The challenges that the digital media, film and television pose for the authors and directors of creative documentary films

Nowadays, film, television and the Internet offer an endless range of audiovisual products. New forms of communication are awakening new needs among consumers, with movie houses turning into high-end events, television reduced to a variety of formats and documentary formats themselves cropping up all over the place. And multimedia is gaining the upper hand over classic documentaries. What does all this imply for today's documentary film producers? How do they themselves feel about these developments and their work? With whom can they ally themselves? Must every film seek the big screen? Should documentaries be constructed - according to the Danish recipe for success - like fiction features? Should documentary film producers abandon the creative authors' film approach when adopting digital media, restricting themselves to delivering content? What is the outlook for today's documentary film authors and producers?