


“Documentaries, thank God, have now become affordable, compared to some of the other movies we are making,” said By Sidney Lumetexecutive producer Brett Ratner, whose RatPac Documentary shingle co-produced the film for American Masters on PBS. It was also an example of the new golden age of documentaries, made possible by new digital cameras and lower production costs along with a growing market for intelligent non-fiction, particularly on U.S. For true film aficionados, the Cannes premiere of Nancy Buirski‘s By Sidney Lumet, was a rare treat: an inside look of the director of such 1970s American classics as Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico and Network.
