After years of talk about the difficulty of funding premium docs, there’s a sense of buoyancy in the documentary industry.
“Documentary has become part of watercooler conversations,” says Leo Pearlman, managing partner, Fulwell 73, whose credits include Amazon original “All or Nothing: Juventus” and “I Am Bolt.”
Although for years “documentaries were something that strange cinephiles spoke about in corners,” Pearlman says, streamers have played a big role in driving demand, and opening up new financing opportunities for producers beyond traditional theatrical and TV investors. Netflix, for example, has the breakout hit “My Octopus Teacher” and “Crip Camp,” which was produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Prods. Apple TV Plus, meanwhile, picked up “Billie Eilish — The World’s a Little Blurry,” while Discovery Plus pushed hard into the premium doc space, unveiling a slew of commissions in February.
(It’s not just the streamers, though: Last year...
“Documentary has become part of watercooler conversations,” says Leo Pearlman, managing partner, Fulwell 73, whose credits include Amazon original “All or Nothing: Juventus” and “I Am Bolt.”
Although for years “documentaries were something that strange cinephiles spoke about in corners,” Pearlman says, streamers have played a big role in driving demand, and opening up new financing opportunities for producers beyond traditional theatrical and TV investors. Netflix, for example, has the breakout hit “My Octopus Teacher” and “Crip Camp,” which was produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Prods. Apple TV Plus, meanwhile, picked up “Billie Eilish — The World’s a Little Blurry,” while Discovery Plus pushed hard into the premium doc space, unveiling a slew of commissions in February.
(It’s not just the streamers, though: Last year...
- 4/12/2021
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
The U.K.’s BBC Four has commissioned a feature-length documentary that will investigate what became of the Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s immense wealth in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, which ended his reign.
Produced by Brook Lapping, “The Search for Gaddafi’s Billions” will air as part of the BBC’s long-running documentary banner Storyville, and will follow two Dutch journalists, Misha Wessel and Thomas Blom, as they enter the mysterious world of spies, special forces and political insiders who are hunting Gaddafi’s cash.
Broadcasters Vpro/Npo are the lead commissioners, and the 90-minute film is co-produced with Zdf/Arte and Brook Lapping in association with Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion. Brook Lapping is part of Zinc Media Group.
Greg Sanderson, director of London Television for Zinc Media Group, said: “Enigmatic in life, it is no surprise that Gaddafi’s legacy is a tale of intrigue and violence.
Produced by Brook Lapping, “The Search for Gaddafi’s Billions” will air as part of the BBC’s long-running documentary banner Storyville, and will follow two Dutch journalists, Misha Wessel and Thomas Blom, as they enter the mysterious world of spies, special forces and political insiders who are hunting Gaddafi’s cash.
Broadcasters Vpro/Npo are the lead commissioners, and the 90-minute film is co-produced with Zdf/Arte and Brook Lapping in association with Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion. Brook Lapping is part of Zinc Media Group.
Greg Sanderson, director of London Television for Zinc Media Group, said: “Enigmatic in life, it is no surprise that Gaddafi’s legacy is a tale of intrigue and violence.
- 9/14/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Olympic Stadium opens doors to spectators who paid up to £2,012 to see 10,000 performers realise Danny Boyle's spectacular Isles of Wonder
East London has never seen the like of it. Heads of state, royalty, rock stars and 25,000 members of the British public last night descended on a transformed industrial wasteland to celebrate the opening of the 2012 Olympics.
Ticketholders, who paid between £20.12 and an eye-watering £2,012 to see the Olympic cauldron burn in Britain for the first time since 1948, poured through Stratford's new shopping centre at the entrance to the Olympic Park. Across the city at Buckingham Palace, world leaders including Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's prime minister, and the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, met the Queen and Prince Philip.
David Cameron, the prime minister, predicted there would be something for everyone in Danny Boyle's £27m Isles of Wonder show, adding that parts of it were "spine-tingling".
Around 240 British athletes, just...
East London has never seen the like of it. Heads of state, royalty, rock stars and 25,000 members of the British public last night descended on a transformed industrial wasteland to celebrate the opening of the 2012 Olympics.
Ticketholders, who paid between £20.12 and an eye-watering £2,012 to see the Olympic cauldron burn in Britain for the first time since 1948, poured through Stratford's new shopping centre at the entrance to the Olympic Park. Across the city at Buckingham Palace, world leaders including Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's prime minister, and the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, met the Queen and Prince Philip.
David Cameron, the prime minister, predicted there would be something for everyone in Danny Boyle's £27m Isles of Wonder show, adding that parts of it were "spine-tingling".
Around 240 British athletes, just...
- 7/28/2012
- by Robert Booth
- The Guardian - Film News
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