The rest, as they say, is history: a series of acclaimed documentaries leading to a series of increasingly controversial feature films.
She also made valuable documentaries on leading figures in the dance world, notably her longtime supporter Ninette de Valois.
The best combat dramas -- like John Ford's "They Were Expendable" and William Wellman's "Story of G.I. Joe" -- managed to satisfy both demands, as did combat documentaries by leading Hollywood directors like Ford's "Battle of Midway," John Huston's "Battle of San Pietro" and William Wyler's "Memphis Belle".
Since its launch in 1988, IDFA has been one of the world's leading documentary film festivals, dedicated to the exhibition and promotion of ground-breaking creative documentaries.
Alf Kumalo was an unlikely candidate to become one of South Africa's leading documentary photographers.
Last week the documentary named two leading trade unionists as police special branch informers.
The documentary showed Griffin leading a team of researchers focussed on spotting inconsistencies, no matter how inconsequential, in Gore's statements, and packaging them for the media.
The documentary shows Andreas leading many of the members to profound feelings of oneness with God, complete with psychedelic-like visions, and a blissful sense of well-being.
A recent documentary had a leading fount of pomposity bursting with outrage and dyspepsia at my choice as though to recognise the value of the Carry Ons was to place Throne and Altar in danger.
Al Aswany was joined by the English translator of "Chicago," Farouk Mustafa, a professor of Arabic literature at the University of Chicago, and two female friends, one a film producer and the other Egypt's leading documentary filmmaker.
