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In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences -- good, bad, and complicated -- of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of Minding the Gap, Cameraperson, An Inconvenient Truth, and more.
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Peter Debruge Variety 11/06/2023
Tiexiera and Hall lay the foundation for an essential discussion about the philosophy and ethics of nonfiction filmmaking — a subject so vast, it easily might have spawned a TV series or media studies course (and probably still should). Go to Full Review Robert Daniels RogerEbert.com 11/03/2023
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"Subject" includes harrowing stories while leading voices in the documentary sphere offer their insights. It’s not a film out for blood, which becomes a blessing and a curse for its filmmakers. Go to Full Review Calum Marsh New York Times 11/02/2023
At no point do Tiexiera or Hall deal with their own complicity in any of this: They are, after all, making a documentary, and we get no sense of how they might answer the questions they pose to other documentarians. Go to Full Review Arlin Golden Screen Slate 4d
A worthy primer to those unfamiliar with these issues, and its resistance to simple answers allows audiences to navigate and consider their own stances on the varied material and philosophical concerns with which every documentarian has had to wrestle. Go to Full Review Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) 02/13/2024
Offers an incisive look at the new documentary boom (looking at you, weekly shitty Netflix true crime and music “docs”) and the slowly fading line between insightful docs and reality TV/hagiography. Go to Full Review Michael Atkinson LA Weekly/Village Voice 01/16/2024
The ambivalences in Subject pile up beautifully, and we can’t grump too hard on the filmmakers for posing dilemmas they can’t immediately solve. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Camilla Hall

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Jennifer Tiexiera

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Arthur Agee

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Ahmed Hassan

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Margie Ratliff

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Michael Peterson

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Synopsis In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences -- good, bad, and complicated -- of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of Minding the Gap, Cameraperson, An Inconvenient Truth, and more.
Director
Camilla Hall, Jennifer Tiexiera
Producer
Camilla Hall, Jennifer Tiexiera, Joe Caterini
Screenwriter
Camilla Hall, Jennifer Tiexiera, Lauren Saffa
Distributor
Greenwich Entertainment
Production Co
Time Studios, Lady & Bird Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 3, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 5, 2023
Runtime
1h 37m
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