| Part IV |
Conversations About Story
Many documentary filmmakers, including those interviewed for this book, work in a range of job capacities and film styles, so identifying any one of them with any one type of storytelling is difficult. With that said, there are some organizing principles behind the following conversations:
Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan (Massachusetts) were asked about their two feature-length documentaries, Troublesome Creek and So Much So Fast, which they describe as “nonfiction novels.”
Victoria Bruce and Karin Hayes (Maryland and New York) were asked about their first collaboration, The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt, a feature-length documentary that aired on HBO’s Cinemax.
Ric Burns (New York) was asked about his experiences ...
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