Recommend documentaries about animation or live-action film production

Post date: 2020-08-01 09:44:50

Looking for recommendations for documentaries centered on the production of a single animated or live-action film, or closely following a single studio / filmmaker over a short period of time.

We just finished watching Into the Unknown on Disney+, and even though I've never seen Frozen, the behind-the-scenes story of it's production was awesome.

I'm looking for other documentaries in a similar vein: about animation or other live-action films / shows, that follow a single production or studio closely for a period of time. I liked how ItU was filmed in real-time and felt like witnessing the actual making of a thing, rather than watching archival footage and interview footage about something that happened in the past.

A couple of other documentaries I enjoyed along the same lines were The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, which was more about Miyazaki the man but also followed Studio Ghibli and the daily activities for an arc of time. Also the 2 Player Productions documentary about Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight in-studio game jam which followed several small multidisciplinary teams developing small games from start to finish.

Do you have suggestions for anything else I should track down?

**I just signed up for the Criterion Channel so I could watch more bonus features on films and hopefully discover more stuff like this.

Thanks!

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