documentarist

noun

doc·u·men·ta·rist ˌdä-kyə-ˈmen-tə-rist

-kyü-

: documentarian

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Directed by Miguel Soffia, a renowned Chilean documentarist who has worked with BBC, Netflix and Al Jazeera, the documentary, produced by We Are South, portrays not only Millaray’s indigenous community but the social protest movement which exploded in Chile from 2019. —

Emiliano Granada, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021 Perhaps the hardest thing for a documentarist who comes from the same background as the protagonist, is to never intervene and let reality unfold. —

Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 16 Apr. 2022 The stories are genuine, and the people are real, drawn from stories researched and pre-interviewed by the documentarist Joanne Shen, Ito’s co-executive producer. —

Adam Rogers, Wired, 18 Mar. 2021 Dutch documentarist Jessica Gorter trains a sensitive and expert outsider's eye on the complex Russian psyche in The Red Soul, one of the more ambitiously intriguing films in competition at this year's IDFA in Amsterdam. —

Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2017