Writer-director Cherien Dabis shot "Amreeka" in a gritty documentary style that reflects the often grim reality of the characters' situation.
Each short film, shot in a documentary style, explores a different theme.
The film is done in an engaging pseudo-documentary style, with traditional scenes interspersed with scenes of actors talking directly to the camera about themselves and their relationships.
The producers wanted to capture a fly-on-the-wall documentary style so even though I was allowed to read a script, the interview scenes themselves were improvised around a specific scenario.
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Basically the chefs were interviewed documentary style, filmed and taped, but the result was converted into these two coffee table editions rather than a film, and in most cases, the chef goes from home to restaurant to, in some cases, a workout session, in order to fully capture what makes them and their dishes tick.
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At issue is the fact that the consent agreement describes the movie as a "documentary-style" film.
Chan writes and directs with a verve and wit that make the stock descriptions "gritty" and "documentary-style" redundant.
Filmmaker Christopher Guest is bringing his humour to the small screen with a documentary-style comedy series for BBC Two.
The low-budget, documentary-style film tells the story of a group of aliens who land in South Africa and are forced into apartheid-like conditions.
The Muppets have, in many of their incarnations, sustained a certain amount of double entendre, and this documentary-style glimpse behind the scenes doesn't remove the gauzy filter in any way.
The music in a documentary-style film about Ford Motor Co. is ominous and dark, befitting the company's troubles--and the mood among the many Ford watchers interviewed in this film.
Some of the solutions are disseminated through a recently launched six-part, documentary-style DVD series on human flourishing, and an active presence in social media (approaching 1 million likes on Facebook).
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Comprising of mostly new short films, their provenance ranging from the US to Estonia, Japan and New Zealand, the movies (running from 11 to 13 January) have been sorted into six screening groups, ranging from disparate works tied together by the theme of cycling to a documentary-style tale of the late Swiss cyclist Bruno Risi.
Unlike standard biographies, this one reads like a prose version of a superbly rendered documentary, in the style of Ken Burns.
Warwick Davis had the satirical idea for HBO's "Life's Too Short, " a deadpan, "The Office"-style faux-documentary series.
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The fashion category was awarded to a documentary about the life of style icon and Vogue editor Diana Vreeland.
The BBC's The Office, which aired between 2003 and 2005, today seems almost avant-garde in its colorless style and sullen documentary format.
Following Woody Allen on a 1996 concert tour through Europe with his New Orleans-style jazz band, the documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple touchingly reveals the inextricable unity of the man and his movie persona and suggests the psychic conflicts at the heart of his great films.
His style and influence are undeniable, says Israeli documentary maker Yoran Honig(ph).
As a precocious 14-year-old on holiday from school in England, young Leacock filmed the life story of a banana, all the way from dry soil to boxed crate, edited the results Russian-style with astonishing brio and sent them to Robert Flaherty, the leading American documentary maker of the day.
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