14th Annual DocuWeeks™

Friday, July 30 - Thursday, August 19, 2010

Over three weeks, DocuWeeks™ presents weeklong theatrical engagements of the year’s best documentary films in Los Angeles and New York, helping the films to qualify for Academy Award® consideration in the documentary feature and documentary short categories.

DocuWeeks™ premiered in 1997, and over the past 14 years, the showcase has qualified over 160 short and feature-length films, yielding 17 nominations and seven Oscar winners. Previous participants include Academy Award® winners Smile Pinki (2008), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) and The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006), as well as Oscar® Nominees The Betrayal, War/Dance, Salim Baba, and Sari’s Mother. This year’s edition includes films from the U.S., Canada, Ireland, China, New Zealand, Colombia, Israel, the Palestinian Territories and the United Kingdom.