“It’s Incredible For Our Filmmakers”: Netflix VP Lisa Nishimura On ‘The Tinder Swindler’ And ‘Downfall’ Making Streamer History
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The documentary film team at Netflix might be popping champagne corks together right about now, if Covid didn’t inhibit the whole in-person office scenario.
They’ve got a lot to celebrate.For the third week in a row, The Tinder Swindler – the true-life story of a serial fraudster and the women he ensnared – has claimed the top spot on the Netflix list of its most popular films worldwide.
It’s the first documentary to achieve that distinction. Not only that, another documentary cracked the Netflix top 10 this week, Rory Kennedy’s chilling expose Downfall: The Case Against Boeing.“It’s incredible for our filmmakers, our documentarians,” Lisa Nishimura, Netflix’s VP of documentary and independent film, tells Deadline in an exclusive interview. “To be in a place where we have two of our films and two of our filmmakers in the top 10 of film — not just documentary film but all of film — it’s really exciting.”The Tinder Swindler, directed by Felicity Morris, racked up 34.5 million viewing hours in the past week, outpointing the number 2 film on the list, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which accumulated 29.2 million viewing hours.
Testifying to the global appeal of the film, it was number one in places as disparate as Argentina, Venezuela, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Russia, Israel, Kuwait, Nigeria, and South Africa, among many other countries.International intrigue is woven throughout The Tinder Swindler.
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