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The American Film Institute has released the full slate of screenings for its AFI DOCS 2015 Film Festival. Of the 81 films from 25 different countries, four are world premieres: Dawn Porter’s “Rise: The Promise of My Brother’s Keeper,” Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci’s “Salam Neighbor,” Natalie Avital’s “The Three Hikers” and Brad Horn’s “First and 17.”
Other notable filmmakers with projects screening in the festival include the late Albert Maysles (“In Transit”), Alex Gibney (“Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine”), Abigail Disney (“The Armor of Light”), David Holbrooke (“The Diplomat”) and Joshua Oppenheimer (“The Look of Silence”). Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville’s “Best of Enemies” will open the festival on June 17, while “Mavis!” from Jessica Edwards will screen closing night on June 21.
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“Audiences will see the most renowned documentary films of the year, all of which will inspire, inform and entertain,” Michael Lumpkin, Director of AFI DOCS, said in a statement. “This year’s slate celebrates documentary filmmaking while providing a launch pad for meaningful dialogue between audience members, filmmakers and policy leaders.”
As previously announced, AFI DOCS will honor Stanley Nelson — the Emmy Award-winning filmmaker behind “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” “The American Experience,” “A Place of Our Own” and “Freedom Riders” — as its 2015 Charles Guggenheim honoree.
The festival will also host a two-day Filmmaker Conference, open to the documentary community at-large. To see the full lineup of films, scroll down below.
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OPENING NIGHT: BEST OF ENEMIES
DIRS Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon. USA.
3 ½ MINUTES, TEN BULLETS
DIR Marc Silver. USA.
The 2012 murder of African-American teen Jordan Davis by a middle-aged white man, following an argument over loud music, sparked a national debate about Florida’s controversial “stand your ground” law.
THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING
DIRS Laura Nix, The Yes Men. USA.
The prankster activists known as The Yes Men are at it again. Traveling the globe posing as corporate and government spokesmen, the mischievous pair stages elaborate stunts designed to draw attention to the issue of climate change.
THE 414S: THE ORIGINAL TEENAGE HACKERS
DIR Michael T. Vollmann. USA.
When a group of teenagers began testing their hacking skills in 1983, they started a firestorm by stumbling into a national laboratory’s computer system.
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