Documentary: Extra Producers

Doing my research on producers i tried to find how noted producers got funding or how they made their films and was unable to find any substantial information on most producers to make their own posts  however i felt that i should at least name some producers and a little information that i could find.

James Gay-Rees

Most well Known documentary- Amy, Senna, 

Approach to creating documentaries -In his own words his success is down to timing and luck but also picking subjects for his Documentaries that people care about or that have an established. Due to his use of archive footage which are expensive some costing £4,000 a minute others a million meaning documentaries like Amy cost alot.

Funding- Due to the culture of the world James's may funding idea is to look similar films and see how much money they made in each country/territory then he would apply estimates usual half the other films, then go to agents and check out the minimum charge and see how much business you'll have to do to recoup the investments. Although Gay-Ress did say " This is a bit of a flawed model, though"

• Tom Yellin

Most well Known documentary- Cartel Land, Girl Rising

Approach to creating documentaries- Here is where issues arise as like i said some producers have nothing to go on in terms of funding but what i can find Yellin is Co-founder, President and executive producer of a company know as Documentary Group while their approach is not known, its more then likely however that they self-fund their documentaries.

• Walter Parkes & Laurie MacDonald

Most well Known documentary- He Named Me Malala,

Approach to creating documentaries- while their approach to creating documentaries is not known how they went about creating He Named Me Malala is, as they went about firstly trying to buy the life rights of Malala but when they realised no actress could truly display her presence they came to Davis Guggenheim (Director).

Funding: Due to Parkes and Macdonald running Dreamworks for nine years funding for products was not the difficult to obtain and it wasn't.