I disagree to the fact that the documantary maker cannot be the subject of his of her own film. I am currently making a film about an underpriveleged family that I am neighbors with. During the production of the film my feelings toward the family and toward the film have changed. In response to these feelings I have added myself into the film outrightly. When I began the film I had planned to let myself come through in the editing, shooting,etc. But it has been proven to me that this was not sufficient, and my mediation in t he has become a part of the film itself. Now the film has almost turned into a film about myself and my feelings toward the subjects. I feel that this evolution was inevitable, if I am to keep true to myself, and m y vision. Jon Nealon