SILVERDOCS ANNOUNCES 2009 FESTIVAL WINNERS

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 ...

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SILVERDOCS Announces Festival Slate

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 ...

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SILVERDOCS Announces International Documentary Conference Program

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 ...

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SILVERDOCS ANNOUNCES 2009 COMPETITION FILMS

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 ...

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SILVERDOCS to honor Albert Maysles

The Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Barbara Kopple, Other Special Guests to Fete “Dean” of Documentary Filmmaking

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 ...

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