In the year since winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival for Daughter from Danang, producer/director Gail Dolgin and director Vicente Franco have taken their film to over 60 domestic festivals. The documentary has been seen on five continents, has enjoyed a 20-city theatrical release in the US, and on April 7, will air on the PBS series American Experience. The film is a co-presentation with the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with the National Asian American Communication Association (NAATA). Daughter from Danang, which took seven years to make
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Reports of a film festival can lapse into a list of titles. For the Jihlava (Czech Republic) International Festival of Documentary Films ( www.dokument-festival.cz), which ran from October 24 to 29, 2006, a few snippets may give the flavor of the event: *A festival press release stating that one screening "was accompanied by a short discussion with the authors, and by a competition for a DVD containing the film, on which [sic] the audience participated much more than on the discussion." *Mária Ferenčuhová of the Slovak national film school summarizing the prospects for nonfiction movies in her