10 Best Documentarians In Found Footage Films

9. David Leigh (The Last Broadcast)

FFM ProductionsFFM ProductionsUnlike Micah, David Leigh is a professional documentary filmmaker. He is a sombre and sobering on-screen presence who sets out to make a documentary about the Jersey Devil Murders. In The Last Broadcast, his aim is to figure out exactly what happened to the presenters of internet and cable TV show €˜Fact or Fiction€™ when they went into the woods to investigate the legend of the Jersey Devil and never returned. Leigh has pieced together archive footage and collected a range of interviewees to tell the story. However, what makes Leigh really interesting, and so deserving of a place on this list, is his ulterior motive. Spoiler alert: it turns out that Leigh is the man behind the murders in the woods! When a woman who is helping him to identify what is on one of the tapes manages to make out a face, Leigh ends his documentary by attacking and killing her. Why he would set out to make a documentary about the killings that he is responsible for is anyone€™s guess, but fair play to him for being that gutsy/stupid. The last minute murder certainly livens up what is quite a boring documentary.
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Pete is a film and media lecturer and currently writing his PhD thesis on found footage horror movies. He regularly contributes to a range of film and TV related magazines and websites and recently attended the Cannes Film Festival as a senior reporter and reviewer. You can find his personal film blog at www.ilovethatfilm.blogspot.com and his writing for Yahoo at http://uk.contributor.yahoo.com/user/1696242/pete_turner.html Pete is currently writing a book about The Blair Witch Project for Auteur's Devil's Advocate series. He also appears every week on Scott McGerty’s Amazing Radio show and has a weekly slot to talk new releases on local radio station Marlow FM. He has been interviewed on the BBC World Service programme Business Matters and has interviewed many stars including Bryan Cranston and Denzel Washington on premiere red carpets.