Netflix strikes back. After Amanda Knox, the documentary film on the murder of Meredith Kercher, after Making a Murderer, on the assassination of Teresa Halbach, and The Keepers, on the unsolved homicide of the nun Sister Cathy Cesnik, the streaming giant announces it will produce a docu-series on Madeleine McCann, the British girl who mysteriously disappeared in Portugal on May 3, 2007 while she was on holiday in Praia de Luz with her family.
The case of Madeleine McCann had an international importance and inflamed the global attention, and now even that of the investigative journalism, one of the founding principles of MIA|DOC 2017.
The audience is more and more attracted by this kind of visual storytelling, and the attention to the documented narration and to actual facts has become a specific characteristic of Netflix, capable of shaping the offer by guessing the public’s tastes and preferences.
The tendency to serialise the documentary also took hold with American Crime Story, produced by Ryan Murphy: every season is an independent mini-series telling the stories of a famous legal case and crime news with a strong media impact in the American modern history. The docu-fiction seems to be the perfect summary that combines reality, fiction and the interest of viewers in searching for the truth and the culprit.
