SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival is a six-day international festival held each June just outside Washington, DC. Created through a unique alliance between the American Film Institute and the Discovery Channel, SILVERDOCS seeks to expand the audience for and broaden the impact of documentary film. It celebrates the diversity of the form and its power to engage audiences with compelling stories of real life, inviting them to explore the significant issues of our time.

Notable filmmakers in attendance this year include the renowned Martin Scorsese; SILVERDOCS’ Charles Guggenheim Symposium Honoree and indie auteur Jim Jarmusch, who will interview Scorsese about his work; Academy Award-winning Bill Couturié; Stanley Nelson; and Nick Broomfield. Also attending with new work, emerging directors such as Christopher Quinn; Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg; and Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing.