Wider availability of vintage footage and a race to relevance has inspired several film-makers to pursue similar subjects
, Sara Dosa’s breathtaking documentary about the relationship and career shared by French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, is the surprise independent hit of the summer. But Dosa is not the only director to be inspired by the extraordinary daring of the Kraffts.
Film geeks will sometimes amuse themselves and each other by rattling off instances of competing films, coincidences that result in two films with approximately similar plots rolling out around the same time: A Bug’s Life and Antz, Armageddon and Deep Impact, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Ammonite. Though as of late, far more redundancies along these lines concern the non-fiction side of the film world, and they seldom have that whimsical sense of happenstance in their overlap.
The trailer for Netflix’s new Woodstock ’99, released less than a year after a similar project for HBO. An even starker contrast emerged from the dueling Fyre festival docs, concurrently pieced together by Hulu and Netflix , then released in the same week. Each one got its own “in” to access, the former interviewing con artist head honcho Billy McFarland for a substantial cash payment while the latter partnered with the fest’s digital marketing firm FuckJerry to get into their treasure trove of footage.
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