How are documentaries about drugs where they interview drug dealers who wear masks to hide their identity made? How The National Geo or Vice, for example, get in contact with those people and why they agree to get on the camera and risk getting caught?

Question

How are documentaries about drugs where they interview drug dealers who wear masks to hide their identity made? How The National Geo or Vice, for example, get in contact with those people and why they agree to get on the camera and risk getting caught?

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Answer 1

Lots of these projects start out because the filmmaker knows somebody in a publicity-averse position, say, a drug dealer or other kind of criminal, and thinks there’s a movie there. So the contact pre-exists the project.