Kevin Smith has a wonderful story to tell about the time he nearly made a documentary with Prince.
Recently, a Facebook friend told me to watch Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead, a documentary chronicling the life of Joe Cross, a 310-pound man on a mission to get healthy.
Nearly a dozen documentaries about famous people have been released recently or are seeking theatrical distribution in the coming months, some of them commissioned by the subjects themselves.
The film, which will follow Nye's efforts to support science, space exploration, and the fight against climate change, has now raised $723,746, surpassing the previous record holder Leonard Nimoy's son, who recently raised nearly $663,00 to make a documentary about Spock.
Earlier, in the mad pretheater crush, Gary Keys tried to maneuver Ms. Eaton Travis to a quieter table for an interview for a nearly completed documentary he is making.
Next came Phillipe Reines, Hillary Clinton's media fixer, who contacted various people at CNN, interrogated them, and expressed concern about alleged conflicts of interest generated because my film was a for-profit endeavor (as nearly all documentaries and news organizations are).
A nearly complete documentary, "Discovering Dave Spirit Captureded in Clay," from Scrapbook Video Productions in Augusta, Ga., is based partly on a smashed 1862 Drake pot that the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program excavated near Augusta.
But about eight months ago, Ms. Laing drove home for the first time in nearly 30 years, accompanied by a documentary film maker, and what she saw became prime-time news.
Ricker, 68, who died of pneumonia May 13 in Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., frequently focused on music during his nearly four-decade career as a documentary filmmaker often associated with another jazz lover: Clint Eastwood.
In the late 1990s he made "Perón, a Symphony of Feeling," a nearly six-hour documentary about the former leader.
"A documentary about W.W.F".
