Word: weintrob
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are a couple of road pictures: Jed Weintrob describes his romp across America as a "fictionary" (combination of fiction and documentary with occasional snippets of Jerry Falwell and Barry Manilow); and Lindsay Herman (whose thesis is actually a video, not a film--the difference being a few hundred dollars more for every hour of film footage but lower picture quality) documents a more serious trek across Japan...
Moss says that it is not only entirely incidental that all VES theses happen to be documentaries this year (with Weintrob's dubious exception), but that it is also fortunate for the department. "We try to teach them to do this form and we are glad when they choose this. Most of the students who pursue the film track didn't come here wanting to make documentaries. They chose it because of what they saw in the movie theaters...