A level Media: Analysis of Documentarians

2. Sorious Samura is a Sierra Leonean journalist.
He is best known for two CNN documentary
films: Cry Freetown and Exodus from Africa.
Takes reality television to its extreme
Becoming the central character in the films by
living the lifestyle
Breaks boundaries between audience and
product by partaking and becoming subject
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcOplqs
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3. Martin Adam John Curtis, better known as
Adam Curtis, is an English documentary
filmmaker. Works explore areas of
sociology, philosophy and political history.
Closely linked with BBC
Creates own message through the
manipulation of others words and
messages
Dialogue contradictory and sarcastic
Videos could be scene from a Marxist
Theory point of view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl0h
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4. Louis did a number of series When
Louis Met... From 2000-2002. He has
also made a number of specials for
BBC Two, such as: Louis and the
Brothel and his most common,
Transgender Kids (April 5 2015).
Made many documentaries following
all 4 of the main modes: Participatory,
Expository, Observational and
Reflexive
While following conventions linked with
the different modes he also uses direct
cinema, the act of what is shown is
represented truthfully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

5. Eugene Jarecki is an American author and a
dramatic and documentary filmmaker based in
New York.
He is a very intellectual individual and very well
known for good media products.
Eugene Jarecki is an Emmy and Peabody award-
winning director of dramatic and documentary
subjects who has twice won the Grand Jury Prize
at the Sundance Film Festival, first in 2005 for
Why We Fight (2005) and again in 2012 for The
House I Live In (2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcuStxJHv
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0atL1HSw

6. Errol Mark Morris is an American film
director.
In 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven
Lessons from the Life of Robert S.
McNamara won the Academy Award for
Best Documentary Feature.
He has the ability to connect the dots and
humanize a headline, seen in ‘Tabloid’. He
is able to find the truth behind an individual
after 30 hours of interview Donald
Rumsfeld.
Use of archival footage and interview
snippets, especially in Fog of War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2-

7. London born filmmaker, aged 45 with an
education from both Oxford and University of
New York.
Most recent work includes a new short
documentary on HBO, The Lion's Mouth
Opens, which won Cinema Eye Honors Best
Doc Short
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNlwh8
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See below her views on story telling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8WcG
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8. His most famous work was Fahrenheit 9/11 which he
directed and produced. This is the highest grossing
documentary of all time.
He also has made two other documentaries which
stand in the top 10 highest grossing documentaries:
Bowling for Columbine and Sicko
In September 2008, he released his first free movie on
the Internet, Slacker Uprising, which documented his
personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote
in presidential elections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYPvsczdXTM
Michael Francis Moore is an American documentary
filmmaker, screenwriter, author, journalist, actor, and
left-wing political activist