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AFI Dallas hosts three documentary world premieres
Fifteen features will screen at the AFI DALLAS 2009 set to run from March 26-April 2, including three documentary world premieres of Justin Wilson’sOne Nationabout human rights, Libby Spears’ sex trafficking talePlaygroundand and John Chester’sRock Propheciesabout an obsessive concert photographer.The US premieres are Robert Keener’s documentary Food Inc, Matt Aselton’s ...
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Awards Countdown - Best documentary - Reality check
AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOORSteve James and Peter Gilbert, the award-winning makers of Hoop Dreams, produced and directed this look at the death penalty through the eyes of long-time Texas death-house chaplain Pastor Carroll Pickett. The audio tapes Pickett recorded on execution days show “the toll it takes on a ...