Factual Features – Page 10
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FeaturesThe Chameleon: The Killing Of Ronald Platt
‘Stranger than fiction is more than just true crime and this film embodies that’
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FeaturesThe Real Fatal Attraction
‘It is counterintuitive of the genre because true-crime victims are usually female’
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FeaturesBend it Like Bollywood
‘You feel like you can’t walk away from the screen in case you miss a critical piece of information’
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FeaturesThe Pez Outlaw
‘Steve broke the law, but he was also an underdog and you can’t help rooting for him’
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FeaturesOb-docs put true crime in the shade
Analysis of Broadcast’s 100+ Hot Picks submissions reveals nearly 75% are unscripted, with just a single UK drama making the final list
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FeaturesBrink Of Disaster
‘There has always been a fascination with this genre and it hasn’t diminished’
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Behind The ScenesChasing the Rains, Sky Nature
Producer Faith Musembi on getting close to animal families during a severe drought
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Behind The ScenesHighland Cops, BBC Scotland/BBC2
Series producer Andrew Abbott explains how his team captured the realities of policing across vast swathes of northern Scotland
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FeaturesQ&A: Becoming Frida Kahlo, BBC2
Creatives behind Rogan Scotland’s doc series discuss how they got to know the iconic artist in order to tell her story through her eyes
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Behind The ScenesArctic From Above, Sky Nature
Director Olly Bootle explains why the Arctic is best explored from the air
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Behind The ScenesMurder in the Pacific, BBC2
Director Chloe Campbell explains how she directed a documentary about the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior
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Behind The ScenesAnorexic, Channel 5
Rachel Harvie, executive producer explains why allowing contributors to take the lead can create a more intimate and illuminating film
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Behind The ScenesDinosaur with Stephen Fry, Channel 5
Tayte Simpson, executive producer on how the team had just six months to send the presenter back in time
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FeaturesBest documentary programme: The Real Mo Farah
‘An important, powerful and moving film. It is a revelatory piece of television with incredible twists and turns’
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FeaturesBest specialist factual programme: Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing
‘The film’s strength is the unstuffy, non-patronising, intelligent storytelling it brings to a young audience’
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FeaturesBest documentary series: Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
‘A powerful documentary that has used the archive in a chilling way to foreshadow and tell this horror story’
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Behind The ScenesPutin vs the West, BBC2
Tim Stirzaker explains how a planned documentary about Russia foreign policy suddenly became more timely - and more challenging
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Behind The ScenesThe Territory, Disney +
Producer Lizzie Gillett on the bespoke finance strategy and collaborative approach to the award-winning documentary about land theft in the Amazon
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FeaturesRoundtable: Doc-makers stand up for right to take risks
Four winners of this year’s Grierson Awards share their concerns about the documentary space