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Double Exposure: Investigative Film Festival

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.

Click the links below to learn more about the other festival shorts showings at the MLK Library during the Double Exposure Film Festival.

Friday, November 8th, 2024, Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival

Saturday, November 9th, 2024, Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival

Sunday, November 10th, 2024, Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival

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.

American Grail: Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

The siren call of the ivory-billed woodpecker lures a New York based tantric sex teacher into the swamps of the American South on a 17-year journey to prove the mythic bird still exists. Along the way, he finds a tendril of hope in the face of climate change.

Andy Sarjahani is an Iranian-American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer raised in a working class community outside the Arkansas Ozarks. He is interested in people, our relationship to place, and how that shapes our worldview. His work focuses on human ecology, the natural world, class, the American South and the experience of the Iranian diaspora, separately and when they overlap. His recent cinematography credits include Academy Award-nominated The Barber of Little Rock (The New Yorker, 2024), Southern Storytellers (PBS, 2023), and Untitled Brent Renaud Documentary (HBO, post-production).

His recent Director credits include The Smallest Power (Sundance, 2024); Wild Hogs and Saffron (Best Short Documentary – River Run Film Festival, 2024); American Grail: A Quest for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (Big Sky Doc Fest, 2024), and Black Ag (Blackstar Film Festival, 2024). 

How to Sue the Klan

How to Sue the Klan is the story of how five Black women from Chattanooga used legal ingenuity to take on the Ku Klux Klan in a historic 1982 civil case, fighting to hold them accountable for their crimes and bring justice to their community. Their victory set a legal precedent that continues to inspire the ongoing fight against organized hate.

Prelude of a Story

Using family films of her young and beautiful mother and the not entirely reliable account of her father, the director begins to piece together a story of her deceased mother's life. (From Reel South.)

Chilean-American Filmmaker graduated from the University of Chile based in the US. Was the Director of Photography for “I’m still here” (Hot Docs 2017), “La Huella en el Agua” (Femcine 2020), “The Dance of the Swans”. Selected for Berlinale Talents Buenos Aires (2017, Argentina) and for Castello Errante Residenza (Rome, Italy, 2020). Former International Producer of CinemaChile, the promotion agency of the Chilean Audiovisual industry abroad, having attended and participated in numerous Film Festivals and markets such as Marche du Film de Cannes, Berlinale, Biennale di Venezia, TIFF, Mipcom, Mipcancun, among others.

Currently residing in Atlanta, GA, working in Cinematography and Post-production for Nine Realms Creative, developing content for local projects and agencies and working in films, as well as distributing “Prelude of a Story”, her first documentary short film that has had a successful festival run starting with the World Premiere at LALIFF Los Angeles Latino Film Festival (Hollywood, CA, 2023) FEST New Directors New Films Festival (Portugal, 2023), SANFIC (Jury Special Mention, Chile, 2023), FIDBA (Bs As Argentina, 2023), Atlanta Film Festival (Jury Special Mention), NFMLA 2024 Best Documentary Short Nominee, ANTOFACINE (Best International Short, Youth Jury Award, Chile) among many others. Also she is in the final stage of the script of her first documentary feature film “The Witch Old Story” (Script Atelier Berlinale Talents Buenos Aires, Conecta Regiones, SANFIC Lab, Lab Proceso de Error) a coming of age essay about womanhood, as well as writing a narrative feature based on a true story and filming a documentary project on prison reform in Atlanta with the National Incarceration Association.

Expression of Illness

After a routine follow up appointment, Bryn learns her treatment isn’t over. What begins as a solo investigation into the thoroughness of her healthcare, evolves into a larger re-imagining of the metrics we use to measure our well-being and the importance of community in healing.

Bryn (she/her) is an Emmy nominated filmmaker based in Louisville, KY. She is drawn to stories that explore myth making and self-determination. She was recently named one of Filmmaker Magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her latest film Expression of Illness, follows her experience with thyroid cancer and will premiere at Double Exposure Film Festival. Recently, she produced Imani Dennison’s The People Could Fly (Blackstar, New Orleans Film Festival, DOC NYC 2024) and Katrina Sorrentino’s Tidal (DOC NYC 2023.) She was also an associate producer and editor on Beekeeper, which was nominated for a 2023 Emmy. She is currently producing Naveen Chaubal’s Pinball, an ITVS co-production that has been supported by the Sundance Film Institute, CAAM, the New Orleans Film Society, Just Films, the Southern Documentary Fund and others. She is also producing Riley Hooper’s Vestibule along with Caitlin Mae Burke, where she won the 2024 Points North Pitch and the 2023 Ji.hlava New Visions Forum. She was a field producer on Under G-d (Sundance, 2023) and an editor on This World is Not My Own (SXSW, 2023.) She was a story producer on Amend: The Fight for America, a Netflix documentary series about the impact of the 14th Amendment. She is a Southern Producers’ Lab alum with the New Orleans Film Society and one of four selected to participate in the Oxford Film Festival Female Filmmaker Retreat. She graduated from the production track at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and is an Associate Programmer for the Tribeca Festival. She is a proud board member of the Documentary Producers’s Alliance.

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