Netflix documentaries shouldn't focus on female victims, executive says

Netflix indispensable marque documentaries astir women different than "victims and hookers", an enforcement has said, and called connected film-makers to find antithetic stories.

The cases of newsreader Jill Dando and Lucie Blackman, who were some murdered, diagnostic successful caller Netflix documentaries.

But the firm's UK caput of documentary films Kate Townsend said it's "really hard" to bespeak different pistillate stories.

Meanwhile, Lewis Capaldi, Wham!, Tyson Fury and Mark Cavendish are among the high-profile men to get documentaries.

Series pursuing David Beckham and Robbie Williams volition besides beryllium released connected the level successful the coming months.

Townsend told the Edinburgh TV Festival it was easier to picture the lives of women successful dramas than documentaries.

"It's a humanities thing, it's conscionable they're victims and they're hookers, and we conscionable request to grow that."

Real-life stories astir women doing different things oregon "being baddies sometimes" would beryllium great, she said.

Improving practice down the camera has been much successful, with women directing astir fractional of documentaries.

"But the on-screen beingness - reflecting the diverseness of what women are really doing retired determination is truly hard," Townsend said.

Earlier this month, Netflix released a movie astir Blackman, who was abducted and killed successful Japan much than 20 years ago.

In September, the streamer volition motorboat a three-part bid titled Who Killed Jill Dando?, 24 years aft the BBC presenter was changeable dormant connected her doorstep.

In contrast, caller and forthcoming Netflix documentaries person followed antheral British stars similar Capaldi, Fury, Beckham and Williams.

Netflix UK caput of documentary bid Adam Hawkins said: "What bash they each person successful common? Well, they're men."

He told programme-makers astatine the festival helium would "love" to person ideas for documentaries astir "iconic British women".

In Edinburgh connected Wednesday, the streamer announced a caller movie astir Albert Einstein's narration with the atomic bomb, and a bid utilizing uncommon footage filmed by soldiers connected the frontline successful World War Two.