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When it comes to the D.C. Taxicab Commission, there’s no shortage of controversy. Between their spats with app-based car-hailing services like Uber over regulation, as well as ensuring that taxicabs are up to date with meter technology that can accept credit cards, it’s like the DCTC is ripe for its own reality show.

While a DCTC reality show is definitely something someone should make, in the meantime a new documentary aims to capture the ins and outs of D.C.’s taxicab industry. Yesterday, the first teaser for the documentary, simply titled the D.C. Taxicab Project, was released. It opens with DCTC chair Ron Linton talking about regulation, and also features journalist and “The Taxi Link” co-host Pete Tucker talking about how ill-equipped the Taxicab Commission is at handling the “high-tech skirmish” between all of the new app-based companies.

“Currently there is a lot of confusion surrounding reforms to the D.C. cab industry,” director and producer Julie Espinosa tells DCist in an email. “I’m incredibly curious about how all of this will pan out.” Espinosa plans to spend the next four months following around different people to “tell the story through the eyes of independent cab drivers, the D.C. Taxicab Commission and owners of the incoming tech startups.”

At this point in the project, there’s no release date, but Espinosa says she’s in pursuit of funding and will soon launch an IndieGoGo campaign to help. “While the story focuses on the experience of the independent DC cabbie,” Espinosa says, “it is as much about the D.C. Council and the legislative operations of a capital city without statehood.”