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Fame High
Archived Festival Film
Fame High
Scott Hamilton Kennedy's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated The Garden captures all the drama, competition, heartbreak, and triumph among a group of struggling students at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. From the nail-biting ... read more
World Documentary Competition Award Winner
Weaving together the seemingly opposing stories of the Miss India beauty pageant and a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls, director Nisha Pahuja illuminates the situation of women across contemporary India, drawing surprising parallels in the way... read more
Miss Universe 1929
Archived Festival Film
Miss Universe 1929
Amateur filmmaker Marci Tenczer was smitten with his cousin, Liesl Goldarbeiter and chronicled her rise from a modest childhood in Vienna to the Texas competition where she was crowned the first Miss Universe. Then Hitler upended everyone's univer... read more
Piece By Piece
Archived Festival Film
Piece By Piece
Piece By Piece is a documentary about the resurgence of the Rubik's Cube and, specifically, the sport of speedcubing. Meet one of the original creators of a well-known speedcubing algorithm and the 1982 Swedish speedcubing champion. Watch one-hand... read more
World Documentary Competition Award Winner
Bombay Beach: The rusting relic of a failed 1960s development boom, the Salton Sea is a barren California landscape and symbol of the failure of the American Dream. Using a stylized amalgam of nonfiction and choreographed dance se... read more
Best Documentary Feature
Archived Festival Film
Best Documentary Feature
Heartwarming. Illuminating. Alarming. The films in this year's World Documentary Competition run the gamut. Get your tickets now to see the film chosen as the best of the Fest by a distinguished jury of some of the biggest names in news media, non... read more