documentarian
noun
a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
documentarist
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a variation of
documentarian.
Example Sentences
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An up-and-coming Australian actress, she’s best known in the US for her role in the M. Night Shyamalan renaissance, playing teen documentarist Becca in 2015’s The Visit.
From The Verge ● Oct. 3, 2017
Some years later, Malik Bendjelloul, a documentarist making films on rock musicians for Swedish television, met the South African questors in Cape Town and determined to make a film of their obsessive pursuit.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2012
This survey reveals there was more to Muybridge than motion, including his landscape photography and output as a documentarist, war correspondent and inventor.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2010
And Alain Resnais, an obscure documentarist, buttonholed some businessmen for money and flew off to Japan to shoot a picture called Hiroshima, Mon Amour.
From Time Magazine Archive
Andy Warhol's nonlife and odd times get a spiffy collage treatment from documentarist Chuck Workman.
From Time Magazine Archive
