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Why Make A Documentary?

Albert Maysles, Director/DP

(Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter, Salesman, Lalee’s Kin, etc.)

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Very simply put one of the great needs–maybe certainly one of the greatest needs in our world–is for us to know one another, to know what’s really going on in the world around us and to feel a commonality of need and purpose with other people. People of different walks of life, other nations, other ethnic backgrounds, economic statuses, different philosophies, and religions . . . We need to find a common ...

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