Some documentaries go further and deeper than others. These do. Having low budgets and small teams, they show things and people in unusual ways. The first filmmaker tries to show the hidden face of the moon: how important people, accustomed to the presence of cameras and microphones, behave and talk when there is -almost- no television crew in sight. It gives us an unexpectedly accurate and keen understanding of the actual personalities of those people. The other filmmarker tries to show the hidden face of his own mind: he confronts the reality of a city- Miami, the northernmost capital of Latin América- and projects His own intellectual and emotional concepts on the facts and images he reports. What kind of commitment best fits public television?
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