Doc Distro Lit Review: Steven Zeitchik

A compilation of photographs, featuring a person wearing a dark suit conducting music, four people holding instruments, and a person in a blue dress singing into a microphone.

Are Music and Other Celebrity Films Killing the Documentary?

  • June 1, 2025
The Hollywood Reporter writers Steven Zeitchik and Ethan Millman report on shifts in the documentary field toward authorized celebrity music biographies catering to a large built-in audience, and generally, away from rigorous, artistic exploration into a figure or issue.

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