21.   Claire Panke has spent six years trying to make her first documentary film.

22.   Documentary films are proliferating, particularly in cable television, says Michelle Satter, founding director of the feature film program at the Sundance Festival.

23.   Documentary film makers say grants from the endowments are essential to their survival.

24.   Documentary films play in the galleries, their soundtracks creating a discreet aural ambiance.

25.   During one visit, the documentary film maker Emile De Antonio consumed an entire bottle of booze while the camera trailed him around for more than an hour.

26.   Enrolling in a class taught by Simpson, a documentary film maker, Golfus made a six-minute movie about his life.

27.   First in a writing project that became a book and now in an often searing documentary film, he helps them fashion their own stories.

28.   For instance, computer camp alumnae Russell and Louie currently are involved in an after-school project building a Web site to promote a documentary film on successful businesswomen.

29.   He also completed work in Africa on a documentary film about the music of the Kalahari Desert.

30.   He appeared in concerts, documentary films, and music and dance festivals throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe and Africa.