Katzenberg has the entertainment industry credibility, while Quibi CEO Meg Whitman, a former president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and eBay, enjoys comparable influence in the business sector. Selling the idea of a streaming service that won’t be compatible with desktop computers or built into televisions would probably be next to impossible for anyone else. Katzenberg, the former Walt Disney Studios chairman and DreamWorks Animation co-founder, has an impressive industry track record and his words carry considerable weight. The strongest selling point - for investors and other industry insiders, anyway - is probably less about the platform itself and more about the duo selling it. Indie Wire’s Tyler Hersko analyzes the design of Quibi, an upcoming short-form streaming service, and the influence its founder and CEO have as the list of prominent investors grows. Facebook, Google and Twitter are also under the gun for allowing hate speech on their platforms - and simultaneously being criticized for de-platforming conservatives who are deemed hateful - so there ought to be plenty of debate on the matter. Reviews create momentum that shape economic and intellectual marketplaces.įrom Paul Bond of The Hollywood Reporter offers some topics likely discussed at the secretive, off-the-record Allen & Co retreat, where many of the most powerful people in media and tech convene to discuss trends, policies and deals in the industry.īeyond talk of Facebook spreading "fake news" and sharing sensitive data with the likes of Cambridge Analytica and others, regulators on both sides of the aisle are complaining that Facebook - along with Google - is simply too large and should be broken up. Culture writers can launch careers and turn an Off Off Broadway play into a must-see show. ![]() Mexican banda music, for example, has largely been written out of mainstream musical history, despite an audience in the millions. Writing for The New York Times, Elizabeth Mendez Berry and Chi-hui Yang discuss how this affects how the work of underrepresented artists is reviewed, how the industry narrative is shaped, and how a call for a more diverse pool of cultural coverage is warranted.Īrt reviews matter because they can define aesthetic movements or dismiss them. Studies show that a majority of the most influential critics in art and film are white and male. That is why I think we will look back on series including Life on Earth, The Blue Planet, and Planet Earth as profound testaments not only to what our planet was like before the sea was choked by plastic and the animals we revered became extinct, but also to what some of us were capable of creatively. And they are alive to light, color, shape and form in ways that are both commensurate with their subject - nature itself - and like nothing else on film. They switch from the micro to the macro - from insect eggs to cloud-swept vistas - with Brueghelian virtuosity. ![]() These 50-minute programs are marvels of editing and narrative pacing. The Washington Post’s Sebastian Smee believes that nature documentaries are the greatest art of our time and "deserve to be rescued from overfamiliarity." He argues that these miracles of imagery and production are ahead of their time that will be watched in the future as the best artifacts of the present. ![]() Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around the Internet, and articles from the Documentary magazine archive. ![]() Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes.
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