The 100 Best Documentaries of All Time
By Elizabeth Jackson, Stacker News
AND Nicole Johnson, Stacker News
On 5/5/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
Great documentaries often give access and illumination to stories that would otherwise go untold. The subject of a great documentary can be anything from a single individual s life to a broader political event, and the effect of the films can be anything from uplifting to devastating.
To celebrate the genre, Stacker created a ranking of the top 100 documentaries of all time by leveraging data on all documentary movies to create a Stacker score that serves as a weighted index split evenly between IMDb and Metacritic scores. To qualify, the film had to be listed as a documentary on IMDb, have a Metascore, and have at least 1,000 IMDb user votes. Ties were broken by Metascore and further ties were broken by votes. Documentary TV series were not included.
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Copenhagen-based Final Cut for Real CEO Signe Byrge Sørensen might be unassuming and soft-spoken, but her vision, will power and fire for urgent stories have made her a world-class producer. Her documentary credits boast countless festival hits and accolades, including two Oscar-nominated films, “The Act of Killing” (2014) and “The Look of Silence” (2016), to the 2020 CPH:DOX top winner “Songs of Repression,” and recent Sundance Grand Jury Winner “Flee.”
Her company Final Cut for Real is delivering five competition entries at this year’s CPH:DOX, including Sørensen’s own-produced “President,” a Sundance Special Jury Prize winner, and new pic “Our Memory Belongs to Us,” both running for the main Dox:Award.
On a more personal note, what brought you to work in film publishing?
I started my career as a young film critic at the age of 17. Next, I began working as a festival director â I ve founded several and I ve been heading one for 15 years, namely Bologna s Biografilm Festival â International Celebration of Lives. Meanwhile, I had opened a firm providing film distribution-related services called The Culture Business. I collaborated with DreamWorks, Warner, Universal and many other distributors, especially to provide services of media promotion and third-party promotion. In 2013 that market started shrinking. Following the spread of digital releases, distribution became somehow simpler, but also much cheaper. Thus, I decided to sell the branch providing distribution-related services, Fanatic About Films, to one of my competitors, Milan s Echogroup. Then I started working with I Wonder Pictures on sourcing documentaries for the festival [Biografilm] that Italian distributors w
Andrea Romeo ⢠Distributor, I Wonder Pictures
âNot everything has changed, but we cannot predict all of the aspects of a transformation that is going to radically reshape the process of fruitionâ
We chatted to
Andrea Romeo, General Manager and Head of Acquisitions of Bologna-based outfit I Wonder Pictures. Our conversation revolved around the company s editorial policy, its recent line-up as well as its distribution and marketing strategies.
Cineuropa: Whatâs your companyâs line up? What about your editorial policy?
Andrea Romeo: Currently, our editorial policy focuses on inviting viewers to watch âcleverâ but entertaining content, with special attention paid to high-quality comedies, a much-needed genre in this moment of hardship. We d like to gift viewers with a bit of laughter, magic and optimism. The outfit was established back in 2013 to distribute
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