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I am a veteran documentary film and television producer writing this newsletter to think about how to keep making documentaries during these complex times. Here we go….
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Do You Have an Idea for a Documentary? (opens the original)
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Picking WinnersMost documentaries never get made. By that I mean most ideas for movies don’t work out. Conservatively, I would say about 98% of them just completely fall apart. Actually taking a project from pitch to screen is a Herculean task that involves hard work, strokes of genius, and more than a little bit of luck. Even once you make a film, it can be a Sisyphean task just to get audiences to watch it. Let’s not even mention how hard it is to make money on it!! I’ve spent two decades maki
Toronto’s Thom Powers: Submissions Are Up, Sales Agents Are Ready, and Audiences are Showing Up. (opens the original)
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The Toronto International Film Festival in mid-September is one of the most closely watched marketplaces for documentaries in North America, and as we know buyers are not snapping up films like they used to. But that definitely does not mean films aren’t being made! In fact, the number of documentary submissions to TIFF is up this year, according to the festival’s documentary programmer, Thom Powers, who has been programming the doc line up at TIFF for 21 years.Thom Powers wields incredible powe
Freedom Has a Price. Can an Owl Named Flaco Afford It? (opens the original)
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Watch my live conversation on ‘Wild Inside’ with Penny Lane above. Read on for my fan favorite “P.S.” section w/notes on why journalism will survive AI, how to win an Oscar, Letterboxd updates, & what Netflix and YouTube have in common these daysIt’s a cold February night on 5th Ave in Manhattan. A crowd is gathering to gawk at a monstrous and oddly big bird. Could it be a pigeon on steroids? A recent arrival from a faraway land? NYPD officers arrive and plop down a cage next to it. Maybe it wil
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