A native of Ramallah, Christina Ganim worked as assistant producer on the documentary Speed Sisters and is co-founder of Kenz Woman, an online lingerie boutique coming soon to the Middle East.
We are two hours into a driving tour of speed traps in the New York City area, and Mr. Raskob, 41, a lawyer in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., who specializes in traffic law and is rather a fanatic on the topic of speed laws (you may have seen his star turn in the documentary "Speed Traps!" on the Learning Channel), is still going strong.
He has previously fronted BBC2 documentary King of Speed, in which he explored how motor racing has evolved on the track and on the street.
On his beautiful image- and text-filled Web site about the making of this movie (davidlynchdoc2007.blogspot.com), the video's director reveals that he shot for more than two years, an impressive stretch, especially in view of those documentaries that speed through topics as quickly as possible.
Mr. Spurlock's series has just been renewed for a second season, and will be joined by another documentary series, "Up to Speed," by Richard Linklater, the man behind the movies "Dazed and Confused" and "School of Rock".
The appearance of the driving licence is the first documentary proof that a speeding offence was committed on the day in question – and that Ms Pryce took the punishment.
In Money And Speed, a 2011 documentary by the Dutch film-maker Marije Meerman, the SEC's Gregg Berman made this extraordinary confession: "There is no air traffic control for the market… there is no one person or group that in real time sits and watches.
In a 90-minute documentary, "Racing Under Green," that Speed showed on Saturday, the winner of the race, Josh Hurley, 23, of Cooper City, Fla., won $100,000 from Volkswagen to begin his racing career; he will win another $150,000 if he lands a berth with a professional team.
The six-day event will kick off with the world premiere of Amber Fares' Speed Sisters, a documentary featuring the stories of Marah, Mona, Betty, Noor and Maysoon -- the first all-woman rally-racing team in the Middle East.
In the Netherlands, broadcaster VPRO aired its first TV and iPad documentary in January called Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box, a programme about the crash of global financial markets on 6 May 2010 caused by computerised trading.
Modern documentary filmmaking has been often defined by speed and portability.
