serve as bridges between the documentary industry and academic research to measure social impact. Act as Soft Power

Performers were pressured into signing contracts they were not given time to read, which often signed away all rights to the footage. Coercion and Threats:

The rise and fall of Troy Duffy, the bartender who sold the script for The Boondock Saints for millions. Why it matters: It is the purest capture of ego destroying talent. Watching Duffy alienate Harvey Weinstein and his own bandmates is a masterclass in how not to handle success.

That was the real story, the one no one was filming. The memo had come down from the C-suite: after this, no more $300 million productions. No more thousand-person crews. No more location shoots in Morocco or Budapest. The future was a server farm in Nevada generating infinite episodes of infinite shows, starring actors who had never been born and would never die.