DOXA Documentary Film Festival is pleased to announce Best of DOXA, featuring an encore screening of Orlando von Einsiedel’s Virunga (Winner of the 2014 DOXA Feature Documentary Award), and Johanna Hamilton’s revelatory new film 1971.
Virunga Orlando von Einsiedel | UK | 2014 | 92 min
In the verdant depths of Eastern Congo stands Virunga National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and one of the most biodiverse places in the world. Virunga is a place that almost defies description, from the deep scarlet lava lakes of Nyiragongo volcano, to the grasslands spotted with antelope, elephants, lions, and hippos. It is also home to the world’s only remaining population of wild mountain gorillas. But even in this most beautiful of places, human corruption and greed threatens destruction and death.
1971 Johanna Hamilton | USA | 2014 | 80 min
In 1971, a group of eight ordinary people (college professors, activists, and a cab driver) formed an elaborate plan to break into an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania and liberate whatever documents they could find. They got far more than they bargained for. Outlined in grey government language were plans to subvert the left-leaning elements in the nation; everything from paying mailmen to spy on university professors, to plans to infiltrate the Black Panthers and the Boy Scouts.
*You must be 18 years or older and have a 2014 DOXA Festival Membership.
