You'll also learn the basics of distribution, marketing and exhibiting, ensuring your documentary reaches the broadest audience possible.
Because the documentary reached no conclusions about whether the accusations were true, it sent viewers out debating the issue.
The documentary "reaches out to a popular audience –especially in the U.S. — and tells a story of the human face of climate change," Dr. Warner said.
The biggest reward, if the interpretive documentary reaches anything beyond art-house audiences already dyed in their political wool, will go to Hugo Chavez.
"If there was a quintessential time for you to make your documentary, reaching out to the people of the southern US reaching beyond stereotypes, beyond the packaged characterizations of the news, beyond the attempts of the current political regime here to divide us wouldn't that time be now?" .
I come from a background in the documentary industry, and I am all too aware of how few documentaries reach a broad audience.
The comparison is mentioned not out of nostalgia for such scant programming – but present-day audiences may be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed with choice, especially when there are as many documentaries reaching cinemas as there are days in the week.
But PBS stations (by virtue of their being beamed over the public airwaves) are among the preferred ways for documentaries to reach audiences, and the best route to the stations — through ITVS — appears blocked.
Tonight and tomorrow, the History Channel's four-hour look at the Russian monarchy is one of those rare documentaries that reach the highest level of television entertainment: if it were any better, it would be worse.
The documentary that reaches the screen is primarily a product not of a scriptwriter but of a producer, who has compiled it by picking and choosing slices of film and piecing them together.
