In common with almost every documentary in the Storyville strand, this was a beautifully made piece of television, combining forensic analysis with intensely moving personal testimonies.
But all that is what leads me to my main question: If you're not really letting us in, why even make this "documentary" in the first place?
While we're on the subject of the British film industry, Michael Winterbottom won the Golden Bear at Berlin in February with his outstanding refugee drama-documentary In This World, another remarkable achievement for this prolific director.
Director Saul Dibb, whose first film this is, comes from TV documentaries; his co-screenwriter, Catherine Johnson, lives in Hackney and has been writer-in-residence at Holloway prison; cinematographer Marcel Zyskind has worked with Michael Winterbottom (most notably on the semi-documentary In This World).
There are nine out-of-competition features and the same number of full-length documentaries in this category.
The last three documentaries in this season's PBS series "Independent Lens" are good examples of what makes public TV valuable.
The film, Thursday night on OWN, is not at all shy about showing the hopes and setbacks of Ms. Markvoort and her family, but unlike some other documentaries in this genre it doesn't feel exploitive.
Within the framework of TV delinearization, topic segmentation aims at splitting shows for which the notion of topic is relevant (e.g., broadcast news, reports, and documentaries in this work) into segments dealing with a single topic, for example, to further enrich those segments with hyperlinks.
