He insisted on that, Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO's documentary division, said.
Ms. Lazin does not completely disown the influence of "Real World" on her documentary division.
HBO has asked her to create a biographical series for its award-winning documentary division, headed by Sheila Nevins.
IF there were an Academy Award for comic espionage shorts, documentary division, the jerky video gleefully broadcast last week by the Russian Federal Security Service would be a contender.
Led by Sheila Nevins since 1979, HBO's documentary division has come to provide a rubric under which the cable channel has shown its most incendiary and raunchy material.
Sheila Nevins, who heads HBO's documentary division, had this to say about making celebrity documentaries: "It's very difficult to make something that's honest and doesn't hurt someone".
She is based in New York as the associate director of development for the documentary division; he is based in Bristol, Conn., as the coordinating producer of "SportsNation" and "Numbers Never Lie," daily shows on ESPN2.
The attitude of the filmmakers to their primary subjects was summed up by Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO's documentary division, in an interview with The New York Times when she called the West Memphis Three "our guys".
In a way, "How to Dance in Ohio" (which will be shown on HBO in the fall, courtesy of the executive producer Sheila Nevins's outstanding documentary division) completes Shiva's trilogy about disenfranchisement and its effects on youth who live for the normalizing effect of love.
Dave Sirulnick, an executive producer of "The Paper" who is also in charge of MTV's news and documentary division, said that MTV tried to be attentive to the sensitivities of its high-school-age stars and took additional precautions in preparing the show, obtaining the permission of the school board and the parents of all the featured students.
The pay-cable network, incidentally, has a prized documentary division and airs dozens of them each year.
