"The Battle for Marjah" enters the crowded field of Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield documentaries, where films like "Restrepo," "Gunner Palace" and "The War Tapes" have already made their marks.
And there's something going on right now in the field of documentary".
The field of documentary features was winnowed earlier by a selection process that eliminated some of the year's more visible nonfiction films, including Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" and James Toback's "Tyson".
Do you feel that popular mainstream documentaries like the Michael Moore films and Inconvenient Truth, as well as the success of 'amateur' projects like Loose Change have enlivened the field of documentary film making?
In my own field of documentary television production, the endless supply of willing unpaid interns, with or without college credit, has altered our creative work force, limiting it to those who have had the financial ability to work without pay at the start of their careers.
Ted is Theodore J. Leonsis, the gregarious and sometimes polarizing Web entrepreneur and sports-franchise mogul who, early this year, traded away his day-to-day responsibilities as vice chairman of AOL to devote more time to the decidedly less lucrative field of documentary filmmaking.
The Warriors of Qiugang is on the shortlist to receive a nomination for an Academy Award in the field of Documentary Short Subject. .
The legacy of Magnum Photos, which was created by and for photographers to sustain independent work and artistic excellence, is a beacon within the field of documentary practice.
Data from field notes, documentary reviews, observations and health facility surveys were used as supportive information in clarifying concepts that emerged during the content analysis process.
Furthermore, the data collected from interviews and focus group discussions were triangulated with those from field notes, documentary reviews and observation during the analysis process to strengthen the validity and credibility of the findings.
