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Festivals
Doc Film FestivalsThe DOC Film Institute promotes the work of emerging and established documentary filmmakers through tributes and annual thematic festivals. 2009 > DFI’s Oscar Docs is an annual three-day festival of the Academy Award-nominated short and feature documentaries, featuring introductions and Q&As by many of the nominated filmmakers. 2008DFI's first production, CACHAO:Uno Mas, paid tribute to legendary Afro-Cuban composer and bassist Israel Lopez 'Cachao'. This 68-min documentary premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and screened at over twenty different film festivals in Europe, Latin America, Mexico and United States. 2007The Witness to War festival paid tribute to classic war docs and led to an exclusive DFI weekend screening of Ken Burns’ seven-part documentary, THE WAR, at Lucasfilm’s state-of-the-art Letterman theater. 2006A Tribute to Two Masters: Leacock & Pennebaker featured 22 films by these legendary filmmakers who revolutionized documentary filmmaking. 2005The Green Screen U.N. World Environment Day Film Festival featured 28 inspiring films dealing with life and surival on our planet, including the West Coast premieres of Darwinarwin’s Nightmare and GRIZZLY MAN, both of which subsequently won many prestigious international awards. Filmmakers and friends of the DOC Film Institute who have presented films at our festivals, saluted filmmakers or fielded Q & A include Amy Berg, Les Blank, Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, Mark Danner, Dale Djerassi, Nick Doob, Charles Ferguson, Andy Garcia, Al Gore, Roberta Grossman, Chris Hegedus, Stefan Jarl, Michael Krasny, Richard Leacock, Delroy Lindo, Amanda Micheli, Gavin Newsom, Carl Pope, D.A. Pennebaker, Dikayl Rimmasch, Thomas Sanchez, John Santos, Hubert Sauper, Martin Scorsese, Gail Small, Bertrand Tavernier, David Thomson, Alice Waters, Caveh Zahedi. Past Festivals
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Tribute to Two Masters: Leacock/Pennebaker Doc Film Institute
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