Back in Episode #4, Joe and Ethan discussed the Bill Maher documentary Religulous. A two sentence exchange discusses objectivity in documentary filmmaking. The guys had differing opinions about it, but it wasn't discussed in depth.
This article over at Movie City News asks the same question:
Are documentaries journalism or storytelling, feature-length beat reporting, op-ed or color commentary -- or some combination of those, or even none of the above? Is it necessary for a filmmaker to capture both sides of a given story to be fully objective? And if a documentary filmmaker unabashedly focuses his lens only on the moments or interview bytes that tell the story he wants to tell -- or that his subjects want to tell -- has he made what can be objectively called a documentary, or has he made propaganda promoting a particular cause or idea?
Interesting article. Give it a read. HERE
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