The Documentary World’s Identity Crisis

The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects.

via Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/tv-documentaries-ethical-standards.html

One award-winning investigative filmmaker told me she gets regular notes from her agent — documentary directors didn’t used to have agents — about what streamers are looking for, and they weren’t the kinds of films she was used to making. “I’m getting, ‘Did anybody murder your sister, and do you want to make a film about that?’” she said.