Each year, the AFI DOCS Charles Guggenheim Symposium honors masters of the non-fiction art form who inspire audiences by documenting and exploring the human experience. The Symposium takes place during the documentary festival and celebrates a master documentary filmmaker and their work.
AFI DOCS will pay tribute to groundbreaking filmmaker Laura Poitras — whose latest film is the Julian Assange portrait RISK (2016) — as the festival's 2017 Charles Guggenheim Symposium honoree. Taking place at the Newseum on June 16, 2017, the Symposium will include an in-depth conversation with Poitras along with clips from her acclaimed works. Poitras' impressive documentary catalog also includes her Academy AwardŽ-winning Edward Snowden portrait CITIZENFOUR (2014), THE OATH (2010), MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY (2006) and FLAG WARS (2003). RISK, a six-year project following WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, was released by Neon on May 5 and will air on Showtime this summer.
The Guggenheim Symposium will be moderated by Cara Mertes, the director of Ford Foundation's JustFilms.
- 2017_DC_Poitras_170616: AFI Docs 2017 -- Guggenheim Symposium (w/Laura Poitras) @ Newseum (49 photos from 2017)
- 2017_DC_Look2Right_170617: AFI Docs 2017 -- Look to the Right (w/Ann Hornaday and Michael Pack) @ Landmark E Street Cinema (69 photos from 2017)
- 2017_DC_Evidence_170615: AFI Docs 2017 -- "I Am Evidence" (w/Mariska Hargitay and Trish Adlesic) @ Landmark E Street Cinema (47 photos from 2017)
- 2017_DC_Icarus_170614: AFI Docs 2017 -- "Icarus" (w/Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan) @ Newseum (73 photos from 2017)
- 2017_DC_Muhi_170617: AFI Docs 2017 -- "Muhi" (w/Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander) @ Landmark E Street Cinema (1 photo from 2017)
- 2017_DC_Tough_Guys_170615: AFI Docs 2017 -- "Tough Guys" (w/Morgan Spurlock, Henry Roosevelt, W.B. Zullo, Bill Viola and Frank Caliguri) @ Landmark E Street Cinema (110 photos from 2017)
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