The funds and equipment that I won to develop a longer documentary resulted in sharing more about our work, more about the lives of those seeking to escape the sex trade, and showcasing our impacts in advocating for social change.
A sitcom idea turns into a documentary, which results in my becoming a board member of a public interest group, which eventually turns me into an event planner.
The documentary-like results are extremely powerful in drawing us into worlds that many of us find alien.
The documentary that resulted, "Some Kind of Monster," was a complex psychological portrait of a complex group of individuals that has also been called the closest thing to a real-life "This Is Spinal Tap" in existence.
In "Show Business," the documentary that resulted, she focuses on four musicals ("Avenue Q," "Wicked," "Taboo" and "Caroline, or Change") as they face their first performances, their opening-night reviews and their hopes for Tony awards.
But a shiny new batch of songs – including the wryly autobiographical "Late Bloomer", received warmly tonight – and a recent BBC4 documentary has resulted in a flurry of interest in this fluent and rueful songwriter, whose debt to Davies now seems obvious.
In the early sections of "Promised Lands," the documentary that resulted from this adventure, there are some very still shots — of perforated, burned-out tanks in the desert, of blackened, fly-specked corpses and cracked shoes — that attain an authority and a power as art that go way beyond anything else Sontag did in the movies.
The documentary that resulted was released today, and you can watch it in full here.
Seliger's interest in photo documentary has resulted in photographs that are limned with narrative: in the position of the hands, the forthright gaze, the shoes, the nails, the abs, the breasts, the tats, the handbags.
This two-part documentary follows the results.
