During the weekend, buildings from President Trump’s military parade on June 14 in Washington, DC, the third annual runway at DC/DOX started. The four -day documentary festival began on June 12 and the most prominent films that explore some of the most urgent issues in America, including school launch operations, the ban on books targeting this race and LGBTQIA+, and attacks on freedom of expression and the growing income gap in the country.
The director Aniansi Prado was in the capital/Dux with “Uvalde Mom”, a feature of a feature of shooting at the Jamjuja School for 2022, which rocked the town of Uvalde, the small Texas, and left 19 children and two teachers. Brado said that her film was shown in the capital during the military parade, in particular.
“There are many films here that address social justice and really important global issues, so I think it is really important and interesting that this festival will be held on the day of the military parade,” said Brado. “The fact that we are all here as a community of documentary films, see it as if we were keeping an area, and this is a resistance work.”
It was founded by Sky Sitney and Jamie Shor in 2022 with the aim of combining innovative visions, bold voices, and timely stories in Washington, DC, which included the 2025 version of DC/DOX 59 features and 35 shorts from more than twenty countries.
Several successful documents from Sundance 2025 were part of this year’s DC/DOX collection, including Geeta Gandbhir “The Perfect Neighbor”, “2000 meters to Andriivka” directed by “Whipors”, “Coming Mstylav Mstylav”, “. Eing and Rashil Jaradi “border borders”.
With the crowds gathering throughout the United States to participate in “no kings” gatherings protesting the Trump administration, Erika Deldi, who runs PBS ‘POV and America, treated the recent news that the House of Representatives agreed to legislate to eliminate the next two years of federal funding PBS.
“We will not go anywhere,” Dilday said during the case of the Industry Committee’s discussion on June 14. “We will fight.”
One of the most controversial documents that came out of Sandans 2025 – Pau Ngwin “Strenger– I made DC/dox for the first time on June 15. It is the only second festival in which the “The Stringer” appeared since it first appeared in Park City.
The film claims that Nick Uti, the Associated Press photographer who won the Politzer Award to take a photo of the Vietnam War in 1972 known as “Nabalm Girl”, was not the author of the picture. Instead, the document claims that Naguin Than Naggie, an independent and driver of NBC, has already acquired the image and was deprived of recognition for decades.
Ngawin and an investigation team led by Gary Knight, founder of the Seventh Foundation, and producers, Fiona Turner and Terry Leschetein, conducted an interview with 55 people, including NGHe and former AP photo editor named Karl Robinson, who is claiming to have been under pressure to change the credit by his boss. They also relied on criminal evidence, such as the pictures and shots taken from the event, and the modeling was 3D to try to prove that UT was in a position that allowed it to take the picture that made it world famous.
After the “The Stringer” was first displayed in Sundance, it was a severe reaction. “A defamation will be submitted soon against filmmakers,” James Hornstein, UT lawyer, said in an email. Ngwin, who was in the capital to examine “The Stringer”, said that a lawsuit from AP had never appeared. The director added that he was “a little surprised” the reaction.
“We have known that the story would be turbulent for many reasons in the community of photographer and the press as a whole.” “But my observation of what happened since the film was first shown in Sandans is that asking the question simply poses people in trouble in some respects. I think one of the principles of journalism raises questions and follows the truth.
In May, after a prolonged investigation, World Press Photo was suspended UT credit for the iconic image. In the same month, AP decided not to change the credit on the famous image.
DC/dox concludes on June 15.
