In an opinion piece at the IFC website, documentary filmmaker Steve James -- the man behind such movies as Hoop Dreams and Stevie -- makes an argument that while we might be seeing more and better non-fiction films than ever before, we're sorely lacking in what he calls "longitudinal documentaries".
What in the name of Sam Hill are longitudinal documentaries, you may well ask? Well, according to James, they're documentaries that follow the lives of a person or a number of people over a period of years in their lives. You know -- the kind of documentaries that Steve James and his partner Peter Gilbert specialize in!
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