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The Documentary Makers - Interviews with 15 of the Best in the Business by David A. Goldsmith
(Published by RotoVision )
Fifteen documentary makers share their lives and passions in this
beautiful book. They talk openly about their backgrounds and families,
who and what inspires them, and the sacrifices they make to shoot their films.
All the contributors are ground-breaking documentary makers who have
dedicated their lives to making innovative and thought-provoking films.
They dedicate their lives to documenting images, history, ideas and
facts.
Each filmmaker has his or her own story about how they found themselves
making their first documentary. For passionate documentary maker Jean-
Mares Teno, making films was a way to "get around the censorship that
exists" in his home country, Cameroon. For Bonnie Sherr Klein it was
the combination of her passion for theatre and her need to do some
social good that inspired her to make documentaries.
The photographs from the interview with nature documentary maker,
Alastair Fothergill are exquisite. In the making of The Blue Planet,
cameraman Doug Allan swims with his camera under the ice in Greenland.
There's also a storyboard and photos showing Stellar's sea eagle
sequence in Russia where Alastair Fothergill and cameraman Simon King
studied the eagle's behavior for six weeks so they could get the shots
they needed of the eagles attacking kittiwakes.
The Documentary Makers is the perfect coffee table book because you can
pick it up and read just one interview and learn so much about vibrant
and interesting people from all over the world. The typography and
layout is superb and it's printed on quality paper. Don't spill your
coffee on this one, it's a work of art.
Score: 4 out of 5
January 2005
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