Varda herself a formidable stylist was already a much more experienced documentary filmmaker; for her, the shock of Los Angeles was more cultural, more political, and more personal.
Another Australian, the director Jennifer Peedom, was awarded the best documentary prize for her film about the impact of last year's deadly avalanche on Mount Everest's Sherpa community.
The 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival held its award ceremony on Thursday, and Danish filmmaker Camilla Nielsson took home the grand jury prize in the World Documentary Competition for her film Democrats.
A reasonable person might think that certain cases of rape would be clear cut and that it would be all but impossible to blame the victim of a crime, especially one with witnesses, photographs and other documentary evidence, for her own assault.
She resigned today because of her incriminating appearance in a Web site documentary accepting cash for her party from a reporter at the official residence of Mr. Fernandes.
She wrote a proposal, got a grant, made the movie and ended up winning this year's Oscar in the documentary short category for her work, "Big Mama".
Kim Longinotto is a documentary maker known for her portrayals of women refusing to shut up and do what's expected of them: Kenyan girls opposing circumcision, Cameroonian women divorcing their rapist husbands, and abused Iranian teen runaways.
In her new documentary for HBO, "The Fence," Rory Kennedy takes just over a half-hour to demonstrate that the border fence between the United States and Mexico is a political boondoggle that kills migrants but doesn't keep them out of the country.
