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Announcing AFI DOCS 2018 Impact Lab Film Projects

June 5, 2018

Five films have been selected for the fourth annual AFI DOCS Impact Lab in partnership with RABEN_IMPACT. The selections for this distinguished fellowship and training program are four feature documentary films — CHARM CITY, DON’T BE NICE, THE PROVIDERS, and PERSONAL STATEMENT, which will have its world premiere and open AFI DOCS this year — and the short documentary film, BROTHER.

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AFI DOCS and NBCUniversal Announce 2017 Impact Lab Grant Recipients

AFI DOCS and NBCUniversal Announce 2017 Impact Lab Grant Recipients

November 20, 2017

Four documentary projects screened at the AFI DOCS 2017 film festival, with presenting sponsor AT&T, will receive funding from the AFI DOCS/NBCUniversal Impact Grants. Now in its third year, this grant program supports outreach and social action campaigns for projects that participated in the AFI DOCS Impact Lab, a two-day filmmaker workshop produced by The Raben Group and sponsored by NBCUniversal. “AFI DOCS is proud to champion artists and their passion to use film as a mechanism for social change,” said Michael Lumpkin, Director of AFI DOCS. “We are grateful for NBCUniversal’s continued support to expand the platform for these…

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Here Are the AFI DOCS 2017 Opening Night and Closing Night Films

Here Are the AFI DOCS 2017 Opening Night and Closing Night Films

May 4, 2017

AFI DOCS, AFI’s annual documentary celebration in the nation’s capital, announces the Opening and Closing Night films for its 15th annual edition. The festival will open with the East Coast premiere of Netflix’s ICARUS, directed by Bryan Fogel, and will close with ESPN Films’ YEAR OF THE SCAB, directed by Emmy® winner John Dorsey. Both screenings will be held at the Newseum, the festival’s Official Gala Screening Partner. AFI DOCS runs June 14–18, 2017, in Washington, DC, and Silver Spring, MD.

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Calling All Documentary Fans and Filmmakers

October 16, 2015

The American Film Institute’s annual documentary film festival, AFI DOCS 2016, will take place June 22–26, 2016 in the nation’s capital and is now open for entries. Each year, AFI DOCS presents a diverse slate of documentaries from around the world that draws documentary fans from the Washington metropolitan region and across the US and convenes filmmakers with policymakers and opinion leaders in DC. How to submit: Filmmakers are invited to submit feature and short documentaries at AFI.com/AFIDOCS or through Withoutabox.com. The 14th edition of AFI DOCS will have three submission date deadlines — early, regular and late — for both…

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The AFI DOCS Interview: THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER's Chad Gracia

The AFI DOCS Interview: THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER's Chad Gracia

July 22, 2015

In the AFI DOCS film THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER, a young, eccentric Ukrainian artist named Fedor Alexandrovich — just four years old when the Chernobyl disaster struck — seeks to learn more about what happened at the nuclear plant. Fedor becomes fascinated with the Duga — a massive, Soviet-constructed radio antenna near the Chernobyl site that remains shrouded in mystery. Fedor discovers that the Duga was one of the USSR’s secret Cold War weapons built to penetrate Western communications systems and, possibly, minds. AFI spoke to director Chad Gracia about his film. There are potential spoilers ahead, so proceed with caution. What…

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