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While corporate consolidation has led to smaller documentary production budgets and fewer indie doc sales, the demand for true-crime docus has skyrocketed…

While corporate consolidation has led to smaller documentary production budgets and fewer indie doc sales, the demand for true-crime docus has skyrocketed over the last few years. That’s good news for documentary production companies like Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus’ Story Syndicate. This year, Garbus, Cogan and Story Syndicate’s head of documentary and nonfiction, Jon […]

Story Syndicate, backed by Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan, is behind true-crime docs including Last Call, Take Care of Maya and Stolen Youth

AI concerns, media layoffs are among discussion topics at Variety and Rolling Stone’s Truth Seekers Summit

Variety and Rolling Stone have launched a digital content hub for the Truth Seekers Summit, presented by Showtime.

Rolling Stone and Variety made more news regarding their upcoming Truth Seekers Summit, presented by SHOWTIME on August 2

'Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York' director Anthony Caronna and EP Howard Gertler on working with Liz Garbus, filmmaking process

When director Anthony Caronna was pitched with making a series out of Elon Green’s 2021 book “Last Call,” about a string of queer-targeted murders in 1990’s Manhattan, he had some reservations. “I loved the book,” said Caronna. “But I passed on the project because I wasn’t interested at that time in doing true crime. My […]

Kohn's Corner: With no union for documentarians, the strikes have left nonfiction filmmakers uncertain how to be supportive and continue to work.

The trailer for Netflix's Unknown: Cave of Bones opens with the news that 1,500 bones have been discovered in a South African cave.