As a first-time documentary filmmaker, Dillon had the deep desire to explore a topic never before tackled on film.
A first-time documentary filmmaker is outraged by the natural gas industry's "despicable" attempts to kill his movie's chances of winning an Academy Award.
The festival's New Voices/New Visions award was won by the Belgian-French dark comedy "Death By Death" from director Xavier Seron, and the John Schlesinger award for a first-time documentary filmmaker was given to Japanese director Erik Shirai for "The Birth of Sake".
First-time documentary filmmaker Reuben Atlas captures the group's inspiring human, musical, and political evolution, viewing them as individuals as well as a "band of brothers," dedicated to each other and to their blend of jazz, hip-hop, and funk music.
It certainly wouldn't be the first time a documentary maker has glossed over the facts for a heartwarming punchline.
The first time the documentary was aired he said: "I am not sure I can live that down – being beaten by a 19-year-old girl".
It's not the first time a documentary has been made about the ballroom scene appropriated by Madonna for her David Fincher directed "Vogue" music video.
For the first time, two documentaries are up for the Golden Lion: Errol Morris's The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld, and Sacro GRA, a film about Rome's ring road.
Now Douglas Gordon Goody, sentenced to 30 years for his part in the robbery, will name the insider for the first time in a documentary set to air later this year.
Their work is revealed for the first time in a documentary on Channel 4 on Sunday night, Secrets of the Stonehenge Skeletons.
Dan Davies was a survivor who spoke publicly about Hillsborough for the first time in the documentary.
