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This chapter explores the role of funders and funding in documentary film production in the UK and the US today. The chapter situates documentary making in the context of the decline of public funding in Europe and the rise of transnational streamers and VoDs as important funders, producers, and distributors of documentary film. Taking as its starting point documentary as a distinct genre and documentary making as a distinctive practice and industry, the chapter offers a typology of the models and sources of funding and finance available to documentary makers as well as an overview over the institutions, organisations and mechanisms that typically fund documentary films. It argues that these changes to national and international funders and funding models accelerate a polarisation of budgets and redefine production practices of documentary film, with important implications for documentary content, the diversity of documentary makers and the composition of the documentary industry.
Keywords: Documentary funding ; documentary industry ; Documentary making ; film finance ; funders and funding ; screen industry ; Streamers & VoDs
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