After leaving the acting field, Jaye stayed in films, but as a
documentary producer, director, and editor. She formed Jaye Bird Productions, a film production company, in 2008. Her mother is her production partner.
Daddy I Do includes interviews with the founder of the
Silver Ring Thing Denny Pattyn, feminist writer
Amanda Marcotte, and
Douglas Kirby. The film discusses personal stories from women facing
teenage pregnancy, single motherhood,
abortion and
sexual assault.
Bust magazine praised "Jaye for exposing the truth about abstinence-only programs, the stories of teenagers who buy into it, and its consequences". In December 2018, Jaye published
Daddy I Do on her channel on YouTube.
The Right to Love: An American Family (2012) Jaye directed and produced her second feature documentary film
The Right to Love: An American Family in 2012. The film chronicles a family known as "Gay Family Values" on
YouTube in the aftermath of
2008 California Proposition 8. The film was screened at the
Frameline Film Festival. In December 2018, Jaye published
The Right to Love on her channel on YouTube.
The Red Pill (2016) Jaye directed and produced the 2016 American documentary film
The Red Pill about the
men's rights movement. Jaye spent a year interviewing men's rights figures, such as Paul Elam, founder of
A Voice for Men; Harry Crouch, president of the
National Coalition for Men;
Warren Farrell, author of
The Myth of Male Power; and
Erin Pizzey, who started the first domestic violence shelter for men in the modern world. She interviewed critics of the movement, such as
Ms. magazine executive editor
Katherine Spillar, and sociologist
Michael Kimmel. Jaye initially relied on her own money to fund the film, as well as that from her mother and her boyfriend, view of the men's rights movement. At the end of the film, Jaye states that she no longer identifies as a
feminist,
Criticisms and backlash Jaye's effort for the Kickstarter project was strongly criticized by some feminists including David Futrelle, who runs a website called
We Hunted the Mammoth and who said it looked like propaganda. The film had
screenings canceled in Australia following petitions, protests, and threats against those holding the screening. David Futrelle accused Jaye of soliciting funding from members of the men's rights movement, which she portrays sympathetically. She has said that the suggestion the film was funded by MRAs (men's rights activists) is "a common lie that keeps spreading," In a 2017 interview with Australian TV show
The Project, when
Carrie Bickmore asked her about a recent high-profile murder of Luke Batty by his father, Jaye emphasized that it was a specific example of a
male victim of
domestic abuse, where
Waleed Aly tersely rebuts, "that's the lesson you took from that?" (from the murder). Jaye responded that "we have to distinguish between victims and perpetrators, or criminals, because a boy who is being abused by a parental figure, that is a boy that deserves care and compassion and resources if he needs to find help." Later she resumed interviews but made her own recording of the discussions, as she stated she had been "misquoted so much". In an interview on the Australian TV show
Weekend Sunrise, Jaye asked the show's hosts
Andrew O'Keefe and
Monique Wright directly "Did you see the film?". The co-hosts said they had not. After receiving a wave of comments critical of the hosts and supporting Jaye,
Sunrise removed the video of the interview from their
Facebook page. Jaye uploaded the interview to her own page, where it was removed shortly after as a copyright violation. When asked about the removal from Facebook a spokeswoman for the Seven network which produces
Sunrise declined to comment. Jaye also posted screenshots of emails to prove that ''Sunrise's'' producer had received a copy of the film a month before the interview and plenty of time for the hosts to have watched it. This was to disprove the hosts' claim that they did not receive a copy of the film. ==Filmography==