First Contact (1983 film)
"First Contact" is the first documentary in what later became known as "The Highland Trilogy". The other two films are "Joe Leahy's Neighbours" (1989) and "Black Harvest" (1992). These three films, between them, have won some thirty major awards, included each film winning both the Grand Prix at the Festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris and AFI Award for Best Documentary.
Narrative film
Probably the first fictional film ever made was the Lumière's "L'Arroseur arrosé", which was first screened at the Grand Café Capucines on December 28, 1895. A year later in 1896, Alice Guy-Blaché directed the fictional film "La fee aux choux". Yet perhaps the best known of early fictional films is Georges Méliès’s "A Trip to the Moon" from 1902. Most films previous to this had been merely moving images of everyday occurrences, such as "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat" by Auguste and Louis Lumière. Méliès was one of the first directors to progress cinematic technology, which paved the way for narratives as style of film. Narrative films have come so far since their introduction that film genres such as comedy or Western films, were, and continue to be introduced as a way to further categorize these films.