AFI DOCS 2021 concluded the six-day festival with the festival’s Audience Award for Best Feature going to Storm Lake, directed by Jerry Risius and Beth Levison. The Audience Award for Best Short went to Shelter, directed by Smriti Mundhra.
AFI DOCS (formerly Silverdocs)
AFI Docs (formerly Silverdocs) is an internationally recognized event that honors excellence in filmmaking, supports the diverse voices and free expression of independent storytellers and celebrates the power of documentary to improve our understanding of the world.
AFI DOCS (formerly Silverdocs) started in 2003 and takes place in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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AFI DOCS 2021 Award Winners – STORM LAKE and SHELTER Win Audience Awards
Storm Lake directed by Jerry Risius and Beth Levison
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Lorraine Price’s ‘The Hairdresser’ Shares Story of Kathleen who Does Hair for Terminally Ill Patients [Teaser]
The Hairdresser directed by Lorraine Price Lorraine Price’s short film The Hairdresser (La Coffieuse) shares the story of a woman who does hair for terminally ill patients in hospital. This documentary short received its world premiere at the 2021 Hot Docs International Film Festival where it received an honourable mention for Best Canadian Short and finished second in the shorts Audience Choice Awards. It also screened at Atlanta Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival and at AFI Docs Film Festival this month.
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Antonio Mendez Esparza’s COURTROOM 3H – An Inner look at the Dependency Court of Leon County, Florida [Trailer]
Courtroom 3H directed by Antonio Méndez Esparza Filmmaker Antonio Méndez Esparza’s first documentary film Courtroom 3H, has its North American premiere at AFI Docs. The documentary takes inspiration from the words of James Baldwin: “If one really wants to know how justice is administered in a country, one goes to the unprotected and listens to their testimony.”
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‘The Story Won’t Die’ Documentary on Exiled Syrian Artist-refugees to Premiere at AFI Docs
Rapper Abu Hajar and Choreographer Medhat Aldaabal collaborate outside the defunct Tempelhof Airport in Berlin in The Story Won’t Die (film stills by Luise Schroeder courtesy of Caesura Media and RaeFilm Studios) The documentary film, The Story Won’t Die, which demonstrates the resilience of exiled Syrian artist-refugees who process their pain and circumstances through music, painting, dancing and other mediums will premiere at the 2021 AFI Docs Film Festival
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Filmmaker Dawn Porter Named AFI DOCS 2021 Guggenheim Honoree
Dawn Porter. (Jean Nelson. DP) AFI DOCS, the American Film Institute’s documentary film festival will honor filmmaker Dawn Porter as the 2021 Charles Guggenheim Symposium honoree.
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AFI DOCS 2021 to Open with NAOMI OSAKA Documentary
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – JANUARY 24, 2019: Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka of Japan in action during her semifinal match at 2019 Australian Open in Melbourne Park — (DP) AFI DOCS 2021 will open with the world premiere of Naomi Osaka, directed by Academy Award® nominee Garrett Bradley, and will close with Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt’s celebrated coming-of-age film Cusp. This year’s Centerpiece Screening will be Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, directed by Academy Award® winner Morgan Neville.
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AFI DOCS Announces 2021 Dates
AFI DOCS, the American Film Institute’s annual documentary celebration in the nation’s capital, has opened submissions and announced the dates for the 2021 edition of the festival. Now in its 19th year, AFI DOCS will be held June 22-27, 2021.
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AFI DOCS 2020 Awards – TRANSHOOD and DO NOT SPLIT Win Top Prizes
TRANSHOOD, directed by Sharon Liese AFI DOCS 2020 concluded its five-day online festival with the Audience Award for Best Feature going to TRANSHOOD, directed by Sharon Liese and the Audience Award for Best Short going to BLACKFEET BOXING: NOT INVISIBLE, directed by Kristen Lappas and Tom Rinaldi.
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AFI DOCS Unveils Diverse Documentary Lineup for 2020 Online Festival
[JIMMY CARTER ROCK & ROLL PRESIDENT] Jimmy Carter and Willie Nelson White House Staff Photographer, Courtesy of Jimmy Carter Library The American Film Institute revealed its full slate of films being presented online for the AFI DOCS 2020 festival which runs runs June 17–21. The lineup features 59 films from 11 countries and 12 virtual World Premieres, with 61% of the films directed by women, 25% by POC directors and 14% by LGBTQ directors.
