Documentary filmmakers identified themselves as creative artists for whom ethical behaviours are at the core of their projects. Their comments can be grouped into three conflicting sets of responsibilities: to their subjects, their viewers, and their own artistic vision and production exigencies.
When I was making my documentary I had to re-address my questions to avoid being sexist in any form possible, doing this stopped me from asking other things e.g. Do women belong in the kitchen, Are women smarter than men, Do you think women can have an important say in world politics.
Filmmakers observed these principles with widely shared limitations. In relation to subjects, they often did not feel obliged to protect subjects who they believed had themselves done harm or who had independent access to media, such as celebrities or corporate executives with their own public relations arms. In relation to viewers, they often justified the manipulation of individual facts, sequences, and meanings of images, if it meant telling a story more effectively and helped viewers grasp the main, and overall truthful, themes of a story.
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