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Blogging SilverDocs: Closing Night
"The Nine Lives of Marion Barry" draws a large crowd at SilverDocs 2009.
June 22nd, 2009 | Enette Ngoei
Independent blogger Enette Ngoei attends the closing night screening of The Nine Lives of Marion Barry, where filmmakers Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer explore the political career and private life of the former D.C. mayor. The world premiere was kicked off with a visit from Barry, which was ill-received by gay rights protesters (watch a YouTube video of Barry's arrival here) and ended with an after-screening Q&A, where Barry deflected tough questions from the audience.
Excitement at SilverDocs 2009 reached a crescendo on its closing night. Throngs of people turned up in Silver Spring, MD, to catch the sold-out film, The Nine Lives of Marion Barry. Not all of them got a seat in the AFI Silver Theatre.
Blogging SilverDocs: The Centerpiece Screening
Blogger Enette Ngoei attends the Centerpiece Screeing of AJ Schnack's "Convention."
June 18th, 2009 | Enette Ngoei
Independent blogger Enette Ngoei is forced to choose between the many nighttime screenings offered at SilverDocs this year. Going back and forth between AJ Schnack's Convention, Peter Greenaway's Act of God (view the trailer here) and Oded Adomi Leshem's Voices from El-Sayed (view the trailer here), she makes a snap decision to go with the Centerpiece Screening of Convention and gets an inside look at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Limited by a day job, I was confined to picking one of the 122 nighttime screenings at SilverDocs 2009 and, not knowing much about any of them, my decision was a bit of a gamble.
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