In other words, if certain forms of speech had been criminalized, there would have been a chance for Van Gogh, since he wouldn't have been able to do his documentary about violence against women in the name of the Prophet in the first place -- the documentary that led Mohammed Bouyeri to murder him.
He then studied at the prestigious National Film and Television School (UK) where he graduated with top marks doing his Masters in Documentary Direction.
I hope that sepia filters are still around when Ken Burns does his twelve part documentary on this.
For all of the filmmaker's candor about his sexual orientation, he never emerges as a clear-cut personality the way Mr. McElwee does in his documentaries.
If he sneaks under the radar here, catching his subjects off-guard as he has done in his documentaries, he could well be proved right.
He put down the digital camera he had been using, picked up a 35-millimeter film camera, bought some black-and-white film, rented a darkroom and set about creating scenes to photograph as opposed to reacting to things or events as he had been doing in his documentary work.
So too, Beattie admits, did his participation in a television documentary following the national team in the months leading up to Euro 2004.
The last time the channel aired an environmental documentary by Durkin it also had to hold a debate, during which Durkin's links with revolutionary Communist party politics were highlighted, leading him to declare that his personal views had nothing to do with his documentary making.
I called it the war on science because before me Sir Paul Nurse from the Royal Society had done so in his documentary for the BBC and in March the National Geographic magazine had done so on its cover story as well.
I started by doing documentaries - I made three documentaries before I made my first feature.
