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Subject: March 03-07 -Academy Awards-nominated documentary and short films screenings - National Archives
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Join us and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this month as we screen all documentary and short films nominated for the 82nd Academy Awards®.

National Archives

Constitution Avenue and 7th Street NW

 

The Center for the National Archives Experience will host the sixth annual free screenings of the Academy Award® nominees in four categories—Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Live Action Short Film, and Animated Short Film—from Wednesday, March 3, through Sunday, March 7. The screenings are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in partnership with the Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the Foundation for the National Archives.

 

This year, the Documentary Feature nominee screenings will be hosted by film critic Willie Waffle. Mr. Waffle appears regularly on DC50-TV and on over 30 radio stations across the country, including WMZQ-FM. He is the author of Back Shelf Beauties: Movies You Should Rent When the New Stuff is Gone, and, along with fellow critics Tim Gordon and Nell Minow, established the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association in 2002.

Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. No reservations will be accepted. Free tickets will be distributed at the Special Events entrance on Constitution Avenue, 60 minutes prior to start time. You must be present to receive a ticket. Theater doors will open 30 minutes prior to start time. The saving of seats is strictly prohibited. Please note that some films may not be appropriate for general audiences.

Screening Schedule

Documentary Feature Nominees

Wednesday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.

Food, Inc.
Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
(94 minutes, rated PG-13)

Thursday, March 4, 7:00 p.m.

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
(92 minutes, unrated)

Friday, March 5, 7:00 p.m.

The Cove
Nominees to be determined
(92 minutes, rated PG-13)

Saturday, March 6, 7:00 p.m.

Burma VJ
Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
(84 minutes, unrated)

Sunday, March 7, 4:30 p.m.

Which Way Home
Rebecca Cammisa
(90 minutes, unrated)

Live Action Short Film Nominees - Saturday, March 6, 12:00 p.m.

The Door
Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
Instead of Abracadabra
Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
Kavi
Gregg Helvey
Miracle Fish
Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
The New Tenants
Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Total Running time: 95 minutes.

Animated Short Film Nominees - Saturday, March 6, 3:30 p.m.

French Roast
Fabrice O. Joubert
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Javier Recio Gracia
Logorama
Nicolas Schmerkin
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Nick Park

Total Running Time: 68 minutes.

Documentary Short Subject Nominees - Sunday, March 7, 12:00 p.m.

China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
Music by Prudence
Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
Rabbit à la Berlin
Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

 

Total Running Time: 199 minutes (with a brief intermission).

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