The documentary and its audience

Abstract

The growth in the production and promotion of national documentary is something quite acknowledgeable today and the reasons for that are manifold. But this "euphoria" sometimes hides the fact that it is a low number of viewers that these movies attract. We can argue that this is not only a documentary matter, but something that happens also in Brazilian cinema as a whole. This article intends to examine exactly such theme: documentary and its audience. The dynamics of the text is to address this problem through statistical data, conducting a thematic classification of the film and discussing to what extent we can relate the change of audience according to the choice of certain subjects.