Chatting with Turkish director Umran Safter, DCIFF Alum

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One of the pleasures of running a film festival spanning over two decades is watching filmmaker careers take off. Umran Safter produced the documentaries The Eye of Istanbul (Best of Fest, DCIFF 2016) about Ara…

DCIFF 2021 Program Comes to Life

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March 8th, 2020, and with a shout not a whisper, DCIFF completed its twenty-first festival and the full weight of the pandemic descended. In this process this made us, unwittingly, the last film festival on…

How COVID has impacted filmmaker screenings and audiences

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Impact producing means working in film with a strategy to find an audience that not only has been impacted by your film but will take action. In essence, it is using your film as a…

Going to the Movies, An Oral History Project

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As part of DCIFF's inaugural Oral History Project, Going to the Movies, we have invited bloggers to share stories about their neighborhood theaters and the role they play in their community. Starting us off is…