The increasingly vaster production of documentaries,\nin 2019 estimated in nearly 600 titles of different formats and the most disparate\nconsumption, can find its reason in the evolution of the traditional market and\nin the new production possibilities offered by the digital universe and a\nseries of local funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If once traditionally the training field for new\nfilmmakers in Italy was the realization of short films, today it\u2019s the making\nof reality movies. This isn\u2019t only due to a change in direction of the country\u2019s\nproduction standards that barely manages through extreme difficulty and modest numbers\nto produce and distribute short films; but also and above all for the cultural context\nthat in the last ten years has created formats and reality shows that in some\nway have managed to make the audience accept a complex and open narration without\nthe use of professional actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An increase in the digital terrestrial and satellite\nchannels offer, in addition to the landing in Italy of major international\nplayers of the documentary universe (Sky Arte, NatGeo, A&E networks), has\nled to a significant evolution of the reality film<\/em> market, referring to\na macro documentary genre that can be considered a container of the most varied\nproducts possible, linked to many different sub-genres. Thanks to the\ncompletion in Italy of the digital theater roll-out, Film Commissions funding, and\nthe success of the distribution of these titles as marketing events, this offer\nhas allowed the exhibition market to benefit from the public\u2019s interest in\ndocumentaries, fostered and cultivated by channels like Rai Storia, or OTT\nplatforms, such as Netflix and Amazon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The qualitative and quantitative growth of the product\ncan also be presumed by the number of titles distributed theatrically: in a survey\ndeveloped by Cinetel for Mia Market-Mia Doc, 272 Italian and foreign titles\nwere distributed in our country in 2017 for a total box office revenue of 5,165,070\nEuros with 693,738 viewers. In 2018, however, the documentaries counted by\nCinetel were 286 for a revenue of 8,614,655 Euros and 1,122,018 viewers; and in\n2019, the number of titles has increased to 313, among which the sensational\nsuccess of Chiara Ferragni-Unposted<\/em> that topped 1,600,000 Euros at the\nbox office for about 160,000 spectators, reaching a total box office revenue of\n8,574,458 Euros for 1,097,405 viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The numbers are certainly interesting and made even\nmore important by the fact that in Italy there is no real distribution of\ndocumentaries at a national level and, above all, there are still no specific\nresources for the promotion of documentaries with the general audience, or in universities\nand schools of all types and levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This rapidly evolving landscape in the first months of\n2020 recorded extremely significant changes also in the production market:\nabove all, of course, the long-awaited creation of a doc division in Rai called\nRai Doc led by journalist Duilio Giammaria. At the same time, there have also\nbeen noteworthy appointments such as that of Bologna Biografilm Fest founder Andrea\nRomeo as head of the doc production division at a consolidated company such as\nPalomar, and Elisabetta Savi as head of Fandango Doc productions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All signs of the vitality of an Italian market that\u2019s facing\nan increasingly complex, but also stimulating, international challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The increasingly vaster production of documentaries, in 2019 estimated in nearly 600 titles of different formats and the most disparate consumption, can find its reason in the evolution of the traditional market and in the new production possibilities offered by the digital universe and a series of local funding. If once traditionally the training field […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-domentari"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n