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The Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival (also called DocuFest Atlanta, Atlanta DocuFest, and DocuFest) is a
film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...
that screens
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s in
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. Paul Mariano's ''Also Ran'' was named Best Political Documentary at the 2006 festival. Don Wilson's ''Mississippi Son: A Filmmaker's Journey Home'' was named Best Dramatic Documentary at the 2007 festival. In 2009,
Roger Nygard Roger Nygard (born March 28, 1962) is a film director, editor, and producer. As a director he has worked on ''Tales of the Unknown '' (1990), '' High Strung'' (1991), '' Back to Back'' (1996), ''Trekkies'' (1997), and '' Suckers'' (2001). He also ...
's ''The Nature of Existence'' was screened at the festival, as was Mike Ramsdell's ''The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue for Hope'', which won the Audience Choice Award that year.
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documentary film ''It Doesn’t Define Us'' was screened at the 2010 festival. At the 2012 festival, Christine Anthony's and Owen Masterson's ''Grow!'' won the Audience Choice Award. ''Decadence: Decline of the Western World'' was named that year's Best Foreign Documentary.


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