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Publicists and agents are the gatekeepers. They are paid to protect the image of the talent.
Because your audience is likely visually savvy, your documentary needs a unique style.
If you want to understand Hollywood, do not start with a textbook. Start with this entertainment industry documentary marathon plan:
These films analyze projects that went spectacularly wrong. The king of this sub-genre is Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014). It chronicles a production plagued by freak weather, animal handler deaths, and lead actors trying to murder each other with machetes (literally). It is a horror movie about making a movie.