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Too Hot to Handle: Streamers Favor Celebrities and Crime Sprees to Complicated and Controversial Political Docs
Documentarians worry that streaming buyers increasingly avoid complicated and controversial films in favor of celebrity portraits and true crime.
It’s not at all clear who might distribute these films, which follow in the footsteps of political documentaries like Michael Moore’s record-breaking “Fahrenheit 9/11” and Amazon Prime Video’s 2020 offering “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés, given retrenchment on the part of buyers. “Democracy on Trial,” a “Frontline” film that investigates the roots of the criminal cases against former President Trump stemming from his 2020 election loss, has received 11.5 million YouTube views with an average watch time of 28 minutes. Submarine Entertainment sales agent Josh Braun, who repped “Union” and is backing upcoming politically minded docs including “Separated,” says that his company is committed to finding distribution for films tackling such issues, no matter how difficult it is in the current economic climate.
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