The Circuit

The IDA announced the lineup for LA's DocuWeek, set to unspool at Arclight Theatres in Hollywood and Sherman Oaks.  The fest was developed to give filmmakers an Oscar-qualifying run, which this year includes Kurt Kuenne's "Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father" (pictured).  The Academy's rules require that a doc unspool for paid theatrical admissions twice daily for seven consecutive days. 

DocuWeek runs August 22-28.

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father
Fire Under The Snow
Flow
The Forgotten Woman
Glass: A Portrait In Twelve Parts, Made In America
The Matador
Memory Books
Of Time And The City
One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story
Pray The Devil Back To Hell
Project Kashmir
Spirit Of The Marathon
War Child
An Unlikely Weapon
The Wrecking Crew
Yodok Stories

Docuweek, the IDA’s annual LA-based doc fest, began last night with a screening of Jon Alpert amd Ellen Goosenberg Kent’s “Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq.” At the Arclight opening night party, Executive Director of the IDA Sandra Ruch, her colleague Nancy Willen, and Larry Flynt (photo by Alexandra Wyman/Variety via WireImage.com).  Flynt is the subject of another film at the fest, “Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone.”  Check out a Q&A with the film’s director, Joan Brooker-Marks – “I also felt that Larry had contributed more to the preservation of free speech than any single individual in the last three decades. I was also aware that many people often devalued these contributions because he was (and is) a pornographer. But in fact, none of us is any one thing, and that includes Larry Flynt. He has led a layered and complex life -- perhaps outside of the margins that many people consider ‘normal,’ but I don't feel that his chosen profession minimizes what he's done for his country, nor does it make him any less a patriot.”  (Mike Jones)