Between Surviving R. Kelly and Fyre Fraud, 2019 has been a huge year for documentaries
Photo Illustration by Adam Maida; Images by M. Caulfield/WireImage , courtesy of The Cinemart/Hulu , by Steve Granitz/WireImage , courtesy of HBO , by Truong Phuong Tram/Getty Images .she had reason to check her expectations about the documentary’s potential impact. More than 20 years of accusations about the Grammy-winning musician’s alleged mentally abusive relationships with under-age women had essentially amounted to a disturbing footnote to Kelly’s career up to that point.
Hampton’s doubts, it’s now safe to say, were unfounded. The series broke viewership records when it debuted on Lifetime, in January. Many in the audience—moved by the emotional testimonials of multiple women who alleged Kelly had abused them—took action online. The #MuteRKelly movement, founded by Kenyette Tisha Barnes and Oronike Odeleye in 2017, spiked once again on social media. Concerned viewers directly and publicly appealed to companies, including YouTube and Google, to pull Kelly’s music.
The statement echoes a haunting remark from Randall Dale Adams, another person who needed a filmmaker to find justice. It took Errol Morris’s groundbreaking 1988 documentaryto convince the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that Adams had been wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. A year after the film debuted, and more than a decade into his prison sentence, Adams was set free.
Criminals and schemers have long been ripe subjects for documentaries. But the current moment seems particularly primed for a well-constructed true-crime documentary—or four. The frustrating political era, in which indictments and investigations result in few consequences, has dovetailed with the Time’s Up movement and its attention to those abused, and then silenced, by powerful people.
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