In the early days of Hollywood, non-fiction storytelling was primarily used for newsreels or studio-sanctioned promotion. This has dramatically shifted:

Sarah bought the lot for $400. “I was looking for vintage music files,” she told this reporter. “Instead, I found the operating system for a predator.”

It began not with a journalist, but with a data recovery expert named Sarah Vance. In 2022, a talent manager named Lou Candler died of a heart attack at 64. His hard drives, filled with three decades of contracts, emails, and voice memos, were auctioned off to cover his debts.