Bill Nichols
*An American film critic and theoretician.
*Most known for being the founder of the contemporary study of documentary film.
*He wrote a book published in 1991 called 'Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary'. This book applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film.
*In Nichols schema he identifies 6 documentary 'modes'; poetic, expository, performative, participatory, observational and reflexive.
*He offered a conceptual framework for the production and study of documentary film.
John Grierson
*A school headmaster who studied Philosophy at University.
*He began filmmaking due to a post-graduate study in the US.
*Grierson created a documentary called 'Creative Treatment of Actuality'.
*He had a great influence on factual filmmaking, he established the National Film Board of Canada. He was also UNESCO's first Director of mass communications and public information.
*Finally, throughout his career he he produced over 1000 film and TV programmes.
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