Documentary production, distribution and audience consumption have shifted further into the mainstream than ever before, with original documentary
Distribution
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The elephant in the room is Netflix. Just ask Marc Mauceri, vice president of indie film distributor First Run Features. This sentiment is reflected
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Julia Reichert, a three-time Academy Award nominee, has spent more than 40 years giving voice to women, children, the working class and the heartland
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For the past 40 years, Icarus Films has been Jonathan Miller's vehicle for showing films that may not have found an audience any other way. If you
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By Steven Beer, Jake Levy and Neil Rosini To generate income and engage new audiences, documentary producers are increasingly turning to educational
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In 1999, Bill Clinton was president. Tablets and smart phones had yet to be unleashed on the world, and streaming was in its nascent stages as a
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In the face of perceived dominance in the documentary marketplace by such major SVODs as Netflix and Amazon, an international coalition of
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Since its launch in Australia in 2008 as a DVD distributor in the academic market, then as a streaming platform two years later, Kanopy has rapidly
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Few things are more intellectually pleasurable than a good paradox. Take, for example, documentary film distribution in the digital era. As content
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My partners and I have been making films for over 20 years. During this time the basic pathways of film distribution have shifted dramatically. The