Docs in Progress
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Docs in Progress is a film organization based in Washington DC which showcases works in progress by up-and-coming and established documentary film
makers.
. It then grew to include workshops in other cities and partnerships with film festivals and organizations such as The Documentary Center
. It has also spawned a blog, Docs Interactive. It is located in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland
at "The Documentary House" where workshops, classes, screenings, consultations and networking events are held. It also provides fiscal sponsorship to documentary filmmakers.
Docs in Progress screens two or three unfinished documentaries at every workshop. Following each screening, the audience participates in an interactive feedback session with the filmmaker(s). Films have been shown by everyone from students to well-established documentary filmmakers like Nina Seavey and Aviva Kempner. Workshops are open to the general public so that filmmakers can get feedback from the kind of audiences they are trying to reach. In 2006, Docs in Progress co-sponsored with DocuClub a work-in-progress screening of Ken Burns’ The War at the Silverdocs
Film Festival.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
makers.
History
Docs in Progress is a 501c3 non-profit arts organization. It was founded in 2004 by documentary filmmakers Adele Schmidt and Erica Ginsberg. It started as a small-scale series of screenings of works-in-progress by Washington DC-area independent documentary filmmakers first at the Warehouse Theater and later at the Jack Morton Auditorium on the campus of George Washington UniversityGeorge Washington University
The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
. It then grew to include workshops in other cities and partnerships with film festivals and organizations such as The Documentary Center
Documentary Center
The Documentary Center is a part of The George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA, devoted to teaching documentary film production theory and techniques and to creating documentary films for national audiences...
. It has also spawned a blog, Docs Interactive. It is located in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 71,452 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown.The urbanized, oldest, and...
at "The Documentary House" where workshops, classes, screenings, consultations and networking events are held. It also provides fiscal sponsorship to documentary filmmakers.
Docs in Progress screens two or three unfinished documentaries at every workshop. Following each screening, the audience participates in an interactive feedback session with the filmmaker(s). Films have been shown by everyone from students to well-established documentary filmmakers like Nina Seavey and Aviva Kempner. Workshops are open to the general public so that filmmakers can get feedback from the kind of audiences they are trying to reach. In 2006, Docs in Progress co-sponsored with DocuClub a work-in-progress screening of Ken Burns’ The War at the Silverdocs
Silverdocs
AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival is an American international film festival created by the American Film Institute and Discovery Channel. It is held every year in Silver Spring, Maryland near Washington, D.C.. Started in 2003, the festival is held for eight days in June at...
Film Festival.