Dawn Porter Details How Private Funding In The Documentary Space Could Help Plug Financial Gaps – MIP TV
deadline.comStoried docs producer Dawn Porter has said private funding in the documentary space could help plug financial gaps that have opened up in today’s challenging market.
The Gotham Award-winner’s latest project, revealed by Deadline in February, is a documentary about Nelson and Willie Mandela that is part-funded by the Schultz Family Foundation.
Speaking at MIP TV today, Porter said her team at Trilogy Films is “reaching out for private funding” to finance big projects. “We will need a broadcaster but are also reaching out [externally],” she added. “I’m looking at how we make films, how budget constraints are changing [the industry] and having honest conversations with partners about how we are going to do this together.” Porter said she has spent time in recent months speaking with partners such as HBO, Netflix and CNN about “what is working for them and how their processes have changed” in the current climate.
She also talked up the growth of news studios in the more premium space such as ABC News Studios, a partner on Trilogy’s The Lady Bird Diaries.
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