Attempts to reduce the barrier of entry to content by intentionally producing it in a way that makes it seem low-quality have persisted since the inception of online media. Early examples of this ...

At the 2025 edition of CPH:DOX, extreme political tension in the U.S. and parts of Europe cast a cloud of uncertainty over the Copenhagen-based documentary film festival. While nonfiction films that ...

Jane Rosenthal is taking the pulse of the nonfiction feature space — and it doesn’t look good. The mega-producer and Tribeca co-founder told Variety during a recent interview that she is “worried” ...

“We know that some distributors are a little wary of picking up films with overt political subject matters and that audiences sometimes seem to be looking for lighter types of work,” says Basil ...

"Fewer places are buying hard-hitting documentaries," the Tribeca co-founder and mega-producer said. When asked how the “business” of documentary films are going — citing how the Tribeca Festival is ...

It’s no secret that corporations like Netflix, Amazon, and Apple have lost their appetite for current event documentaries that tackle politics. The good old days when streamers shelled out seven ...