The AFI DOCS Interview: PICTURE CHARACTER With Director Martha Shane

The AFI DOCS Interview: PICTURE CHARACTER With Director Martha Shane

June 18, 2019

PICTURE CHARACTER plays as part of the Spectrum program at AFI DOCS at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday, June 22 and at the Landmark E Street Cinema in Washington DC on Sunday, June 23. Director Martha Shane in attendance. Buy tickets to the screening here. PICTURE CHARACTER is fun, informative and shows that these ideograms are anything but simple. Following the proposals of 3 groups who seek approval from Unicode Consortium for new emojis, the film explores many important questions. Are emojis a new language? Who decides whether a new emoji gets added to the universal lexicon?…

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The AFI DOCS Interview: WHO KILLED GARRETT PHILLIPS? With Director Liz Garbus

The AFI DOCS Interview: WHO KILLED GARRETT PHILLIPS? With Director Liz Garbus

June 18, 2019

WHO KILLED GARRETT PHILLIPS? has its World Premiere as part of the Truth and Justice program at AFI DOCS at the Landmark E Street Cinema in Washington DC on Thursday, June 20. Director Liz Garbus will be in attendance. Buy tickets to the screening here.  On October 24, 2011, police officers found the lifeless body of 12-year-old Garrett Phillips alone in his apartment. Multiple police forces, as well as the District Attorney’s office, swing into action to try and find justice for this tragic case. As the investigation drags on and on, the lack of progress becomes a political playing card. The…

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The AFI DOCS Interview: TAKE ME TO PROM With Director Andrew Moir

The AFI DOCS Interview: TAKE ME TO PROM With Director Andrew Moir

June 18, 2019

TAKE ME TO PROM plays as part of the Shorts program at AFI DOCS at the Landmark E Street Cinema in Washington DC on Thursday, June 20 and at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD on Friday, June 21. Director Andrew Moir in attendance. Buy tickets to the screening here. Queer folks of all ages share a moment from their high school prom. TAKE ME TO PROM is a colorful, celebratory, poignant documentary that invites audiences to revisit an iconic teenage milestone while telling an intergenerational story of social change. We spoke with director Andrew Moir about his new film.…

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The AFI DOCS Interview: THE ELEPHANT QUEEN With Directors Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone

The AFI DOCS Interview: THE ELEPHANT QUEEN With Directors Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone

June 17, 2019

THE ELEPHANT QUEEN plays as part of the Spectrum program at AFI DOCS at the Landmark E Street Cinema in Washington DC on Saturday, June 22 and at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD on Sunday, June 23. Directors Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone will be in attendance. Buy tickets to the screening here. The nature documentary is one of cinema’s oldest and most technically refined genres of nonfiction storytelling. Focusing on a single elephant family and the matriarch at its center, this film gives us an incredibly intimate look at the lives of elephants. Over the course of one…

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The AFI DOCS Interview: THE TRIAL With Director Johanna Hamilton

The AFI DOCS Interview: THE TRIAL With Director Johanna Hamilton

June 17, 2019

THE TRIAL plays as part of the Shorts Program at AFI DOCS at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday, June 22 and at the Landmark E Street Cinema in Washington DC on Sunday, June 23. Buy tickets to the screening here. Alka Pradhan, James Connell and Sterling Thomas are lawyers for Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the five men facing the death penalty for plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks. THE TRIAL, directed by Johanna Hamilton, provides a window to reflect on the impact of a rarely seen part of the “war on terror”: a lack of accountability for the…

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