Features appearing in this year’s DocuWeeks include: The Anderson Monarchs, Defiant Requiem, Digital Dharma: One Man’s Mission to Save a Culture, Drought, Garden in the Sea (Jardín en el Mar), Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White, La Source, Love Free or Die, The Magic Life, Of Two Minds, Once In a Lullaby: The PS 22 Chorus Documentary, Out of the Clear Blue Sky, RICKY on LEACOCK, TRIAL BY FIRE: Lives Re-Forged, We Women Warriors (Tejiendo Sabiduría), Without A Net, and Words of Witness. DocuWeeks will also present eleven documentary short films including: The A-Word, Beauty CULTure, Cutting Loose, Jimmy, Kings Point, Open Heart, The Perfect Fit, The Record Breaker, and POV’s StoryCorps Shorts: Facundo the Great, Eyes on the Stars, and Sundays at Rocco’s.
“With over 500 screenings during the month of August, DocuWeeks gives documentary fans on both coasts multiple opportunities to see a great lineup of short and feature length docs,” IDA Executive Director Michael Lumpkin stated in a prepared statement. “We are especially excited about the eleven amazing short documentaries playing in DocuWeeks this year, by far more than we have had before.” For more information and a complete schedule, visit: http://www.documentary.org/docuweeks2012