Sam Pollard explains how his film about baseball fits in with his ongoing examination of the Black

experience in America and how

integration ultimately doomed the Negro leagues. And he explains why Questlove's involvement was key to

making the doc. But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So let's start

talking about something that we don't know much about right now, which is that the AMPTP, the studios

organization, has asked to meet with the Writers Guild after a long pause of no discussion that as we speak

right now, we don't know whether that produces anything. This is really a meeting about whether

to start meeting again. It's a lot of ambiguity. And I know that emotions are running so high right

now, you know, people I know in the business were like, is this in good faith? Is this a thing to make the writers look bad and then go back to the actors and say,

we tried, but they didn't do it?

So that's the big question.

And we don't know the answer right now.

No, but we do know.

I mean, I wrote about this a little bit in my Puck newsletter that last Friday, the CEOs and

labor VPs did meet. And the point of the meeting was,

okay, let's get back to the table and let's figure out what that's going to take and figure out how

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