Bill Pryor moved to Kansas City in the late 60's as a writer-director for Calvin Productions, at that time the largest producer of non-theatrical films in the U.S., and has been writing, shooting and editing educational, documentary and commercial film and video since then. In high school he was forcibly evicted from a drug store lunch counter with an African-American friend. In college he participated in the first stand-in demonstration in the state of Texas, and 40 years later he wrote, shot and edited a documentary, "In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality," for the Brown Foundation (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954). By day he is a mild-mannered, well-dressed producer of business films. By night he loses the suit and transforms into his lifelong social activist mode, shooting and editing documentaries and narratives for Kansas City filmmakers as well as producing his own controversial work. He feels that film is the last bastion of defense against totalitarian forces and that independent filmmakers must do what the media should be doing to inform people and motivate them toward rational behavior and compassion for others. One of his current projects is a documentary, "Money Over Medicine" (working title), which will show how the corporate denial of promised health care in the Kansas City area has caused the death of at least one patient and great pain and agony for others. His doctor once asked him what he does for relaxation, and his reply was, "The same thing I do at work, only I don't get paid for it."