hotdocs - I AM DANGEROUS WITH LOOOVE

we had a choice.
adrian grenier (ala entourage)'s new doc about a teenage papparazzo (i was curious); or a film about a man who beat heroin addiction magically with a root derived from the bwiti tribes in Gabon, Africa.
it wasnt a choice for me, really.
very different type pf documentary than what i would make i guess. bt it does a great job at what it does. the camera searc into the lives of broken and healing people, through the eyes of his main subject - a cross between a doctor and a drug dealer. The story worked, we overcome obstacles and reach a resolution. i was a bit dismayed that it took him 3 years to make the thing.
i wanted to ask filmmaker MICHEL NEGROPONTE: "i hope you had other gigs during that time cuz thats a long fuckin shoot!" but instead i asked him: "uh when you took the african root, was what you saw like the animations on the screen? duh? (or sum like that ;)
i find myself back in school-like. a documentary is a very different beast than the fictional narratives i am used to taming.
But both beasts feed off the same food: story and meaningful images.
if we start from there, the rest are just production matters, i suppose...