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SILVERDOCS to honor SPIKE LEE
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Wednesday, April 23, 01:51 p.m.
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Silver Spring, Maryland, April 23, 2008—SILVERDOCS announced today that it will honor Spike Lee at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium, a centerpiece of the now eight-day documentary festival which takes place in June just outside DC. Spike Lee, an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated director, producer, writer and actor with ...
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Passes On Sale NOW!
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Thursday, April 10, 11:46 p.m.
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SILVERDOCS 2008 Passes ON SALE NOW!
SILVERDOCS is proud to announce the launch of 2008 pass sales at www.silverdocs.com on Monday April 14. There will be an unprecedented amount of access for Industry Pass holders and enhanced special content for Platinum Package and Sterling Pass holders. Take advantage ...
Congratulations to 2008 Academy Award Winners!
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Tuesday, February 26, 05:46 p.m.
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SILVERDOCS would like to congratulate all of the nominees for the 2008 Academy Awards in the field of Documentary Film. The final two films selected for the awards in the feature and short category were both seen by audiences at SILVERDOCS in June 2007.
Outstanding Documentary Short
FREEHELD
Outstanding Documentary ...
ACE/SILVERDOCS GRANT INCREASED TO $25,000 FOR 2008!
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Tuesday, January 22, 12:16 p.m.
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ACE (Animal Content in Entertainment) is a program of the Humane Society of the United States and run by the group's Hollywood Office. Its mission is to support and encourage positive Animal issues in television and film.
Playing an essential role in the life of our planet, animals share ...
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GW'S DOCUMENTARY CENTER RECEIVES $400,000 GRANT TO BRING FILMMAKERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO UNIVERSITY FOR SIX-WEEK FELLOWSHIP
- Friday, December 7, 11:22 a.m.
- WASHINGTON - The George Washington University's Documentary Center has received a $400,000 grant from the Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to bring 10 filmmakers from around the world to Washington, D.C., for a six-week, intensive fellowship in documentary filmmaking in May and June 2008 ...
Festival expands two days; Now accepting submissions for 2008
- Thursday, October 18, 03:49 p.m.
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Silver Spring, Maryland, October 18, 2007—SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival announced today the expansion of the Festival by two days and the addition of venues to meet demand for SILVERDOCS offerings following last year’s higher demand for shows and increase in industry participation.
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SILVERDOCS now open for submissions!
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Thursday, October 18, 11:55 a.m.
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SILVERDOCS 2008 is open for submissions, seeking films that celebrate the creative vision of independent filmmakers and the power of documentary to expand our world-view and enhance our understanding of the events around us.
Now entering its sixth year, SILVERDOCS has been hailed as the ’pre-eminent US documentary festival” (Screen ...
SILVERDOCS 365: SILVERDOCS at AFI FEST
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Wednesday, October 17, 12:42 p.m.
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SILVERDOCS is proud to host a “Talk Show” panel at the 2007 AFI FEST entitled “Whose Reality Is It?” featuring acclaimed filmmaker WERNER HERZOG in conversation with Los Angeles Times commentator Patrick Goldstein. The panel is scheduled for Sunday, November 4th.
For more information, and to purchase tickets and passes ...
SILVERDOCS 365: BIG RIG @ Stranger Than Fiction
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Wednesday, October 17, 11:08 a.m.
- For a second consecutive year, SILVERDOCS is pleased to co-host a screening at the acclaimed STRANGER THAN FICTION series in New York City. SILVERDOCS will present the east coast premiere of Doug Pray’s BIG RIG (which won the AFM Award at SILVERDOCS 2007). BIG RIG is about the soul ...
SILVERDOCS Presents: Upcoming screenings at AFI Silver
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Wednesday, October 3, 09:37 a.m.
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SILVERDOCS is proud to present compelling documentary content year-round. Upcoming screenings at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center include:
SUMMERCAMP!
Monday, October 8, 5:20*, 7:30*, 9:45
*Director Sarah Price will appear at the 5:20 and 7:30 screenings
Best of the International Documentary Challenge
Tuesday ...
SILVERDOCS announces Call For Entries
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Thursday, September 13, 11:03 a.m.
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CALL FOR ENTRIES: Documentary Features and Shorts
Beginning October 18 at SILVERDOCS.com and withoutabox.com
DEADLINES 2008:
Early: January 11
Regular: February 15
Late: March 7
SILVERDOCS announces 2008 Festival Dates!
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Tuesday, August 14, 12:18 p.m.
- Mark your calendars for the 2008 SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival - June 16-22.
NO END IN SIGHT director Charles H. Ferguson profiled in The Washington Post
Focusing on a Losing Battle
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Wednesday, July 25, 04:45 p.m.
- For His Directing Debut, A Policy Wonk Revisits Catastrophic Errors in Iraq by Richard Leiby Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, July 22, 2007; Page N01 Charles H. Ferguson is a policy wonk. By his own admission, "kind of a geek." His last book, published by Brookings Institution Press in 2004 ...
SILVERDOCS ANNOUNCES FESTIVAL WINNERS AND EXTENDS FESTIVAL AN ADDITIONAL DAY TO MEET OVERWHELMING DEMAND
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Sunday, June 17, 11:55 a.m.
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- PLEASE VOTE FOR ME by Weijun Chen Wins Sterling Award Best Feature
- Special Jury mention to ENEMIES OF HAPPINESS by Eva Mulvad
- LOT 63, GRAVE C by Sam Green Wins Sterling Award Best Short
- Honorable Mention went to I WANT TO BE A PILOT by Diego Quemada-Díez
- Music Documentary ...
The Washington Post:
'Audience': Let There Be Lights, Camera, Action
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Friday, June 15, 11:39 a.m.
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By Desson Thomson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 15, 2007; Page C04For Moses, it was the burning bush. For Jacob, it was the ladder. But for Richard Gazowsky, it was . . . a big-budget biblical epic about the life of Joseph, set in the future?
Yes. The 54-year-old San Francisco ...
