Documentary Business Reveals Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor - Anthony Kaufman - IndieWire 🔗 🎥 🍿 💵

Highlights from several recent international documentary events show that the non-fiction business is booming — but only for certain kinds of films.

Meanwhile, hundreds of other documentaries screened without distribution partners in sight, and dozens of other documentary filmmakers scrambled to cobble together financing for new projects. With more commercial entities intent on making and releasing nonfiction, it’s an exciting time. But similar to Hollywood’s cooption of indie film in the 2000s, much of that energy is going towards predictable places—celebrity-focused films, true-crime, pop culture scandals, docu-thrillers, and light entertainment—leaving everything else in the lurch, or at least, more restrained financing and distribution prospects.