Dear Readers, As we usher out the Bush Administration and welcome the Obama Era, the documentary community can look back on these eight years as a thriving period in which box office records were broken, the Web continued to offer up a plethora of alternatives, and the documentary form took on many exciting permutations, mixing and mashing genres in concert with rapidly evolving technological possibilities. Werner Herzog, the 2008 Career Achievement honoree, is not one to confine himself to genres or define himself by documentary tropes. Yet he’s a giant in the community, inspiring scores of
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