MONDAY HIGHLIGHTS AT SILVERDOCS:    

FOR ALL MANKIND Screening with Astronaut Ken Mattingly In Attendance 

Silver Spring, Maryland, June 22, 2008—SILVERDOCS presents a special Retrospective Screening of FOR ALL MANKIND. Forty years ago, in July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy's challenge of "landing ...

SILVERDOCS ANNOUNCES FESTIVAL WINNERS 

OCTOBER COUNTRY Wins Sterling US Feature Award

MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN Wins Sterling World Feature Award

12 NOTES DOWN Wins Sterling Short Award

Special Jury Mention went to SALT

Music Documentary Award Goes to RISEUP

Special Jury Mention went to SOUL POWER

OLD PARTNER Wins ...

SUNDAY AT SILVERDOCS: 
 

10:00 a.m. SILVERDOCS presents the East Coast premiere of CARMEN MEETS BORAT, a film that follows as 17-year-old Carmen’s teenage trials and tribulations are interrupted when her sleepy Romanian town gets an unexpected visit from a man named Borat with an American film crew ...

SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS AT SILVERDOCS:    

World Premiere of THE NINE LIVES OF MARION BARRY to Close Festival

Silver Spring, Maryland, June 20, 2009—SILVERDOCS will close the Festival with World Premiere of THE NINE LIVES OF MARION BARRY, directed by Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer.  Many people remember Marion Barry as ...

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SOUL POWER Screening with Performance by Fred Wesley

BEST WORST MOVIE and TROLL 2 Double Feature

Plus Free Outdoor Screening of FOR ALL MANKIND

Silver Spring, Maryland, June 19, 2009—Filmmaker Jeffrey Levy-Hinte presents a screening of SOUL POWER. Before Muhammad Ali and George Foreman’s 1974 ...

THURSDAY AT SILVERDOCS: ALBERT MAYSLES HONORED AT GUGGENHEIM SYMPOSIUM Silver Spring, Maryland, June 18, 2009—The Charles Guggenheim Symposium celebrates the legacy of Charles Guggenheim, the late multi-Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker, in honor of his contributions to our culture and commitment to cinematic excellence and freedom of expression. This ...

Health Themes Dominate Several Films at Silverdocs Festival The Washington Post Rachel Saslow Posted: June 16th, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/AR2009061203292.html  A red carpet for King James Washington Examiner JEFF DUFOUR and KIKI RYAN Posted: June 16th, 2009 http://www.washingtonexaminer.com ...

WEDNESDAY AT SILVERDOCS: World Premiere of CONVENTION followed by Town Hall with Filmmakers, Subjects, DNC Convention Organizers and Administration Representatives Sony Picture Classics’ Tom Bernard to Give Conference Keynote Silver Spring, Maryland, June 17, 2009—SILVERDOS presents the World Premiere of AJ Schnack’s CONVENTION, the highly anticipated ensemble documentary ...

TUESDAY AT SILVERDOCS: EAST COAST PREMIERE OF FACING ALI Silver Spring, Maryland, June 16, 2009—SILVERDOCS presents FACING ALI, directed by Pete McCormack and produced by Derik Murray. Muhammad Ali is one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century, and the film includes interviews from around the world ...

Festival Opens with MORE THAN A GAME

Closes with THE NINE LIVES OF MARION BARRY

Festival Films Address Sports, Politics, Pop Culture, Globalization and Music

Silver Spring, Maryland, May 21, 2009—AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival announced its full slate of films for the Festival taking place June 15-22, 2009 ...

Conference Explores “Storytelling In An Always On World”

Sony Pictures Classics’ Co-Founder and Co-President Tom Bernard
to Give Conference Keynote, “The Future is Strange”

Silver Spring, Maryland, May 27, 2009—AFI–Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival today announced highlights of its International Documentary Conference which runs concurrently with the SILVERDOCS ...

AFI-DISCOVERY CHANNEL SILVERDOCS DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2009 COMPETITION FILMS

Silver Spring, Maryland, May 20, 2009— AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival today announced the competition films for the 2009 Festival, taking place June 15-22, 2009 in the Washington, DC area.  Films will screen in six sections: Sterling US Feature Competition, Sterling ...

US Premiere of Lionsgate’s MORE THAN A GAME to Open Festival  

World Premiere of HBO’S NINE LIVES OF MARION BARRY to Close SILVERDOCS

AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS announces the opening and closing night films for SILVERDOCS 2009.  The Festival will open on Monday June 15, 2009 with the US ...

Silver Spring, Maryland, April 28, 2009—AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival today announced that it will honor Albert Maysles at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium, a centrepiece of the eight-day documentary festival which takes place ...