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How Alex Gibney And Billionaire Wendy Schmidt Forged A Plan To Keep “Impact Storytelling” Alive
Deadline discusses impact filmmaking with Alex Gibney and billionaire philanthropist Wendy Shmidt.
Their partnership could become a game changer for a documentary industry faced with declining enthusiasm from streamers and big distributors for hard-hitting material — the very thing for which Gibney is best known. The expanded company plans to produce scripted and unscripted content, some of it to focus on areas of longstanding interest to Schmidt — ocean health, the environment, and climate change. The Amazon founder appeared to be the savior of the Washington Post when he bought it, but he recently intervened in its editorial processes, abandoning presidential endorsements and ordaining that the opinion page would henceforth focus on “personal liberties and free markets”.
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