But you'll rarely catch the work of Brendan Behan, who, in the Fifties, produced plays that gave documentary realism an epigrammatic turn: 'What's a crook?
Last year, Mr. Redford and Ms. Guillemet founded the House of Docs at the festival, to give documentary filmmakers a networking headquarters and their first real stall in the marketplace.
Through this partnership with Netflix, I hope to give documentary filmmakers doing urgent and important work the chance to have their films seen immediately by audiences all around the world".
Ondříček and Forman's fruitful collaboration began in 1963 with two amusing short films, one on a talent contest (Audition), and the other on a band competition (Why Do We Need All the Brass Bands?), which gave documentary material fictional form.
A stock certificate ordinarily is given as documentary evidence of share ownership.
Herzog's involvement, and the powerful ideas he explores, has given the documentary credibility.
And rather than tell the most likely story about a character, given her documentary "evidence," the narrator often evades it with unproductive digressions or unanswerable rhetorical questions.
But some parents in the film ultimately found some measure of success that they could live with (a feat more remarkable given the documentary cameras at their backs).
Given that documentary filmmaking is itself a competitive field, with its makers vying for grants, production money, festival slots, distribution deals, awards and audiences, it's a subject that is clearly near and dear to the documentarian heart.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the documentary's title, it did pretty well, managing to trump all (non-Olympic) rivals in the 9pm hour with an average audience of 2.5 million and a 9.9% share.
