Sentence examples for professional documentary from inspiring English sources

But the film views the raw sexuality of the real pornographers through the filter of professional documentary presentation.

Happenstance, and the thrill of capturing the unexpected moment, also lie at the heart of the tradition which, since the invention of hand-held cameras in the late 19th century, has flourished in the hands of professional documentary titans (Henri Cartier Bresson, Diane Arbus) and sharp-eyed amateurs alike.

There is a video diary being made by one soldier who hopes to get into film school, also an earnest professional documentary made by imaginary French film-makers, complete with French subtitles; there is CCTV footage, fictional Arab TV, blogs, and gruesome footage of soldiers being killed and uploaded to al-Qaida-style websites.

This has been made possible by the technology they use, the distribution platforms that are now available and the passion of ordinary men and women to tell the kinds of extraordinary stories that were once the domain of professional documentary makers.

Then, in 2005, several of the major professional-documentary-filmmaking groups published a "code of best practices" for fair use — stating, for example, when a news clip can be used as part of a media critique, or what to do when a song or image is accidentally captured while filming something else.

She has served as president of several professional organizations, advised documentary and film projects, and done two tours as a Pulitzer Non-Fiction jurist.

I'm a professional watcher of documentaries, but I'm also an addict.

Within each area, we interviewed key informants (including local authority lighting professionals, councillors); collected documentary evidence (including local authority plans, blogs, emails and letters to residents' associations, local newspapers and local authorities); reviewed local authority consultations (if available) and conducted focused ethnographic visits.

And what if one of the great modern French documentaries was made by a comedy actor and director (indeed, a professional clown) with no documentary experience?

More like the professional interest of a documentary maker with a curiousity for human psychology and the out of the ordinary.

(Scott) ★ 'ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD' (G, 1 39) In this new documentary that professional madman and restlessly curious filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to the blinding white of the Antarctic, where he meets melancholic scientists, brooding journeymen and various poets of the soul, along with all manner of otherworldly furry and floating creatures.