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The #FreeBritney movement has been at the forefront of public discourse since the launch of the New York Times and Hulu documentary, Framing Britney Spears. The documentary focuses on Spears’ rise to fame and subsequent journey with her “temporary” tutelage at the hands of her father, Jaime Spears. Not to be left behind, Netflix now what’s more has a documentary focusing on Spears in the works.
The next documentary (which Netflix claims to have started before the release of Framing Britney Spears) has filmmaker Erin Lee Carr at the helm. Carr has made a name for himself in the world of narrative documentary with works focused on women, true crime and virality; He previously directed the Netflix miniseries. How to fix a drug scandal, the HBO documentary In the heart of gold about the scandal surrounding doctor Larry Nassar and the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team, and Mommy dead and dear, which tells the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
Details on Netflix and the Carr’s Spears documentary are still scant, with reports noting that the film is not yet finished and no air date. Documentaries about the beloved pop star are not the first time Hulu and Netflix have gone head-to-head with competing documentaries. Both streaming giants released documentaries about the disastrous 2017 music festival that went to hell, Frye Festival, within days of each other in 2019.
Hopefully his rival documentaries about Spears’s life and guardianship will have a net positive effect on Spears’ case against her father in court and will not pave the way to a much darker reality: a new cycle in the exploitation of the life of the pop star.
