{"id":127866,"date":"2024-04-23T21:35:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T21:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/julie-cohen-betsy-west-on-doc-industry-impact\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T21:35:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T21:35:22","slug":"julie-cohen-betsy-west-on-doc-industry-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/julie-cohen-betsy-west-on-doc-industry-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Cohen &#038; Betsy West On Doc Industry Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"pmc-protected-embed-1\" class=\"pmc-protected-embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=PMC2644215225\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/04\/participant-shutting-down-1235887260\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1235887260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information final week<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/04\/participant-shutting-down-1235887260\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1235887260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/04\/participant-shutting-down-1235887260\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1235887260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that Participant Media could be shutting down<\/a> shocked the leisure trade, however it hit the documentary group with explicit drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGoing again 20 years, the manufacturing and distribution firm has supported premium nonfiction content material on a significant scale, backing documentaries that took on essential social and political points starting from local weather change to race in America, training, the nationwide safety state, the U.S.-Mexico drug battle, and rather more. Along the way in which, it earned Oscars for\u00a0<em>Citizenfour<\/em>,\u00a0<em>An Inconvenient Truth<\/em> and\u00a0<em>American Factory<\/em>, and Oscar nominations for a slew of others together with\u00a0<em>Flee<\/em>,\u00a0<em>RBG<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Square<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Food, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn the most recent episode of Deadline\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/doc-talk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_doc-talk\" data-tag=\"doc-talk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doc Talk<\/a> podcast, we focus on the developments at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/participant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_participant\" data-tag=\"participant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Participant<\/a> and what they imply for a nonfiction area already been reeling from a sluggish acquisition market and slashed budgets at streamers. Our friends are Oscar-nominated filmmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/betsy-west\/\" id=\"auto-tag_betsy-west\" data-tag=\"betsy-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betsy West<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/julie-cohen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_julie-cohen\" data-tag=\"julie-cohen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julie Cohen<\/a>, administrators of two acclaimed Participant documentaries:\u00a0<em>RBG<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>My Name Is Pauli Murray<\/em>. Cohen says phrase of Participant closing left her Facebook feed plagued by \u201clittle \u2018broken-heart\u2019 emojis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWest and Cohen are uniquely certified to touch upon the state of documentary movie not solely due to their relationship with Participant, the success of their movies\u00a0<em>RBG<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Julia<\/em>,\u00a0<em>My Name Is Pauli Murray<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Gabby Giffords Won\u2019t Back Down<\/em>, but additionally their connection to CNN Films, dwelling to a number of of their movies. In 2022, CNN introduced it could cease shopping for documentaries and unique collection to save cash, a revelation that, looking back, signaled the approaching contraction of what had been a thriving documentary area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBut it\u2019s not all doom and gloom on this episode of Doc Talk. Cohen and West inform us why they\u2019re holding onto hope for the way forward for critical documentaries, they usually even counsel CNN Films might return to one thing like its earlier mannequin of documentary manufacturing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat\u2019s on the most recent version of Doc Talk, co-hosted by Oscar winner John Ridley and Matt Carey, Deadline\u2019s documentary editor. Doc Talk is a manufacturing of Deadline and Ridley\u2019s N\u014d Studios, offered with assist from National Geographic Documentary Films. Doc Talk is a 2024 Webby Awards honoree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tListen to the episode above or on main podcast platforms together with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fshow%2F6RTnLdlxMHrhWh3Cx3YP1a&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cpatrickhipes%40deadline.com%7Ca7fb3f3386d84558790a08dc63d04a9d%7Ce950f25546e44144a778a6ff4f557492%7C0%7C0%7C638494993490701165%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=V9DIPA1xzvDbhmn3OVfZ9bAkuPbHnvAWLKw7xJ48fEU%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iheart.com%2Fpodcast%2F269-doc-talk-a-deadline-and-n-123087810%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cpatrickhipes%40deadline.com%7Ca7fb3f3386d84558790a08dc63d04a9d%7Ce950f25546e44144a778a6ff4f557492%7C0%7C0%7C638494993490715995%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=AS%2BHWdo85WIQg0MmwZ9qbypfZRSU411fqKuDwaz6Utc%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">iHeart<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Fdoc-talk-a-deadline-and-n%25C5%258D-studios-podcast%2Fid1712365528&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cpatrickhipes%40deadline.com%7Ca7fb3f3386d84558790a08dc63d04a9d%7Ce950f25546e44144a778a6ff4f557492%7C0%7C0%7C638494993490727214%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=NgsIIfKYWCLv9yvnfAHUwnKtJlj0kEaMBz0aRR6gLDk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The information final week that Participant Media could be shutting down shocked the leisure trade, however it hit the documentary group with explicit drive.\u00a0 Going again 20 years, the manufacturing and distribution firm has supported premium nonfiction content material on a significant scale, backing documentaries that took on essential social and political points starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1179,1178,342,1180,830,769,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-127866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-betsy","9":"tag-cohen","10":"tag-doc","11":"tag-impact","12":"tag-industry","13":"tag-julie","14":"tag-west"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}