documentarian
noun
doc·u·men·tar·i·an
ˌdä-kyə-mən-ˈter-ē-ən 
-ˌmen-,
-kyü-
: one who makes a documentary
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Gennie, which uses Google’s VEO-3 to help documentarians create re-enactment footage with the push of a button.
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Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Deen also takes several swipes at her former detractors in the project, including fellow foodie and CNN travel documentarian Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018.
—Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
His observant approach to capturing the sights and sounds of New York’s Chinatown and Lower East Side — the streets packed with extras, the kitchens where Aishe works steaming and bustling — displays what can only be a documentarian’s attention to local detail and color.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
In the festival’s first 25 years, audiences were more likely to see an Indigenous actor than the name of an Indigenous director on the big screen, save for the programming, starting in the late 1970s, of films by acclaimed documentarian Alanis Obomsawin.
—Jennie Punter, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Deen also takes several swipes at her former detractors in the project, including fellow foodie and CNN travel documentarian Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018.
—Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
His observant approach to capturing the sights and sounds of New York’s Chinatown and Lower East Side — the streets packed with extras, the kitchens where Aishe works steaming and bustling — displays what can only be a documentarian’s attention to local detail and color.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
In the festival’s first 25 years, audiences were more likely to see an Indigenous actor than the name of an Indigenous director on the big screen, save for the programming, starting in the late 1970s, of films by acclaimed documentarian Alanis Obomsawin.
—Jennie Punter, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Documentarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/documentarian. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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