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“The goal of this guide is to standardize the crediting landscape for documentary films big, small, and micro, towards clarity and parity.”
With the prominence of documentaries in a changing funding and distribution landscape, a greater variety of funding sources have been drawn to supporting independent non-fiction films. In the absence of industry guidelines, “Associate Producer,“ “Co-Producer,“ “Producer,” “Co-Executive Producer,” “Executive Producer,“ “In Association With,” “Presented by,” or “A Production of” billing, and
any combination of these credits in the main titles or end credits have increasingly been used to reflect such funding, with inconsistencies as to how and when this is done. Often, there are also graphic credits—such as static or animated logos—further complicating the array of possible attribution.
As a result, many credits have experienced diminished meaning and value, which ultimately works against not only funders, but also filmmakers, for whom credits are both recognition of their labor and essential industry currency. The goal of this guide is to standardize the crediting landscape for documentary films big, small, and micro, towards clarity and parity.
Read more about the Documentary Producers Alliance here.
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