How not to make a documentary (2023)

The director of this film explains the story of his failure to make a documentary for film school and how he arrived at making this film itself. He explains his emotional state and aspirations and how they got crushed both by himself and the people he wanted to make a film with. He outlines the emails he sent between himself and his documentary candidates and the mistakes he made during the process of trying to create a documentary. By the end, he has given up on both the documentaries he attempted to create and decided to go with a passion project - “How not to make a documentary”.