Media Center
2025
Rising Up With Sonali: “What If Everyone Had a Universal Basic Income?” — Sep 12, 2025
“What if everyone had a guaranteed basic income that covered their cost of living, without conditions, without means testing, without question? That’s the question an ambitious documentary called Bootstraps set out to answer over nearly a decade. Twenty individuals from all walks of life were given a basic income of $1000 a month over several years.”
2024
Andrew Yang Podcast: “Building a Better Future: The Universal Basic Income Solution” — Jul 28, 2024
“Conrad Shaw and Scott Santens, founders of the Income To Support All Foundation (ITSA), share their journey in supporting various UBI initiatives, highlighting personal stories and the challenges faced, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
2023
Punk Rock HR: Showcasing Real-Life Stories of UBI with Conrad Shaw — Jun 19, 2023
“My guest on this episode of Punk Rock HR is Conrad Shaw. He is a writer, filmmaker, co-founder of Comingle.us, and a universal basic income (UBI) researcher. Conrad is a font of wisdom about UBI, and we discuss what it is, how it works, his upcoming documentary series “Bootstraps,” and more.”
Chronogram Media: “Bootstraps” Pilot Screens in New Paltz — Feb 1, 2023
2022
BIG 2022: Bootstraps Docuseries Q&A — Oct 12, 2022
“In 2019, Filmmakers Conrad Shaw and Deia Schlosberg organized and led a national universal basic income pilot and filmed the entire process. During this session, audience members will watch the first episode of the docuseries and to ask the filmmakers more about the process for launching the pilot, the impact of the pandemic on their project, and the stories that emerged from filming. Speakers: Conrad Shaw.”
BIG 2022: Film, Stories, and Shifting Culture: Basic Income Filmmaker Forum — Jul 15, 2022
“Join this exciting conversation with filmmakers who have tackled basic income through a variety of lenses and approaches and hear more about the process of getting their films made, their hopes and goals for their films as agents for change, and the next steps for their films.”
2019
TYT’s The Conversation: Docuseries Examines Life on UBI — October 31, 2019
Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN): UBI Calculator answers basic income’s big question — October 30, 2019
Status Coup News: The Case for Universal Basic Income — September 30, 2019
The Basic Income Podcast: “Conrad Shaw: The UBI Calculator” — September 30, 2019
“If we were to fund a basic income of $1,000 a month with a wealth tax, a carbon tax, some program consolidation and deficit spending, how much would your bank account increase or decrease after your income and current government assistance are factored in? A new project, the UBI Calculator (ubicalculator.com), seeks to answer this question down to the dollar for many of the UBI plans being proposed today. The project’s creator, Conrad Shaw, joined the podcast to discuss the UBI Calculator and why he built it.”
Politics Done Right: Conrad Shaw, producer of Bootstrap documenting a Universal Basic Income project — Aug 28, 2019
“Conrad Shaw discusses Universal Basic Income. He is the producer of the documentary Bootstraps that is documenting several families receiving the subsidy.”
2018
Switch/Health + Spiero Ventures: Public Health in Action — Health, Wealth, and UBI — April 19, 2018
2017
Free Speech TV: “Bootstraps” Will Make the Case for Universal Basic Income — Jun 10, 2017
“A new documentary film project is making the argument for a universal basic income. The producers of the film, Deia Schlosberg and Conrad Shaw talk with Sonali Kolhatkar at the People’s Summit about the film, the idea of a basic income and its potential impact.”
Fast Company: What Would People Do With a Basic Income? Let Them Explain In Their Own Words — June 7, 2017
MIC: Want free money for two years? You get $250 a week for being in this documentary. — May 23, 2017
AOL: Want $250 a week in basic income? Apply to be part of this documentary — May 24, 2017
The Basic Income Podcast: “The Bootstraps Basic Income Documentary” — May 23, 2017
Fast Company: Want a Basic Income? Apply to Be in this Documentary — May 19, 2017
Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN): Interview: ‘Bootstraps’ documentary launches crowdfunding campaign — May 12, 2017
Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN): Interview: ‘Bootstraps’ film to document basic income recipients — Apr 5, 2017