Congress required the N.E.A. to eliminate many categories of filmmaking grants, including regional grants of up to $10,000 that subsidized development of promising documentaries.
He is Josh, a once-promising documentary film-maker easing placidly into his 40s, teaching a film theory class but beginning to fear that his latest work, a solemn non-fiction film on which he has so far spent eight fruitless years of part-time work, may never get finished.
And if you're still in the giving spirit -- and it's understandable if you're not anymore (not really) -- check out the website for "Brooklyn Castle," a promising new documentary about an underserved middle school's national championship chess team.
This, surely, would be the subject matter of Hurricane Katrina: Caught on Camera, a documentary promising a first-person perspective of the storm, the floods and the aftermath of the costliest natural disaster America has seen.
Stronger dramatic fare was provided by Rewers (Reverse), a promising dramatic debut by documentary maker Borys Lankosz, tracing the effect of an encounter with communist Poland's secret police on three generations of women.
Scheeren is a promising young architect, but the documentary, made by Horst Brandenburg, does him no favours.
Borsheims has been overwhelming me with e-mails for the past seven days promoting the festivities and promising to show the PBS documentary Buffett and Gates Go Back to School as a come-on for its 28 lines of watches.
Inspired by her intrepid artistry (as well as her haute couture), The Creators Project visited Pauline van Dongen at her studio in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and produced a documentary on this promising pioneer. .
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