Trust Through Transparency: Rethinking Pay and Power in Documentary

About this episode

This episode explores how Multitude Films is creating a sustainable and fair production model in the documentary industry.

In this episode of Rough Cut, Sweta Vohra and Emma Alpert from Multitude Films—an independent production company dedicated to transformative culture change through nonfiction storytelling—dive deep into how Multitude is building a values-driven model that prioritizes sustainability, fairness, and humanity both on set and behind the scenes. Key takeaways include: sharing production budgets when hiring crew to establish fair standards across the industry and recognizing care as a crucial compon...

People in this episode

Guests: Sweta Vohra, Emma Alpert

Topics covered

• documentary
• production
• sustainability
• fairness
• values-driven model

Keywords

• documentary
• production budgets
• sustainability
• fair standards
• nonfiction storytelling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Multitude Films

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