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 IndieWire's Eric Kohn and Free Chol Soo Lee producer Su Kim discuss how the media market limits the impulse to create documentary content, and how their work breaks boundaries.

Discuss what you are aiming for Kim's career as a producer over the past decade coincided with the explosion of the documentary market, fueled by the streaming market.

But even as big-event documentaries about J.Lo, Tiger King, and The Tinder Swindler have fueled interest in the shape, Kim says her trends pose more challenges for the work she's about to produce said to be producing.

"They say it's the golden age of documentaries, but is it a crisis?" she said. "There's a smaller and smaller space for the kind of content I'm trying to bring to the world."

LGBTQ Nation's Nic Austin talks to Leo Baker, a transgender professional skateboarder and subject of Nicola Marsh and Giovanni Reda's Stay On Board: The Leo Baker Story, about his experience being photographed during a vulnerable time interview.

A lot has surfaced during the making of this documentary. I interviewed being marginalized in the skate world and learned a lot about myself from the experience.

It's not about experiencing who you are, but simply accepting who you are without question. I'm tired of talking about everything and I'm just ready to be.

Tired of having a fixed identity that influences your decisions? I was simply listening to myself. My biggest point is that people are listening to their children.

I want you to hear me out. I would be happy if this documentary shines a spotlight on what is happening to transgender children in our country.

In Collider, Douglas Laman addresses the tension between documentaries and feature films that explore the same subject, suggesting the need for both.

Narrative films have a high bar to justify their existence when dealing with subjects already detailed in documentaries. Honestly, it should.

In many cases, the existence of these titles feels like a counter-argument to documentary as an art form. Producers and studio executives are concerned that unless they feature well-known film and television stars, the general audience will not be able to understand the story.

That's not to say that all those feature films were made with that mindset. It's just that the rejection of documentary as an art form makes the existence of 13 Life-like particularly questionable.

Movie geeks sometimes amuse themselves and each other by rattling off competing movie examples, coincidences (or industry trend-hunting quirks). Portraits of Deep Impact, Lady on Fire, and Ammonite.

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