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‘Deadlock,’ ‘Lady Bird Diaries’ Director Dawn Porter Sketches Roadmap for Documentary Makers in Challenging Marketplace at Cannes’ MipDoc
'We have to examine how we are working, how we are pitching, who we are pitching,' Porter says. 'You have to do more work to promote your work.'
MipDoc keynote speaker Dawn Porter is coming to Cannes to discuss not only the challenging doc marketplace, but also how to work and prosper within it. The major streaming services, who were spending millions to acquire indie fare five years ago, lost interest in garnering titles out of festivals. “If you work in nonfiction film you are intimately aware of budget cutbacks and slower commissions and the soft theatrical market,” says Porter.
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