16th Annual DocuWeeks
Friday, August 3 - Thursday, August 23, 2012
DocuWeeks™ presents some of the year’s best docs from around the world to audiences in Los Angeles and New York. By providing participants a one-week commercial theatrical run, DocuWeeks™ helps to qualify new documentaries for Academy Award® consideration. The showcase has qualified over 205 shorts and features, yielding 25 nominations and seven Oscar® winners. DocuWeeks™ 2012 will screen over 20 films.
See documentary.org for complete schedule, ticketing and member discounts.
Defiant Requiem
Friday, August 3 - Thursday, August 9, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 3 at 5:15 and Mon Aug 6 at 5:15! A memorial concert reawakens the story of an artistic uprising in the Nazi concentration camp, Terezin, where a chorus... more...
DocuWeeks 2012 Shorts Program 1
Friday, August 3 - Thursday, August 9, 2012CUTTING LOOSE Directors/Producers: Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall, SDI Productions, 29 min. Scotland Hairdressers poised, scissors at the ready, clients in place. Cutting begins.... more...
Love Free or Die
Friday, August 3 - Thursday, August 9, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 3 at 9:40, Sat Aug 4 at 7:30, Sun Aug 5 at 5:15, and Wed Aug 8 at 5:15! LOVE FREE OR DIE is about a man whose two defining passions are in direct conflict:... more...
Once in a Lullaby: The PS22 Chorus Story
Friday, August 3 - Thursday, August 9, 2012Filmmakers in person Thur Aug 9 at 7:30! The PS22 Chorus from Staten Island became a YouTube sensation when their teacher started posting videos of them singing on his blog. At their... more...
TRIAL BY FIRE: Lives Re-forged
Friday, August 3 - Thursday, August 9, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 3 at 4:55 and 9:25, Sat Aug 4 at 12:05 and 7:05, Sun Aug 5 at 2:15, Mon Aug 6 at 4:50 and 9:30, Tues Aug 7 at 12:05 and 7:05, Wed Aug 8 at 4:35 and 9:25, and Thur Aug... more...
Drought/Cuates de Australia
Friday, August 10 - Thursday, August 16, 2012Filmmakers in person Mon Aug 13 at 5:10, Tues Aug 14 at 7:25, and Wed Aug 15 at 9:45! Residents from the ejido (communal land) Los Cuates de Australia in Northeast Mexico perform every... more...
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
Friday, August 10 - Thursday, August 16, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 10 at 7:25, Sat Aug 11 at 5:15, Sun Aug 12 at 9:40, Mon Aug 13 at 7:25! HOLY MAN: THE USA vs. DOUGLAS WHITE, narrated by Martin Sheen, is the story of Douglas... more...
The Magic Life
Friday, August 10 - Thursday, August 16, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 10 at 9:55, Sat Aug 11 at 7:50, and Sun Aug 12 at 5:25! Three aspiring individuals try to turn their passion into a career. Can they pull off the biggest... more...
Out of the Clear Blue Sky
Friday, August 10 - Thursday, August 16, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 10 at 7:35, Sat Aug 11 at 5:25, Mon Aug 13 at 7:35, Tues Aug 14 at 5:25, and Thur Aug 16 at 7:35! On September 11, 2001, Cantor Fitzgerald became famous... more...
RICKY on LEACOCK
Friday, August 10 - Thursday, August 16, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 10 at 5:25, Sat Aug 11 at 9:55, Sun Aug 12 at 7:30, & Mon Aug 13 at 5:25! The work (on and off screen) of legendary filmmaker, Richard Leacock, protege... more...
We Women Warriors (Tejiendo Sabiduría)
Friday, August 10 - Thursday, August 16, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 10 at 9:45, Sat Aug 11 at 7:30, Sun Aug 12 at 5:15, Mon Aug 13 at 9:45, Tues Aug 14 at 5:15, Wed Aug 15 at 7:35, and Thur Aug 16 at 5:15! WE WOMEN WARRIORS... more...
The Anderson Monarchs
Friday, August 17 - Thursday, August 23, 2012THE ANDERSON MONARCHS is about a nationally competitive African-American girls soccer club competing, living, and thriving in an at-risk urban neighborhood in Philadelphia. Nominated in 2008 by Sports... more...
Digital Dharma: One Man’s Mission to Save a Culture
Friday, August 17 - Thursday, August 23, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 17 at 9:55, Sat Aug 18 at 5:25, Sun Aug 19 at 7:40 and Thur Aug 23 at 9:55! When ancient writings of Sanskrit and Tibetan texts vanish during the political... more...
DocuWeeks 2012 Shorts Program 2
Friday, August 17 - Thursday, August 23, 2012THE A-WORD Director/Writer/Executive Producer: Lindsay Ellis, Producers: Kaveh Taherian, Clarinda Morales, University of Southern California, 27 min. USA In the fall of 2009, Lindsay... more...
Garden in the Sea (Jardín en el Mar)
Friday, August 17 - Thursday, August 23, 2012Filmmakers in person Wed Aug 22 at 9:55 and Thurs Aug 23 at 8:15! GARDEN IN THE SEA is a documentary about art, landscape, and environment. Over a period of four years, the director... more...
Of Two Minds
Friday, August 17 - Thursday, August 23, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 17 at 5:25 and Sat Aug 18 at 7:35! Take your best day...and your darkest moment...and multiply by a million. OF TWO MINDS, from the creative team behind... more...
Without A Net
Friday, August 17 - Thursday, August 23, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 17 at 8:10, Sat Aug 18 at 6:20, Sun Aug 19 at 9:55, Mon Aug 20 at 6:00, Tues Aug 21 at 8:10, Wed Aug 22 at 6:20, and Thur Aug 23 at 9:50! Djeferson, Barbara,... more...
Words of Witness
Friday, August 17 - Thursday, August 23, 2012Filmmakers in person Fri Aug 17 at 7:45, Sat Aug 18 at 9:55, and Sun Aug 19 at 12:05 & 5:25! Every time 22-year-old Heba Afify heads out to cover the historical events shaping her... more...
