The things that happen in it are heightened, but I shot it like a documentary so that the audience was not aware of the artifice.
The film's director, Lee Hirsch, was a victim of bullying himself and made this documentary so that the hidden lives of bullied children would be brought out in the open.
It accuses him of cooking his data, cozying up to nefarious gold-mining interests, causing tribal conflicts by carelessly handing out machetes, pressuring Indians to break cultural taboos and faking scenes in film documentaries so exploitative that they deserve to be called snuff films.
So that's sort of the launching point for that discussion in the documentary.
But it has more than a passing resemblance to a documentary, so much so that after a screening, one of the audience members asked where the man was now, and whether he was doing all right.
Smale was particularly aggrieved with the Sky documentary – so much so that he complained in person about it to one of the company's executive producers – as he feels Millwall's reputation for having racist fans is not only overblown but also damaging.
The next day Mr. Wright came up to them again at a brunch and said he found the documentary so compelling that he wanted to put it on NBC.
"The nature of work I was doing was primarily documentary, so all that information was an important part of the project.
In many ways, it is everything that comes after that night by the river that makes the documentary so chilling: how a girl battles a community that is obsessed with preserving honor and that sympathizes with her father, even though he intended to kill his daughter.
And of course he's particularly good at architecture, though I saw the recent BBC4 Palladio documentary, so I knew all that already – the Greek influence, the special proportions, Palladio's influence via Inigo Jones in Britain etc. Come to think of it, I think Brian Sewell did a Grand Tour programme, Brian Sewell's Grand Tour, a couple of years ago, didn't he? Let's have some new ideas.
