In case you missed the news last week, Girl and Chocolate Skateboards' joint skate documentary Pretty Sweet has made the global rounds of premieres and is now available for download via iTunes.
Oprah's interview is part of "MAKERS: Women Who Make America," a joint PBS/AOL documentary project that tells the story of how a variety of female leaders have shaped America over the past 50 years.
And who could forget Arnold Schwarzenegger ripping a joint in the documentary Pumping Iron.
A joint venture between the documentary filmmaker R. J. Cutler and the rapper Ice Cube, the show addresses the subject of passing in the most literal sense, altering the appearance of the black Sparks family of Atlanta to become white, and the white Wurgel-Marcotulli family of Santa Monica, Calif., to become black.
The visiting joint chair professorship in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hisl is administered by the Center for Documentary Studies.
The documentary is a joint venture of Connecticut Public Television and the Connecticut Humanities Council.
Mr. Kapadia and Mr. Gay-Rees described the documentary in a joint statement as "an incredibly modern, emotional and relevant film that has the power to capture the zeitgeist and shine a light on the world we live in, in a way that very few films can".
The initiative was specifically inspired by the unedifying spectacle of the 2015 joint winner of the best documentary short award, Dana Perry, being interrupted by music just as she had begun to discuss the suicide of her son and its impact on her as a film-maker.
"Wonderstruck" marks the new Todd Haynes joint, and "Jane" is a documentary about primatologist Jane Goodall, directed by "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck" maestro Brett Morgen. .
The documentary led to a joint review by the Metropolitan police and child protection charity NSPCC, which in turn triggered separate NHS investigations.
