Netflix pays record sum for a documentary about female politicians

Strömningsjätten went winning out of the bidding war if Rachel Lear's film, which, inter alia, was financed via a crowdfundingkampanj and earlier this week was awarded the audience award at the festival.

the Documentary ”Knock down the house” follows four women with a progressive agenda, all of which challenged the incumbent male politicians in the autumn mellanårsval in the united states.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who later was elected as the youngest member of all time in the U.S. congress. The 29-year-old democrat from the Bronx in New York city conducted a successful gräsrotskampanj and has become a political phenomenon in the united states – Ocasio-Cortez, for example, has millions of followers on social media.

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That the several documentaries sold at the Sundance in the last year was a huge success, for example, ”Won't you be my neighbor?” and ”RBG”, can be an explanation for this year's dokumentärboom among the distributors, write the Deadline.

Nisha Ganatras ”Late night”, script by Mindy Kaling, was this year open the festival in Sundance. The film festival ended at the weekend has had an unusually high proportion of female filmmakers.

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