But first in Southampton, for Southern Television, and then for the BBC under Huw Wheldon, he had shown an appetite for work, for transforming routine magazine programmes with the fresh air of real, awkward lives, and with searching documentary.
We will be searching for documentary sources which could potentially provide evidence of impact.
Channel 4 has invested in Lightbox, founded by Simon Chinn, the Academy Award-winning producer behind documentaries Searching for Sugar Man and Man on Wire; Arrow Media, a specialist in the factual programming field with credits including Channel 4's Dogs: Their Secret Lives and BBC2's Jumbo: the Plane that changed the world.
The other way is to search for documentary evidence of trees, in photos, blueprints or elsewhere.
The next year he went to England to search for documentary evidence about Marlowe that he thought might be buried in his literary patron Sir Thomas Walsingham's tomb.
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., wrote a searching book, Lincoln on Race and Slavery (2009), and hosted an equally searching public television documentary, Looking for Lincoln.
Holzman joins his urgent, searching soliloquies with documentary explorations of the city, done with a handheld camera and a tape recorder strapped to his hip.
That said, Coachella isn't out of the heritage business entirely: This week, Billboard reported that Rodriguez, the 70-year-old Detroit musician featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," will perform at the festival.
He started in 1997, with "Wrong-Eyed Jesus!" (which inspired the documentary about him, "Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus," in 2003) and has put out eight records since.
When the place is chanced upon by a young woman who works for a documentary film crew searching for evidence of environmental degradation, this accidental discovery — confusing, then terrifying, then exciting for the young woman — offers a jolt of energy, but it's not enough.
