In March, the inaugural Nonfiction Hotlist was unveiled: 23 yet to be realised documentaries, series, and podcast projects selected to represent some of the outstanding projects deserving to be championed in today's nonfiction landscape.

Feature Documentaries…

A mere few months ago, non-fiction development and production veteran Adam Neuhaus — a former exec with RadicalMedia and ESPN Films, among others — took to LinkedIn to share his experiences as a producer pitching in a contracting market. Significantly, he closed the post with a proposal to both his network and the industry at large: to create a non-fiction version of the popular Hollywood Black List survey, which brings a curated compendium of yet-to-be-produced screenplays to industry members’ inboxes. The idea of bringing that model to a challenged documentary business generated palpable excitement…