If you miss it, you can immerse yourself in the festival's three separate documentary programs.
Mr. Matney, 63, is a freelance director of photography, specializing in news and documentary programs for television.
At Showtime other documentary programs in the works include a multipart series on climate change, "Years of Living Dangerously".
Documentary programs were suddenly deemed irrelevant, and managers concluded that MSNBC needed to be on the story all the time.
The CBC, which broadcasts high-quality music, drama, and documentary programs, has played an important role in developing Canadian talent in the entertainment world.
As television critic he specialized in news and documentary programs, and often used specific events or programs to make broader observations.
Maybe it was too difficult for a fictional treatment of the paranormal to compete with talk shows and documentary programs, which are overrun with spiritualists.
But if the staple of the channel's programming, the music video, often conveys an unbridled hedonism, the channel's documentary programs can be regarded as the proverbial dropping of the other shoe.
That leaves reality programming, sports, news, cooking shows, travelogues, entertainment news shows, documentary programs about animals, antiques and crime — and that's not counting the movies and shows many of us have backlogged on TiVos, DVRs and Netflix.
Beyond this area, however, the broadcasters have lately been increasingly active in the production of live or filmed documentary programs that survey aspects of contemporary affairs not necessarily in the immediate news.
