Gary Kout's guest appearances

Gary Kout

The Documentary Life

Citizen44 with Mark Arinsberg

Jennifer Brea

Neill Barham

Billy Corben

Pedram Shojai

Werner Herzog

Chris Kelly

Lynn Novick

Gotham Chopra

Kelly Richmond Pope

Robert Hardy

David Hoffman

Tom Jennings

Nainita Desai

Christopher Rufo

Steve James

OwlTail

These are pretty amazing times for documentary filmmakers. Not only have the popularity of documentary films increased exponentially, not only are there far more resources available these days to doc filmmakers, but the distribution platforms that are out there are plentiful, not the least of which are the Netflixs, Hulus, and Amazons of the world. And now, these distro platforms have opened the doc playing field to the long form, the docuseries. And for episode #71 we speak with Gary Kout, producer of Netflix series, Flint Town, about the journey that Flint Town took from a short film to a full-fledged Netflix-budgeted documentary series. Topics Discussed how a short film became a full-fledged Netflix docuserieshow a distro platform like Netflix can best be approachedhow a company like Netflix decides to fund a docuseries projecthow Netflix makes editorial decisions with a filmmakertips on selling your docuseries to Netflix 5 Tips for Producing Your DocuseriesKiller PitchSizzle ReelDon’t Make Reality TVSecure the Rights to the StoryBe Friendly, Don’t Be Their Friends Related Resources° NY Times Op-Doc, Policing FlintCheck out the short film that became the Netflix docuseries, Flint Town:https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004953212/policing-flint.html ° Watch the trailer for Flint Townhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfNURrdgWTU° Watch the T. Rexdocumentary trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkHGARt38Gw Sponsors &amp; Thank You’sFree Music Archive – Special Thank You to recording artist, Dlay who supplied music for this week’s episode of TDL. You too can download his music or other artist’s music by going to Free Music Archive today! SubscribeApple | Spotify | Stitcher | Rate and ReviewIf you have found value in this podcast please leave a review so it can become more visible to others. Simply click the link and then click on the Ratings and Reviews tab to make your entry. Thank you for your support!

<p>These are pretty amazing times for documentary filmmakers. Not only have the popularity of documentary films increased exponentially, not only are there far more resources available these days to doc filmmakers, but the distribution platforms that are out there are plentiful, not the least of which are the Netflixs, Hulus, and Amazons of the world. And now, these distro platforms have opened the doc playing field to the long form, the docuseries.</p><p> </p><p>And for episode #71 we speak with <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468078/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gary Kout</a>, producer of Netflix series, <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/flint-town-netflix-review.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Flint Town</em></a>, about the journey that <em>Flint Town</em> took from a short film to a full-fledged Netflix-budgeted documentary series.</p><p> </p><h3><strong>Topics Discussed</strong></h3><h3><strong> </strong></h3><ul><li>how a short film became a full-fledged Netflix docuseries</li><li>how a distro platform like Netflix can best be approached</li><li>how a company like Netflix decides to fund a docuseries project</li><li>how Netflix makes editorial decisions with a filmmaker</li><li>tips on selling your docuseries to Netflix</li></ul><p> </p><h3>5 Tips for Producing Your Docuseries</h3><ol><li>Killer Pitch</li><li>Sizzle Reel</li><li>Don’t Make Reality TV</li><li>Secure the Rights to the Story</li><li>Be Friendly, Don’t Be Their Friends</li></ol><p> </p><h3>Related Resources</h3><p><em>° NY Times Op-Doc, </em><strong><em>Policing Flint</em></strong></p><p>Check out the short film that became the Netflix docuseries, <em>Flint Town:</em></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004953212/policing-flint.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004953212/policing-flint.html</a></p><p> </p><p>° Watch the trailer<em> for Flint Town</em></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfNURrdgWTU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfNURrdgWTU</a></p><p>° Watch the<strong><em> T. Rex</em></strong>documentary trailer</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkHGARt38Gw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkHGARt38Gw</a></p><p> </p><h3><strong>Sponsors &amp; Thank You’s</strong></h3><p><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Free Music Archive</strong></a><strong> – </strong>Special <strong>Thank You</strong> to recording artist,<strong> </strong><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dlay/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dlay</a> who supplied music for this week’s episode of <strong>TDL</strong>. You too can download his music or other artist’s music by going to <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Free Music Archive</a> today!</p><p> </p><h3>Subscribe</h3><h4><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-documentary-life/id1112679868" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple</a> | <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0wYlYHJzyk3Y7fHzDDwvmp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/thedocumentarylife/the-documentary-life" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a> |</h4><p> </p><h3>Rate and Review</h3><p>If you have found value in this podcast please leave a review so it can become more visible to others. <strong>Simply click the </strong><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/documentary-life-filmmaking-documentary-films-documentary/id1112679868?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>link</strong></a><strong> and then click on the Ratings and Reviews tab</strong> to make your entry. Thank you for your support!</p>

71 – Making a Netflix Docuseries with Flint Town Producer, Gary Kout