The dancers realised he had made docs with the Paris Opera Ballet and the Comédie Française, and were quickly convinced he wasn't an ageing satyr out to exploit them.
And there are enough runaways ("They all think they're Joni Mitchell, and he hates Joni Mitchell," Mr. Winslow says of John) to make Doc a major candidate in this story's paternity sweepstakes.
For the past 30, the Miroglio family have been making DOC and DOCG quality reds and whites here.
It's true that Broomfield's slate has been very mixed since the vérité docs he made in the 70s and early 80s, exemplified by The Leader.
Then I talked to my doc, and he made me even more anxious, 'cause he told me that if I do not look for treatment I could never have a child...I could never imagine that such thing will happen to someone like me".
He made his name with quixotic docs about Elvis, medieval animal trials and US murder sprees, and went on to direct Man on Wire, which won him an Oscar in 2009, as well as films such as 2012's Shadow Dancer.
On the question of why the stories could not have been filmed for transmission in the more normal way of factual TV, the producers accept that the buzz of live jeopardy makes the show more attractive, but also see it as an experiment in a new way of making docs about docs.
Marvelling at "the explosion – and creative flowering – of this most commercially unsexy of genres" at the Tribeca film festival last week, New York magazine's David Edelstein wrote: In this age of digital video – in which there are cheap cameras, editing software and funding to be had … the cool kids are making docs.
It seems like a useful addition to the product, and one that definitely makes docs more collaborative.
Google is also trying to make Docs appealing to those humanities majors out there by letting users to select from various bulleting styles for creating outlines and giving students ability to print footnotes as endnotes for term papers.
He made Doc Watson music.
