This riveting documentary follows “Taylor Klein,” a student and deepfake porn victim, who seeks to unmask an anonymous dark web predator who superimposed her face onto sex scenes without her consent. The videos were widely circulated on websites like PornHub.
Themes ranging from the aftermath of war to citizen-led protests and police violence ran through the second slate of shorts at Double Exposure’s ninth edition. The films featured included, “23,” “The Smallest Power,” “Suddenly TV,” “The Night Doctrine,” and “Incident.”
Filmmakers and legal experts discussed an expanding threat to the privacy of electronic devices through advanced surveillance techniques at a dedicated panel discussion, “Eyes Everywhere: The Widening Net of Government Surveillance.”
When an audience member remarked that he was even more confused over NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, after the screening of “Minted,” Director Nicholas Bruckman and Writer/Producer Shawn Hazelett knew they had succeeded.
Documentary reviews and press about the Double Exposure Film Festival
The New York Times-produced documentary, screening this weekend at Double Exposure Film Fest, rightly focuses on the women C.K. violated, and comedy’s inability to hold him accountable
Dive into the worlds of artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, deepfakes, NFTs and much more at this year’s Double Exposure Investigative Film Fest. Dedicated to the intersection of investigative reporting and visual storytelling, the festival highlights documentaries that go digging for the truth.
Investigative reporting and visual storytelling come together at this film festival for journalists and filmmakers. The opening night film selection is the DC premiere of Locked Out—an investigative documentary exploring the racial gap in homeownership.
The only film festival in the United States devoted to investigative filmmaking is making its home in the heart of downtown D.C., at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library’s newly renovated 290-seat theater.
The documentary Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink tells the story of a secretive hedge fund’s takeover of America’s local news industry through the eyes of journalists who worked at the papers Alden acquired.
Our #DXIFF partners play an instrumental role in the success in of the festival & symposium year after year, and 2023 is no different. Thank you for locking arms in this celebration of investigative storytelling. This year’s partners include:
Do you appreciate the hard work of investigative journalism? Do you love compelling documentaries? The ninth annual Double Exposure: Investigative Film Festival returns to D.C. this Thursday through Sunday.
The film follows Nobel Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov as he tries to keep the country’s last independent newspaper in operation. As the editor-in-chief of Russia’s last independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, Muratov is no stranger to the consequences of printing the truth in Vladimir Putin’s autocratic Russia.
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