White, Male Directors Dominated Early Documentary Streaming Era, Study Finds

From 2014-2020 streaming and cable platforms had 'greater racial inequities' than public media when it came to directors, according to 'The Lens Reflected' report from American University.

In front of the camera, 63 percent of documentaries’ primary subjects were white, while 69 percent identified as men. Meanwhile, 37 percent of subjects were BIPOC and 29 percent identified as women, with one percent identifying as nonbinary.

Caty Borum Chattoo, the study’s principal investigator and CMSI’s executive director, said in a statement that the study showed that “there are huge gaps in the stories and lived experiences that we get to see when we are, in many ways, still missing the lens and viewpoints of BIPOC and women-identifying filmmakers and on-screen protagonists.

The report’s authors probed, within the “social issue” documentaries studied, whether racism or insitutional racism was ever mentioned. The reason, they explained, was “the dominance of structural racism as a contributing factor to many social problems.

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