Accepting New Challenges: Shorter_ Cheaper_ Better?

How can networks and filmmakers respond to the changing viewing habits of audiences? As funding shrinks, and time slots for long form one-off for documentaries get squeezed, is producing shorter programmes, quickly and more cheaply one of the solutions? Can smaller budgets and shorter content still deliver complex and compelling stories? Are broadcasters ready and able to schedule shorter programmes? Three wildly varied examples dramatize the possibilities and could point to the future of the almighty doc.

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Awakening 1 of 3

duration 1 hour 1 minute

Awakening

Awakening

Awakening

Awakening

In August of 2011, months before the world became familiar with the Occupy Wall Street movement in the U.S., a handful of tents in the center of Tel Aviv sparked the…

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In My Mother’s Eyes 2 of 3

duration 27 minutes 52 seconds

In My Mother’s Eyes

In My Mother’s Eyes

In My Mother’s Eyes

In My Mother’s Eyes

There are the mums who, faced with their rebel teenagers, put up in silence. And then there are the moms who don’t mind dragging their progeny through the mud.…

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One family's face 3 of 3

duration 23 minutes 33 seconds

One family's face

One family's face

One family's face

One family's face

The Ivanovic Family: Nemanja (a student), Kristina and Luke (both teenagers) spend a large portion of their time on Facebook. Nemanja has decided to revoke Luke’s…

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