Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival

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Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival
Genre Documentary film festival
FrequencyAnnual
Location(s) Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Website http://www.docufest.com/

The Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival (also called DocuFest Atlanta, Atlanta DocuFest, and DocuFest) is a film festival that screens documentary films in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. [1] Paul Mariano's Also Ran was named Best Political Documentary at the 2006 festival. [2] Don Wilson's Mississippi Son: A Filmmaker's Journey Home was named Best Dramatic Documentary at the 2007 festival. [3] In 2009, Roger Nygard's The Nature of Existence was screened at the festival, [4] as was Mike Ramsdell's The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue for Hope, [5] which won the Audience Choice Award that year. [6] LGBT documentary film It Doesn’t Define Us was screened at the 2010 festival. [7] At the 2012 festival, Christine Anthony's and Owen Masterson's Grow! won the Audience Choice Award. [8] Decadence: Decline of the Western World was named that year's Best Foreign Documentary. [9]

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