Elsewhere in the festival, Oliver Stone's extraordinary intimate-access documentary about Fidel Castro was reverently and un-ironically entitled Comandante.
Time has added perspective for Kids cast member Hamilton Harris, who is spearheading an all-access documentary on the real-life "kids".
In one of his last interviews, he was asked if his "prime purpose in life now" was in the area of cable access or documentary filmmaking.
Night or day, it is always there when needed, offering a snippet of real-time access, a documentary with no narrative arc, with no axe to grind, more Frederick Wiseman than Frederick Wiseman.
Backers who pledged $30 or more are also promised access to documentary videos charting its progress.
German bank BayernLB have applied for access to documentary evidence used in the ongoing High Court civil lawsuit against the F1 supremo.
And so when Laura Poitras first received a communication from someone who claimed to be in a senior position in the intelligence community, who claimed to have access to documentary evidence of illegal, unconstitutional and very, very troubling government surveillance activities, I was one of the people to whom Laura reached out for advice about what the next steps were.
"George and the team at Amazing are the perfect partners for BBC Worldwide as their slate delivers exactly what we're looking for right now – that is non-scripted aspirational lifestyle content, male-skewing factual entertainment, access driven documentaries, and high-end accessible specialist factual," said Mark Reynolds, genre director for factual at BBC Worldwide.
But I never broke faith with the idea of doing something, and in 2011, when producer Simon Chinn (Man on Wire, Searching for Sugar Man) came to me with the idea of making a 90-minute feature, and mentioned Scientology as a subject, I began thinking seriously about how a non-access-based documentary might work.
Internationally, while first-hand sources on the cultural contributions of rural schools exist, these must be accessed before documentary studies of central policies over-write such history.
