Jennifer Esposito recorded herself crying while packing up the home she had mortgaged to finance her directorial debut Fresh Kills — a film she said had been percolating inside her since she was 16 years old and that she once said she did not think she could die without making.

The film earned a 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and critical praise from everyone who saw it — and still the people in Hollywood with one post and millions of followers could not be bothered to share it for her. She asked one question on camera through her tears that nobody in that industry has been able to answer — do we owe each other decency as human beings — and the silence that followed said everything about the kind of place Hollywood has become.