His role in the creation of public-access television was rooted in a hope that it would become an outlet for that kind of community-building documentary film.
Brandt, an Englishman of German birth, is noted for his portraits, landscapes, buildings, documentary essays and abstract nudes.
After building a documentary and "structured reality" roster that included Britain's Youngest Grannies, Famous, Rich and Homeless and Tower Block of Commons, the company sparked a furore in January 2014 with Benefits Street, which portrayed life on a street where 90% of residents claimed benefits, but which was condemned by some as "poverty porn".
Read more about the building and documentary process at Smith and Mueller's TINY blog.
She currently is building a documentary piece about her personal journey and teases her process, The Susie K Taylor Process to people wanting to find and be their authentic self.
Volunteers have spent the past five months building the Bronx Documentary Center in Tim Hetherington's memory.
Employing the usual grab bag of documentary building blocks, Mr. Woods never quite melds his film into a compelling whole, though individual pieces can be fascinating.
In 1974 Ron Taylor was building a thriving documentary business filming sharks when he got a call asking if he would like to work on a Steven Spielberg movie called "Jaws".
At one point Joe Cultrera films the outside of a church building for the documentary until a priest comes out and puts his hand on the lens to stop him.
Building on the documentary style pioneered by Gillo Pontecorvo in "The Battle of Algiers" three years earlier, Costa-Gavras and his cinematographer, Raoul Coutard, produced the template for a thousand political thrillers to come, but the original remains more exciting and more smoothly manipulative than nearly all of its imitators.
So when a member of the Lost Zombies Ning network which is 10,000 people who dress up as zombies and take pictures and videos and connect with each other in building this collaborative documentary.
