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‘Musk’ and ‘You Can See Everything’ Show How Tell-All Docs Break Through Amid Industry Woes: MIA
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‘Musk’ and ‘You Can See Everything’ Show How Tell-All Docs Break Through Amid Industry Woes: MIA

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The box office success of A24’s You Can See Everything, the documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes from directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, underlines what’s working for doc producers these days, the MIA Market in Rome was told on Thursday.

“It’s only celebrities, or if you have a really good investigative story, that will sell. Preferably when Beyonce does the narration,” Lea Fels, partner and co-owner of Dutch documentary maker Scenery, told a panel on indie doc making. Factual films that pull the curtain back on fame or tabloid scandals are all the rage with audiences in the global marketplace.

These include Oscar winner Alex Gibney ‘s four-hour dissection of Elon Musk , Disney’s intimate Oasis reunion movie, NAZA , the politically charged Gaza documentary from Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, and the ICE documentary They’re Here from Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller.

Anna Godas, CEO of U.K.-based Dogwoof, said content aimed at streamers or U.S.…

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