ALMOST GREENLIT

Stories from the projects that were almost f--king greenlit.

By Adam Bhala Lough

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Case File 003: I Found a Documentary Subject on Craigslist. Then Things Got Weird.

A Craigslist experiment, a $5 self-defense lesson, a suspicious trailer park martial artist, and the documentary ethics lesson hiding inside the joke.

Jun 22 • Adam Bhala Lough

They Got a Murder Confession on Camera. Why Couldn’t They Sell the Documentary?

A dying sheriff ready to tell all, a decades-old killing spree, a confession in a grocery-store freezer aisle, and the six-year true-crime project that…

Jun 20 • Adam Bhala Lough

I Almost Hooked Up With Paris Hilton

By which I mean I almost directed her documentary. Obviously.

Jun 18 • Adam Bhala Lough

The Civil War Reenactment Documentary That Never Made It to the Battlefield

Steven Leckart and I almost made a film about Gettysburg reenactors. Then COVID arrived, the shoot vanished, and the project became a lesson in timing…

Jun 14 • Adam Bhala Lough

Case File 002: Bonus Steve Hager Interview Selects

These are the select moments I cut together from the Steve Hager video to send to Jesse Atlas our trailer editor.

Jun 10 • Adam Bhala Lough

Case File 002: The High Times Magazine Documentary that went Up in Smoke

Or: What Was Hollywood Smoking?

Jun 10 • Adam Bhala Lough

Hulu Said It Was Too Small. Then They Bought It for 7 Figures at Sundance in a Bidding War.

Benjamin Berman on self-financing The Amazing Johnathan Documentary, getting passed on by Hulu, premiering at Sundance, and watching the same buyer come…

Jun 7 • Adam Bhala Lough

The Original Pitch Deck: What We Showed HBO

A page-by-page breakdown of the Mississippi River Styx deck

Jun 4 • Adam Bhala Lough

ALMOST GREENLIT

Stories from the projects that were almost f--king greenlit.