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Double Exposure: Investigative Film Festival

Breaking the Mold: Defying Conventional

The DC Public Library is excited to partner with 100Reporters as one of the host for this years Double Exposure Film Festival.

Double Exposure, a project of the investigative news organization 100Reporters, celebrates the finest new films inspired by the investigative instinct. It combines film screenings for the public with a professional symposium for journalists and visual storytellers.

Moving towards its tenth edition, DX does more than just identify and celebrate a new genre of filmmaking. It casts this vital body of work toward recognition as a coherent artistic vision. It connects audience appreciation for creative output to the rights of reporters and filmmakers to pursue investigations in the public interest; it ties stirrings of artistic curiosity to practical consequences and groundbreaking storytelling to policy changes.

For reasonable accommodations, please contact the Center for Accessibility at 202-727-2142 or DCPLaccess@dc.gov. For ASL or tactile interpretation, please allow at least seven (7) days notice.

November 8th, 2024, Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival

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Projecting Protest

About the people who use projections over buildings as a form of protest--most famous of these being Robin Bell of DC.

Tom Clement is a National Murrow Award-winning camera operator. His work as a cinematographer and producer has appeared on A&E Docs, Vice News Tonight, Newsweek, Smithsonian Channel, The Pulitzer Center, and Scripps Longform.

Since 2022, Tom has been with Scripps News working on the documentary series “In Real Life,” “Interview with a Killer,” and “Level Up.” In between assignments, Tom directed, shot, and edited, a 22-minute documentary, Projecting Protest, investigating the rise in unsanctioned light projection activism and exploring the boundaries of free speech.

Fox Chase Boy

During his childhood in the early 80s, Gerad Argeros fell victim to the Reverend James Brzyski, the most prolific known abuser in the Archdiocese of the Philadelphia Catholic Church. In 2017, the first in a series of tragic deaths of Brzyski’s other victims from the neighborhood made it clear the time had come to tell the survivor story of Fox Chase Boy. Drawing on humor and nostalgia, Argeros developed a script to confront the collective demons of his community’s past through a one man show. These early neighborhood performances serve as the backbone of Fox Chase Boy weaving super 8 footage with live storytelling to construct a cohesive narrative from a fragmented mosaic of trauma and abuse. Raw testimonials and reflections from family and the broader community reveals a neighborhood finding its language to describe and confront their collective trauma. With love for his Northeast Philadelphia hometown, Argeros memorializes those lost as he struggles to regain agency in his personal narrative.

Gerad Argeros - Director, Producer, Writer
Gerad Argeros is a writer, actor, producer, and father from Northeast Philadelphia. Now based in Brooklyn,
Argerosʼ original theatrical performance Fox Chase Boy channeled bar basement open mic stand-up comedy
aesthetics, maitreʼd hotel improvisation, DIY and Punk performance venue drink pricing, and avant garde
experimental theater arrogance. The live show which began as a deeply personal story evolved into the short
documentary film Fox Chase Boy, a bold reminder that some families solve problems best in the street.
Kaya Dillon - Director, Producer, Cinematographer
Kaya is a Director, Cinematographer and Producer based in Brooklyn, NY and Arcata, CA. A driving force in
Kayaʼs approach to documentary work is its transformative power, for subject, storyteller and audience alike.
With a constant focus on process and agency of subject, Kaya seeks to engage narratives with the potential
to create new perspectives in lived experience. His work on “Radical Love” in 2021 premiered at the Tribeca
Film Festival. His following feature film as Cinematographer, “All Static and Noise” had its US premiere at
Double Exposure in 2023 and continues to tour the globe shedding light on the harrowing experience of the
Uyghur diaspora. He is the series cinematographer for Huluʼs upcoming docu-series “Vow of Silence,” an
account of the American Indian Movement of the 1970s premiering this November. “Fox Chase Boy,” his
directorial debut, strongly features an impulse for personal storytelling amplified through dynamic
photography, multiple formats and cinematic layering.

I Am Ready, Warden

In the days leading up to his execution, Texas death row prisoner John Henry Ramirez seeks redemption from his victim’s son.

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