Contrasting the FARC's image in Colombia as a group that finances itself through cocaine trafficking and abductions and still plants land mines in rural areas, documentaries on state television here in Venezuela portray the FARC as an insurgency born out of efforts to combat Colombia's moneyed elite.
Because the characters' names are identical to those of the actors, "Alamar" occupies the shadowy area between documentary and feature film.
The use of reconstruction was also a huge no-go area for documentary purists, but Morris demonstrated that actors could be used without any loss of authenticity.
In the South Florida area, the documentary Into the Wild chronicled an African American family's first camping trip to the Everglades.
While industrial music might seem like a niche area, this documentary should look to illustrate just how far it has influenced the sphere of popular music, way beyond the initial clangs and fuzzes of Throbbing Gristle.
Increasingly, however, the best, freshest work is in the area of documentaries, or more accurately, where documentary techniques tell stories, true or otherwise.
This is exactly the area that documentaries should be probing – asking difficult and challenging questions through an engaging and interesting format".
Do they exist only as a social problem, penned into the segregated area of earnest documentary?
He was in the area filming a documentary, Ocean's Deadliest, and during a period of bad weather, he decided to film some shallow water shots for his daughter Bindi's television programme (Bindi the Jungle Girl).
He was smitten by the idea of exploring these other areas through the documentary form.
In other areas, the best documentary award went to Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence, putting it in contention as a strong bet for an Oscar nomination.
