MSNBC is giving cable news rival CNN increased competition in the exploding documentary arena through ramped up acquisitions by a revived arm devoted to non-fiction programming. MSNBC Films showed …
“At MSNBC Films, we acquire films that are finished, or films that are in post-production or in pre-production or we’ll even come on a film in early development,” Spain adds.
In March, Jones hired Spain. Since then, Spain has acquired nine feature documentaries, five docuseries and three shorts. Besides JR’s “Paper & Glue,” they include Rachel Boynton’s “Civil War ,” Christopher Stoudt’s “Four Seasons Total Documentary,” “Meltdown in Dixie,” Field of Vision’s “The Facility,” and Nicholas Mihm’s “In the Dark of the Valley.” Andre Gaines’ “Stories We Tell: The Fertility Secret,” featuring NBC news anchor and correspondent Sheinelle Jones, will air Dec. 19 on MSNBC.
JR’s last feature length docu, “Faces Places,” earned him an Oscar nomination along with the late Agnes Varda and MSNBC Films teamed with Abramorama to put “Paper & Glue” into theaters to qualify for Oscar consideration this season. MSNBC docus typically air on the news cabler on a Sunday night and eventually make their way onto MSNBC’s The Choice channel on Peacock, the streaming service owned by NBCUniversal.
“I told them no one was going to take care of their baby like we would, and I meant it,” she says. “A lot of do a lot of films because they can, and they have the capacity to do a lot of films, but that also means that sometimes some films get lost in the shuffle. When we have a film, we are going to really take care of it and push it out as much as possible and use all of our assets to do it.”
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