Trailblazers 2010
Nancy Dubuc, President/GM, History and Lifetime Networks
NEWSBlazing trails for the way forward is a risky business; navigating and instigating change for the sake of innovation and evolution requires a combination of savvy, vision and a heaping helping of guts.
As we enter into 2011, realscreen has selected several individuals and companies from the broadcast, production and filmmaking sectors that we feel have utilized that combination frequently and with great results.
Nick Fraser, Series Editor, Storyville, BBC
NEWS“We should lift up our skirts and show more films about bare knuckle fist fighting among tribes of Irish travelers. We should have mad and crazy films.”
Hamish Mykura & Simon Dickson, Channel 4
NEWS“Inspire change, do it first, make trouble.”
David Zaslav, CEO, Discovery Communications
NEWS“To win big you have to take big swings.”
HBO Documentary Films
NEWS“Maybe it’s a certain fearlessness or maybe it’s a certain aggressiveness towards approaching a subject with no holds barred,” says HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins about her team’s approach to programming.
The National Film Board of Canada
NEWS“In terms of creation, the Film Board is driving [multimedia content production] forward in a way that very few others are, or can,” offers Tom Perlmutter.
Thom Beers, CEO and executive producer, Original Productions
NEWS“It’s all fun stuff,” says Original Productions’ Thom Beers about making testosterone-fuelled TV for the 21st century.
Mark Burnett, executive producer
NEWS“I do prefer the term ‘unscripted drama’ because to me it’s all about storytelling. I don’t even know what ‘reality’ means.”
Diane Weyermann, Participant Media
NEWS“Participant Media has given me the opportunity to combine my love for non-fiction with my commitment to inspire social change around critical issues of our time.”
Werner Herzog, director
NEWS“I know how to deal with pressure – throw anything at me and I’ll deal with it.”
Morgan Spurlock, director
NEWS“The decade began with me being evicted from my apartment and sleeping in a hammock in my office.”
Ondi Timoner, director
NEWS“Generally, my life has been one happenstance – ‘Whoa, that’s neat, let’s do that!’ – after another.”
History Focus
Marking milestones
NEWS2011 acts as the marker for two major anniversaries in American history – the Civil War and 9/11. Here’s a look at how various networks are planning to commemorate these events.
Ken Burns: Looking back and ahead
NEWSPBS is re-airing Ken Burns’ epic The Civil War documentary starting April 3. Realscreen talked to the director about the film that changed his life, and what’s on the way.
Spotlight: GRB
Risk and reward
NEWSA spotlight on GRB Entertainment, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
Global GRB
NEWSMarielle Zuccarelli, GRB’s senior vice president, international distribution, discusses the company’s growing distribution offering.
Stock footage focus
Taking stock of 2010
NEWSFour execs from the footage field weigh in on the past year and the future challenges ahead for the stock footage community and the producers who work with them.
Stock’s new dimension
NEWSAs 3D increasingly becomes part of television programming, a small number of stock footage licensors are testing the waters. But does the level of current demand warrant the expense in producing and storing the footage, or is it an investment in a 3D future?
Discovery grants Access
NEWSWith the newly launched Discovery Access, Discovery Communications is allowing producers of all stripes to license footage made available from Discovery brands.
Critical clips
NEWSThe arrival of CriticalPast.com, a new online archive portal that offers 57,000 royalty-free clips and a whopping 7,000,000 still photos collected from U.S. government agency sources, has been met with great interest from producers within the U.S. and internationally.
Spotlight: American Public Television
Growing up in public
NEWSHere, those behind the scenes and those who create content with American Public Television weigh in on its first half-century.
Editorial
Risky Business
NEWSIn the pages of this, our first issue of the new year, we highlight some of the individuals and companies that have had major impacts on the world of non-fiction television and film both in this past year and in the past decade.
Out & About
Out & About: The times, they are a-changing
NEWSLandlines, fax machines, VCRs and VHS tapes, watches and maps are among the items a recent article in The Huffington Post cited as having become obsolete in the decade that has just closed.
Biz
Executive Positions: Grant Mansfield, Zodiak USA
NEWSThis new Q&A feature, debuting in realscreen this issue, spotlights execs from all sectors of the non-fiction content industry. Here, Grant Mansfield, CEO of Zodiak USA (formerly RDF USA), discusses how the company has fared post-acquisition, Secret Millionaire‘s upcoming debut on ABC, and the company’s priorities for the year ahead.
NATPE makes its move
NEWSRelocating to Miami seems to have reinvigorated the NATPE Market and Conference, according to its organizers.
Rio Content Market ramping up
NEWSThe Brazilian Independent Television Producers Association (ABPI-TV) in conjunction with Apex-Brasil and the Audiovisual Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, is putting together the Rio Content Market, slated for March 16-18.
Audience & Strategy
Pop couture
NEWSA look at the fashion reality genre and the A-list names it’s attracting as producers and hosts.
Format Focus
NBC, de Mol and Burnett to raise Voice in U.S.
NEWSNBC, fresh from a strong performance by its a capella singing competition The Sing Off, has announced plans for a new talent contest, and this time it has brought in two big guns from the unscripted world to hit the high notes.
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Doc/Fest ’13: BBC promises to protect blue-chip wildlife series
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Realscreen Summit 2013 - NFB\'s Canada\'s Tom Perlmutter speaks during the Digital Documentary, Making it Work session