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Documentary Business

Documentary Business
Peter Hamilton Consultants, Inc
Documentary Business
Peter Hamilton Consultants, Inc

PBS NOVA

Sundance Film Festival Selections 2019: What are the Odds for Documentaries?

2019 January 14 / Commissioning Process, Conferences & Markets, Distribution, Documentary Budget, Foundation Funding, Funding a Documentary, Netflix, Producers' Tool Kit, Public Television, Theatrical Documentary

A Sundance Film Festival award lags only behind an Oscar nomination as a measure of success for documentarians. But what are the odds that a U.S. or international documentary will earn a slot on the program? Submissions 2,649 Documentary Features were submitted to the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, which opens on January 24: 767 were from the …

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Commissioning Process, Conferences & Markets, Distribution, Documentary Budget, Foundation Funding, Funding a Documentary, Netflix, Producers' Tool Kit, Public Television, Theatrical Documentary

PBS Science Audience: Top 5 Non-NOVA Series & Specials, 2015-17

2018 February 4 / Commissioning Process, Conferences & Markets, Documentary TV, Funding a Documentary, Network Profile, Public Television, Ratings, Uncategorized

PBS commissions Science specials and series in addition to the NOVA pipeline. Top 5 Non-NOVA Science: Update “Farthest – Voyager In Space” is a standalone special produced by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios for PBS, and not a Secrets Of The Dead episode. Context: PBS’s average primetime rating is 1.41. That translates as an audience of 2,116,000 …

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Commissioning Process, Conferences & Markets, Documentary TV, Funding a Documentary, Network Profile, Public Television, Ratings, Uncategorized