documentarist
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- noun
- /ˌdɒkjʊˈmɛntərɪst/
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documentalista
- After years of hard work, she finally became a successful documentarist known for her impactful films.
Examples
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During the festival, the documentarist showcased her latest film about climate change and its effects on communities.
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The film is the first fiction feature by documentarist Massoud Bakhshi; it was shown in the Directors' Fortnight series at Cannes and gained generally favorable reviews.
Blog text (3) -
If Mailer's more complex intentions never really click, the film is at least admirable because of the way in which he captured everything like a documentarist.
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I don't think these documentarists are drawing the line between theists and atheists.
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Leaving aside for the moment the conclusions derived by Puiu from the example of Cassavetes and that of observational cinema about what "good films" are (as opposed to "bad films"), what needs to be pointed out is that the type of artist represented by the "observational" documentarist and the type of artist represented by Cassavetes.
Academic text (2017) -
The renowned documentarist traveled the world to capture the beauty of endangered species.
Synonyms
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A person who makes films and videos about real people, events or issues
A person who makes films about real events or people
Surface Forms
Morphology
documentarist = documentary (transparent) = document + ary + ist
Formed by adding the productive agentive suffix '-ist' to 'documentary', yielding a person associated with making documentaries.
Etymology
Documentarist comes from documentary, which comes from the old Latin word docere meaning 'to teach' and from document meaning 'a record' or 'proof', plus the ending -ist meaning 'person who'. So a documentarist is a person who makes films or photos that record and show real people and events, like a visual teacher who shows evidence.