Fire in Paradise with Drea Cooper

The Documentary Life

One of the most compelling, intense, and well done documentaries that I saw in all of 2019 wasn't even a feature length film. In fact, its run time was only 39 minutes.

But it was 39 mins of riveting documentary that was financed and distributed by Netflix, and it came from ZCDC's Zachary Canepari and Drea Cooper. And Cooper sat down to discuss with us, among other things, what it was like working on this incredible. film.

And speaking of run time, in our opening segment, I discuss how to decide what the proper length for your doc films might be. And how, in fact, we may be doing a disservice to our stories, by trying to adhere to a set of arbitrary time lengths.

Topics Discussed

• how Cooper & Canepari came to the decision to make this a 39 min film
• how Netflix fully supported their film change of plans to pivot to this story
• how & why the usage of people’s phone footage became a powerful storytelling device
• Drea Cooper’s recommendsfor covering a catastrophic event on film

Additional Resources

Trailer for Fire in Paradise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KNAl23NwME&t=8s

Trailer for Netflix's Flint Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfNURrdgWTU

And if you haven't already done so, you can LISTEN to our episode that we did with ZCDC's producer, Gary Kout!

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