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How Do Political Docs Stay Alive in New Trump Era? Key Documentary Players Meet at CPH:DOX to Ponder Alternatives After ‘Streamers Went to the Right’
Key U.S. and European doc players hold private meeting at CPH:DOX to determine how to keep political docs alive in America.
On Tuesday at Copenhagen doc festival CPH:DOX, European broadcasters, funders and producers, as well as key players from the U.S. market, gathered for a private lunch at the Odd Fellow Palace to discuss the growing threats to journalistic political feature documentaries. While the doc’s Forum pitch is closed, Mowaswes did reveal that the film, about the late Columbia University literary critic and prominent advocate in the United States of the cause of Palestinian independence, will be told using Said’s voice and archival footage. Major platforms are only getting behind docs that aren’t going to rock the boat, or as one CPH attendee put it, “escapism docs.” Gibney’s “ The Bibi Files,” which chronicles the corruption charges against Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, still has no U.S. theatrical distributor after its splashy Toronto world premiere in September.
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