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Docs in Progress is a film organization based in Washington DC which showcases works in progress by up-and-coming and established documentary filmmakers.

History

Docs in Progress was founded in 2004 by documentary filmmakers Adele Schmidt and Erica Ginsberg. It started as a small-scale series of screenings of works-in-progress by Washington DC-area independent documentary filmmakers first at the Warehouse Theater and later at the Jack Morton Auditorium on the campus of George Washington University. It has since grown to include workshops in other cities and partnerships with film festivals and organizations such as The Documentary Center. It has also spawned a blog, Docs Interactive.

Docs in Progress screens two or three unfinished documentaries at every workshop. Following each screening, the audience participates in an interactive feedback session with the filmmaker(s). Films have been shown by everyone from students to well-established documentary filmmakers like Nina Seavey and Aviva Kempner. Workshops are open to the general public so that filmmakers can get feedback from the kind of audiences they are trying to reach. In 2006, Docs in Progress co-sponsored with DocuClub a work-in-progress screening of Ken Burns’ The War at the Silverdocs Film Festival.

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