Subject
The impact of high-profile documentaries on their onscreen participants, in films including The Staircase and The Wolfpack, is put under the spotlight in this thought-provoking investigation.
What happens after the cameras have left and your story is in the public domain? Margie Ratliff (the victim’s daughter from The Staircase), Jesse Friedman (Capturing the Friedmans), Mukunda Angulo (The Wolfpack, SFF 2015), aspiring basketball player Arthur Agee (Hoop Dreams, SFF 1994) and freedom fighter Ahmed Hassan (The Square) discuss the painful, liberating, sometimes life-changing experience of being the subject of a documentary. In the process, Subject raises highly pertinent questions about the duty of care and ethical responsibility documentarians have towards their participants. Essential viewing for filmmakers and non-fiction fans alike. Special Guest
Margie Ratliff
Producer
Margie Ratliff is a producer and key participant of Subject, where she examines her participation in the 2018 Netflix true-crime documentary, The Staircase. After receiving her MFA from Columbia College Chicago in documentary filmmaking, she has worked at companies such as The Gersh Agency and Imaginary Forces in Los Angeles. She is currently starting the non-profit, Documentary Participants Empowerment Alliance, to bring mental health, legal, counseling, advocacy, and mentorship resources to past, present, and future documentary participants.
- Program Strand
- International Documentaries
- Year
- 2022
- Classification
- Unclassified 15+
- Country
- USA
- Language
- In English
- Director
- Jennifer Tiexiera, Camilla Hall
- Producer
- Camilla Hall, Jennifer Tiexiera, Joe Caterini
- Screenwriter
- Jennifer Tiexiera, Camilla Hall, Lauren Saffa
- Cinematographer
- Zachary Shields
- Editor
- Lauren Saffa
- Premiere
- Australian Premiere
- Genre
- Cinephile, Documentary, Filmmaking
- Company Credits
- Australian Distributor: Madman Entertainment
