Just what is a fact film, anyhow?
In contrast to the theatrical release feature film, the traditional entertainment “movie,” the fact film is one designed primarily to inform and/or influence and/or inspire. A “message” picture, it sells ideas in virtually every field of human knowledge. Thousands of such films are made each year, by hundreds of producing units, at a cost that runs high into the millions.
(This is where you come in, of course. Someone has to write a script for each and every one of those thousands of pictures. In consequence, opportunities for the writer are far greater than in the entertainment film field. But more of that later.)
The feature film in most cases is based on a story, fiction. It’s ...
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