Thu, 11. Aug. 2022
Ten years after the television broadcast of Prohibited documentsDaniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez had worldwide success in cinema with The Blair Witch Project. In 1999, this low-budget horror film would popularize the phrase found footageor “record (or images) found”.
The fans of Prohibited documents claim plagiarism. Director Jean-Teddy Filippe remains calm. He doesn’t see himself as a guardian of the genre, he explains, and others must have had the same idea. But he adds mischievously that his fake documentaries had been broadcast in the United States. From there to say that the directors of Blair Witch knew them…
A year before the triumph of Myrick-Sanchez, The last broadcast used the same process, without meeting the same success.…
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