Silverdocs

AFI Docs Announces Opening Night and Centerpiece Premieres

Now in its eleventh year in Washington DC, AFI Docs presented by Audi (formerly Silverdocs) kicks off of on June 19th and runs until the 23rd. The documentary festival has just announced that their opening gala on the 19th will be a presentation of Bill Couturie's "Letters to Jackie" at the Newseum....

AFI Announces Expansion of Documentary Fest AFI Docs Into DC Area

PGA Adds SXSW, Full Frame and AFI Silverdocs to Official Awards Eligibility List

The Producers Guild of America has added SXSW, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival to its list of official festivals for awards-qualifying films. Among other exhibition methods, theatrically released documentaries that have screened ...

Watch: Exclusive Trailer for George Plimpton Documentary, 'Plimpton!'

Ahead of its world premiere at the upcoming Silver Docs Film Festival, check out the trailer (exclusive to Indiewire) of "Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself," a documentary by Tom Bean and Luke Poling that chronicles the life of George Plimpton, co-founder of The Paris Review an...

Silverdocs Announces Complete Lineup with World Premieres of 'Farm,' 'Plimpton!' and 'Dreams'

Silverdocs, the U.S. documentary festival held just outside of the nation's capital in Silver Spring, Maryland, has announced its complete lineup.  Screening in the U.S. Competition are world premieres "Betting the Farm" (Jason Mann and Cecily Pingree) about organic milk in Maine,...

"Donor Unknown" and "Mr. Happy Man" Are Tops with Silverdocs Audiences

After the dust settled at last week's Silverdocs documentary film festival in Silver Spring, Maryland, the votes were tabulated and it was announced that Jerry Rothwell's "Donor Unknown" and Matt Morris's "Mr. Happy Man" took home the audience awards for Best Feature and Best Short, respectively. "...

"Our School" and "Family Instinct" Lead Silverdocs Award Winners

Mona Nicoara & Miruna Coco-Cozma's "Our School," which follows the integration over four years of rural Roma students into the Romanian public school system, took home the Best US Feature prize at this year's Silverdocs. The winner in the Sterling World Feature Competition was Andris Gauja's "Famil...

$$ for Outreach: Silverdocs Conference Awards Tribeca Transmedia Funds

While most of the focus here at Silverdocs is on the film programming, the conference component of the festival is targeting a new initiative of fostering mid-career and beginning filmmakers. Based on anecdotal evidence coming from several filmmakers who took part in the panels and workshops he...

Al Franken & Silverdocs Honor Legendary Documentarians DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus

Yesterday here at the Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival, hundreds gathered in the large theater at the AFI Silver for the Guggenheim Symposium to honor the careers of DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, the cinema verite filmmakers behind such classics as "The Energy War" (which took viewers into Ca...