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’
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor 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.
The goal of the meeting was to determine ways to keep funding and distributing political docs without the support of U.S. mainstream producers and distributors, i.e., Netflix, Amazon, Apple and Disney.
Attendees included Barbara Truyen, chair of the EBU Documentary Group; Anders Bruus from DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation); Lea Fels, Scenery production company partner; Christian Beetz, CEO of the German production house Beetz Brothers; Alexandre Marionneau, head of international coproduction for the Society and Culture Department of ARTE France; Geralyn Dreyfous, Impact Partners co-founder and Oscar-winning producer; producer Mette Heide, who owns the production company Plus Pictures; and Jigsaw producer Sarah Mowaswes.
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