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Short documentaries fit news platforms better than hour-long films do. Many directors treat a short documentary as a pitch for a feature — does that work? Where can you actually watch short documentaries outside of festivals? What separates a 3-minute short documentary from just a social media video? Making a short documentary about one person is harder than covering a whole event. Which feature documentaries are worth the full two hours and which should have stayed shorts? Why do film festivals put so much weight on the short documentary category? Are short documentaries the fastest way for a new director to get noticed? What can a short documentary say that a feature-length one cannot? A great short documentary tells one thing well and then stops. Some short documentaries do in 8 minutes what others drag out over 90. How short does a short documentary have to be before it stops being a documentary?

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