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Want to gain practical knowledge you can use in your future work? Come to this session which dissects inspiring and daring documentaries through the eyes of the filmmakers themselves: how they conceived their original idea, what obstacles stood in their way, how they overcame them, and what kind of know-how and imagination lifted these programmes to their level of quality. The first half of the session will examine a documentary that shook the core of the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. The anatomy of this American film will show what is necessary to reach the epitome of strong investigative journalism into the workings of the government without any intrusion from it. The latter half of the session will focus on surprising camera and editing techniques which rivet the audience’s attention. Those audacious documentaries from Asia enabled what had seemed visually impossible possible, opening the door to an evolution of TV imagery. This session is not designed for a conceptual debate on what should or should not be done. Instead it caters to learning what can be done from one another!