Sport documentaries muddle grey area of storytelling vs reality

Sport documentaries muddle grey area of storytelling vs reality

As every sport seemingly gets its own documentary, Matt Readman assesses whether they’re meddling with reality. There is a famous rule in nature documentary filmmaking: observe, but never intervene. The moment the camera changes the behaviour of its subject, it stops documenting reality and starts creating it. Earlier this month the International Cricket Council investigated England for releasing a behind-the-scenes video announcing Ben Stokes’s…