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When all-star defensive back Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar contract with the Arizona Cardinals in May 2002 to join the Army, he became an instant—though profoundly misunderstood ...

WO AI NI MOMMY (I LOVE YOU, MOMMY) Wins Sterling US Feature Award

Special Jury Mentions went to THE KIDS GROW UP and MY PERESTROIKA

THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS Wins Sterling World Feature Award

Special Jury Mention went to STEAM OF LIFE

THIS CHAIR IS NOT ME Wins ...

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Silver Spring, Maryland, June 25, 2010—AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival announces expanded sponsorship for the 2010 Festival, taking place June 21-27, 2010 in the Washington, DC area. The Corporation for Public ...

Silver Spring, Maryland, June 14, 2010—AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival and the United States Institute of Peace today announced the special programs for the “Peacebuilding on Screen” program during the seven-day event set to run June 21-27 in the Washington, DC area. Through both its film and ...

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THE POWER OF DOCUMENTARY TO ENGAGE STUDENTS AND ENRICH THE 21^st CENTURY CLASSROOM

June 24-26, 2010

Presented by AFI SILVER Screen Education as ...

Silver Spring, Maryland, May 25, 2010—AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival today announced the competition films for the 2010 Festival, taking place June 21-27, 2010 in the Washington, D.C. area.  Films will screen in five sections: Sterling US Feature Competition, Sterling World Feature Competition, Sterling Short Film Competition, and ...

Silver Spring, Maryland, June 24, 2010—AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival presents a screening of RESTREPO.  Armed only with cameras and a fierce commitment to present an unmediated vision of combat, journalists Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm, War) and Tim Hetherington fully embed themselves for a year with a platoon ...

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Marcus Lindeen
SWEDEN, 2010, 60 MINUTES
Mikael and Orlando are two aging Swedes with something unusual in common: They are both biological males who have undergone sex reassignment surgery but now wish to ‘change back.’ The pair’s startling testimony forms a complex philosophical interrogation of gender performance and ...

AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival’s annual Charles Guggenheim Symposium honors the legacy of the late four-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Charles Guggenheim. This year the Symposium celebrates Frederick Wiseman for his body of documentary work including: TITICUT FOLLIES, HIGH SCHOOL, SINAI FIELD MISSION, and BASIC TRAINING. Frederick Wiseman has brought ...

THE WOODMANS
C. Scott Willis
USA, 2010, 82 MINUTES
‘There is a psychic risk in being an artist,’ says George Woodman, the patriarch of the family profiled in director C. Scott Willis’ intimate portrait of a creative clan touched by tragedy. This carefully crafted film explores the continuing artistic endeavors ...

Silver Spring, Maryland, June 21, 2010

Filmmaker Rebecca Richman Cohen presents WAR DON DON as the first film in the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs and United States Institute of Peace’s “Peacebuilding on Screen” strand. The USIP program will feature six independently produced documentaries from around the globe followed by panel ...

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Festival to also Present North American Premiere of Oliver Stone’s SOUTH OF THE BORDER

Silver Spring, Maryland, June 22, 2010—AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival presents the East Coast Premiere of WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN” directed by Davis Guggenheim (AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, IT MIGHT GET LOUD) as its ...

AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival, taking place June 21-27 in the Washington, D.C. area, today announced the eight social issue documentaries selected for the second annual Good Pitch @ Silverdocs. The Good Pitch @ Silverdocs is a project of Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation in partnership with Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program ...

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Marcus Lindeen

SWEDEN, 2010, 60 MINUTES

Mikael and Orlando are two aging Swedes with something unusual in common: They are both biological males who have undergone sex reassignment surgery but now wish to ‘change back.’ In fact, one of them already has. This deceptively simple film, styled as a ...

Filmmakers Alex Gibney, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing in Attendance

Silver Spring, Maryland, June 21, 2010—AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival presents Magnolia’s FREAKONOMICS to open the eighth annual festival.  FREAKONOMICS is based on Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s bestselling book, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Exposes the ...