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The Documentary Site has evolved rather slowly during the ten years of its existence. The seeds of my interest in documentary were planted in 1997 thanks to a graduate class. Since then, I have written a dissertation about it and earned a Ph.D. I have taught and continue to teach documentary courses and use documentary as part of other courses. I also continue to present and write about documentary for conferences and publication.

This site offers a way for me to organize information about documentary. During an unemployed summer in 1999, I taught myself HTML and used my interest in documentary to develop my skills. It has been live and online since then.

My basic goal for this site is pretty simple: To provide an online resource for documentary. Other sites are out there, and many of them cover recent news, festival information, general production issues, and even distribution. This site's niche will be more academic than practical for the moment, but hopefully that will change in the future.

If you have questions or comments, want to contribute money to the site's upkeep (kidding!), want to hire me (not so kidding), or just want to say hello, feel free to send an e-mail to documentarysite@gmail.com.

--Heather McIntosh

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