, the explosive documentary containing leaked footage of interrogations in the ongoing corruption trial of Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, is set to stream on the new platform . The film from director Alexis Bloom ( , ) and producer ( , ) will stream on the platform starting on Dec. 11 for 90 days, has confirmed.
Streaming the film will cost $12 on Jolt, which launched earlier this year and is currently also distributing Venice Film Festival entry , with Sundance jury prize winner to come in December. was the first to report on ‘ distribution. The decision comes after the film garnered distributors’ interest in international markets but not in the U.
S., Gibney tells . “It was clear that a lot of the major outlets just were nervous, radically nervous, I would say, about doing anything that was remotely controversial because it might offend some people even though it would interest many,” he says.
“The environment’s different than it has been in the past so we wanted to go with a new mechanism that I think is a way of getting to audiences in a very innovative way, because the algorithms they employ are designed to try and find viewers and not to change the content.” (Gibney, who sits on an advisory board for Jolt, appears to be referring to streamers’ use of their data to advise filmmakers on creative decisions.) Gibney adds that that some outlets would also need a long lead time to handle a film like this one, but the filmmakers felt demand for the film was urge.