Sentence examples for documentary background from inspiring English sources

Kosminsky comes from a straight documentary background.

In keeping with his documentary background, Mr. Kore-eda's fiction films are often rooted in actual events and personal experiences.

His cameraman, Raoul Coutard, had a documentary background, and Godard drew on Coutard's experience to shoot in the street without lights or crowd control.

The documentary background and the camera's unflinching attention to her every step, gesture and facial expression both create suspense and induce a kind of philosophical reverie.

Like Huston, Clément knew the value of an original shooting style and on this underrated black comedy opted for spontaneous, location-led photography that reflected his documentary background.

What brought White (an English director, with a documentary background) and Simon (the American writer of gritty police drama The Wire) together was a mixture of good fortune, and good budgeting.

With their documentary backgrounds, co-directors Bentley Dean and Martin Butler continue in the rich vein of dramas made by Australian film-makers who've returned from remote communities with striking "not-in-the-brochure" work, made consultatively and with an ear for local voices (including Paul Cox's Molokai: The Story of Father Damien and Rolf de Heer's Charlie's Country).

Using Channel 4's house formula for an endless number of documentaries – background music of jaunty strings, deadpan narration and interviews that edit out everything but moronic statements – the first episode followed a dire Gypsy beauty competition in Manchester and an ultra-kitsch wedding in Ireland.

I (Jason Connell, 2004) A short by the director of the 2007 extras documentary, Strictly Background, which stars Ryan Gesell in a tale about visibility in a digitally enhanced world.

What Lou and Dick told him was that if he was going to do a documentary about background singers, he'd have to call me, because I, with the group The Blossoms, was one of the first black background singers in the business.

An artist who uses nature documentaries as background while painting wildlife and is often pausing the screen to look at it as photo references is not "watching television" in the usual sense.