ABSTRACT
Fiction programming often invites the audience to escape from the real world. Nonfiction works challenge the audience to engage the real world.
While documentary filmmaking is rarely a lucrative business, these filmmakers spend their days exploring the issues of the world that matter most to them, expanding knowledge, and creating a priceless record for posterity. Nonfiction filmmaking is often described as a calling. Those who have the passion to tell true stories that make a difference and affect change report that there are few creative methods as powerful and far-reaching as the documentary form.
