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- noun Plural form of
film-maker .
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Examples
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And with younger film-makers embarking on projects that cost just $50,000 (£30,500) to make, using ever cheaper equipment, producers such as James (from what he calls the more old-fashioned "cinema verité" school of documentary-making) are struggling to fund their work.
Steve James hails a 'golden age of documentary film-making' 2011
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But the trend has its benefits for the more ambitious film-makers he epitomises.
Steve James hails a 'golden age of documentary film-making' 2011
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The 16mm, hand-held cameras enabled what came to be known as location-based "direct cinema", pioneered in the US by film-makers such as Richard Leacock and in France by Jean Rouche.
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Documentary film-maker Danfung Dennis, who has been documenting wars for years, including the award-winning film on Afghanistan called Hell and Back, says the arrival of the Canon 5D Mark II in 2008 marked another turning point for film-makers.
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The digital, single lens reflex camera with a low price tag and a video function of "unprecedented image quality" allowed film-makers to "combine the ethics of photo-journalism with the narrative of documentary-making".
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Not so very long ago television producers and film-makers were thrilled if their projects had the "water cooler effect" – that is to say the show, the programme or the film became a topic of conversation or chatter among people in offices, bars or the home.
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For film-makers there was a shift in emphasis from the "craft of shooting" – with a wary eye on the amount of costly film stock being used – to the "craft of editing" an ever increasing volume of material.
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The Bauma has been a meeting place for groups of writers since it opened in the 1940s, such as the circle of Joan de Sagarra, a notoriously acerbic theatre critic who knew most of the writers, film-makers, singers, artists and journalists in Barcelona towards the wilting end of Franco's unloved reign.
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As Curtis finishes this exchange, he suddenly returns to self-deprecating mode: "If twentysomething film-makers look at the generation before them, they never want to be like the last lot; they should look at me and think 'What a tosser' and then try to do things their way."
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With the internet there are lots of independent documentary film-makers who are in a position to market their own films in ways that would have never been possible a few years ago.
How the internet is galvanising support for social justice documentaries 2011
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