Sky Sitney has been announced as the new artistic director of SILVERDOCS, the Washington, DC-area documentary film festival. Effective immediately, Sitney will lead the Festival’s “programming, ...

As it enters its third year, DC/DOX, the Washington-based nonfiction film festival founded by Jamie Shor and Sky Sitney in 2023, finds itself in a world of dizzying change. The Public Broadcasting ...

Sky Sitney is the co-director of Double Exposure, an investigative film festival and symposium that explores the burgeoning intersection between journalism and film. She is the former Festival ...

Longtime AFI Documentary Festival director Sky Sitney has resigned from her position at the festival, T he Washington Post reports. Her decision to leave follows the departure of a major sponsor, the ...

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When the American Film Institute announced last year that it was merging AFI Docs, the organization’s annual Washington, D.C., documentary film festival, into the Los Angeles-based AFI Fest, Jamie ...

The Georgetown cinema professor is deeply plugged into the city’s arts scene and she’s looking forward to seeing Matthew Broderick on stage at Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Magnetic Fields, AFI’s ...

WASHINGTON – New name. New venues. Same great documentaries. SILVERDOCS has earned a reputation as the largest documentary film fest in the country, attracting more than 27,000 people. Now, it’s ...

The DC/DOX documentary film festival kicks off its second full festival this month, showcasing a diverse slate of nonfiction stories for a hungry audience in the nation’s capital. From politics, of ...

A brand new documentary film festival is launching Wednesday night in The District. The DC/DOX Festival will be held at Landmark Atlantic Plumbing Cinema on V Street Northwest. “DC/DOX is a brand-new ...

Plans are in the works to launch a new documentary film festival in Washington, D.C. in June 2023, with a launch event to take place later this month. Jamie Shor, president of PR Collaborative, and ...

The AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Festival has appointed Sky Sitney as artistic director. She willtake over the role immediately. Sitney will lead the festival’s programming, strategic development, ...