Cynthia Littleton Business Editor The world of documentary, news and nonfiction content is as varied as the work done by Rachel Maddow, Dawn Porter and Roy Wood Jr.
Those three are among the industry notables set to appear at Variety and Rolling Stone’s third annual Truth Seekers Summit, a daylong gathering for the nonfiction production sector to be held Aug.
2 at New York’s Second, an event location on 6th Avenue. Something else that MSNBC anchor Maddow, documentary director-producer Porter and “Daily Show” correspondent Wood have in common: a talent for examining the nation’s most cherished tropes, folklore and trending topics through a different lens on race, gender and cultural issues than previous generations of documentarians.
Intriguing reinterpretations of recent history is one of the hottest subgenres of content in both narrative and nonfiction. “Buyers are really looking for subjects that are immediately recognizable to the audience,” says Sara Bernstein, president of Imagine Documentaries, which has grown rapidly since the unit was formed in 2018. “Documentary programming in this environment has become a real business” for top platforms, she adds.
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