Through the 1960's and 70's, the National Film Board of Canada was based in Montreal, and its presence generated an entire generation of documentary filmmakers, among them Claude Jutra, who directed "Mon Oncle Antoine" (1971), still considered one of the finest Canadian films ever produced.
There is also a younger generation of documentary filmmakers like GatlingPictures which earlier this year released a documentary on musician Mark Sandman Curee For The Pain) and this past year have been knee deep in the heart of the political triangle between Taiwan, the U.S. and China for their new one, Tsua Lel Dan.
And yet the more fluid definition of the creative process as outlined by the Guild, whose East Coast arm was a co-sponsor of Silverdocs, a documentary festival in Maryland in June, speaks to a younger generation of documentary filmmakers, most of whom have disavowed the fly-on-the-wall manifestoes of direct-cinema pioneers like Richard Leacock.
His instruction at more than a half-dozen colleges, and his example, influenced a generation of documentary makers.
ABC said on Friday night that it had canceled "My Generation," a documentary-style drama about young people 10 years out of high school.
"In telling this story I wanted to send a love letter to the next generation of documentary filmmakers, that what you do can make a difference.
But he hopes a new generation of documentary makers will realise the importance of the era and take on the task he has shouldered.
But her revolutionary film techniques deeply influenced later generations of documentary makers and television commercial makers, keeping alive the debate over whether her talent could be separated from her prewar political views.
In the mid-1950s, Evans's protégé, the Swiss Robert Frank, brought to the table an utterly unexpected quality: gruff indifference, both to the claims of human dignity by which earlier generations of documentary photographers - Strand among them - had set such store and to any received idea of how a photograph was supposed to look.
As a result, instead of a show at Zipper Hall on Oct. 12, the festival will present a free screening of the next-generation jazz documentary "Icons Among Us" at the Little Tokyo club the Blue Whale.
