In the weekend, Washington, DC is running the third annual DC/Docs, away from President Trump’s military parade on 14 June. The four -day documentary film festival shut down on June 12 and highlighted films that detect some of the most pressure issues in the US, in which school shooting, booking that target race and LGBTQI+ issues ban on issues, attack on free speech and increasing income and money division.
Director Anayasi Prado was in DC/Docs with “Ulde Mom”, a feature doctor about the shooting of 2022 Month School, who shook the small town to the small town of Ulde, Texas, and left 19 children and two teachers. Prado said that during the military parade, the screening of his film at DC was worthwhile.
“There are a lot of films here that are really addressing important social justice and global issues, so I think it is really important and interesting that this festival is happening on the day of military parade,” said Prado. “The fact is that we are all as a community of documentary filmmakers, I see it as we are catching space, and this is a function of resistance.”
2022, founded by Sky Citney and Jamie Shor, Washington, DC, with the target of bringing new visions, bold voice, and timely stories together, the 2025 version of DC/Docs included 59 features and 35 shorts from more than two dozen countries.
Many hits of Sundance 2025 were part of this year’s DC/Dox Lineup, including Geeta Gandhir’s “The Perfect Neber,” “from 2000 meters to Andrevka”, which Oscar-winner Mustaslav Chernov (“20 days in Maripol”, “Kim Snaders,” Kim Snaders, “Kim Snaders,” “Foctels.”
As opposed to the Trump administration, crowds gathered across the US to participate in “No Kings”, Erica Dilde, who recently addressed reports to run PBS Pov and America, recently that the House of Representatives approved the law to abolish the next two years of PBS Federal Finance.
“We are not going anywhere,” Dilde said on 14 June of the festival during the state of industry panel discussion. “We are going to fight.”
One of the most controversial doors coming out of Sundance 2025 – Bao Guayin “The stringer” – Made her DC/dock debut on 15 June. This is the only second fest that” The Stringer “has screened in Park City since its start.
The film claims that Nick Youut, Associated Press Photoper, who won a Pulitzer Award to take a picture of the 1972 Vietnam War, known as “Neplam Girl”, was not the author of the photo. Instead, Doc alleged that Guayin Thanh Negh, a driver for a freelancer and NBC, actually captured the image and denied recognition for decades.
Under the leadership of Gayeen and a investigative team, Gary Night, Fiona Turner and Terry Lichstein, the founder and manufacturer of the VII Foundation, interviewed 55 people, including Carl Robinson named NGHE and former AP Photo Editor, who claimed that he was pressured to change credit by his boss. He also attracted forensic evidence, such as images and footage of the event footage, and 3D modeling was commissioned to try to prove the UT, which was not in a position to take the picture that made him world famous.
After the premiere of “The Stringer” in Sunndens, the blow was intense. James Hornstein, a UT lawyer, said in an email that “a defamation action will soon be filed against the filmmakers.” Guyen, who was in DC for the screening of “The Stringer”, said that a case of AP never came to light. The director said he was “a little shocked” with the blow.
“We knew that the story would be disruptive for many reasons in the photojournalist and journalism community,” said Guyen. “But whatever has happened since the film’s premiere in Sunndens, my observation is that just asking questions, people have trouble in some ways. I believe that one of the principles of journalism is asking and chasing the truth. Some aspects of dialogue and dialogue about the film and the topic have rehened me whether they want to ask that they are giving a certain answer.”
In May, after a long investigation, the World Press Photo suspended UT’s credit for the prestigious photo. The same month, AP decided not to change the credit on the famous photo.
DC/Dox ends on 15 June.
