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‘Waiting for Superman’: Is it the next hard-hitting documentary?

These days, documentary films crowd theaters and TV screens, entertaining and illuminating, scooping up awards and respectable box-office receipts, and making a handful of filmmakers rich and famous. But do their films have an impact on whatever they’re documenting?

So far, the answer is: It’s not always clear and rarely quantifiable.

"We are in a golden age of documentary filmmaking," says director Lucy Walker, who has two movies out in 2010. "There’s been an amazing outburst of talent and action. Audiences are experiencing a new era of world-class filmmaking (that) can have the same impact as a fiction film."

By Maria Puente, USA TODAY

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-09-22-waitingforsuperman22_CV_N.htm

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