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Doc World Is Reeling From Oscar Nominations and What They Might Mean for the Struggling Sector: ‘There Is This Resentment Towards Certain Kinds of Success’
Leaders in the documentary community are struggling to make sense of this year's Oscar nominations and what it might mean for the struggling sector
Fox Movie” for Apple TV+ and Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster’s “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project,” a Max documentary narrated by Taraji P. Henson, were considered frontrunners. “I think that there is a backlash against streamers, and quite frankly, the larger publicity firms who are brought on for $15,000 a month and get bumps if the film they are working on gets on the shortlist or is nominated,” says Geralyn White Dreyfous, co-founder of doc fund Impact Partners. Fox Movie”) and/or a doc that was acquired for millions out of festivals like Telluride (Matthew Heineman’s “American Symphony”) didn’t get nominated is due to the dismal docu marketplace in the U.S. over the last two years.
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