Why a Four-Hour Elon Musk Doc Sold Out the Ojai Film Festival
Newsweek · H. Alan Scott ·
“It is a movie of its time in a topic that is really happening.”
In a tiny community a little more than an hour north of Los Angeles, a sold-out crowd showed up to watch a four-hour documentary about Elon Musk. That should demonstrate the popularity of documentaries right now thanks to films like Alex Gibney’s Musk and You Can See Everything from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheimer.
"Docs do really well in Ojai," David Berger, owner of the Ojai Playhouse, told Newsweek. "There is just a lot of interest in real topics.”
Musk was the opening night selection of the Ojai Documentary Film Festival. The week-long festival, presented by Berger’s Ojai Playhouse and Hotel El Roblar, showed weighty films like the previously mentioned Musk and You Can See Everything, but also films like Nuisance Bear, Jean-Michel Basquiat and a special event with The Queen of Versailles’ director Lauren Greenfield.
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