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Double Exposure: The Investigative Film Festival - Passes

Welcome to Double Exposure: The Investigative Film Festival and Symposium, a new way to experience films and cutting-edge forms of digital storytelling inspired by the investigative instinct. A first in the United States, the festival will showcase visual works that dig beneath the surface to reveal hidden truths about our world. News making Q&As, as well as interviews with the reporters, directors, legal experts, whistleblowers and real people behind the stories, will punctuate both film screenings and a two-day symposium featuring leading journalists, filmmakers and visual storytellers.

Our film screenings at the National Portrait Gallery examine the rise of war by remote control and the human and environmental cost of affordable clothes, while Cartel Land offers an intimate portrait of vigilantes who challenge Mexican drug lords. We close with another Washington premiere, of the documentary "(T)error," by directors Lyric Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe. "(T)error" offers a startling, behind-the-scenes look at an FBI informant, Saeed "Shariff"Torres, on what he swears is his last sting operation, filmed without the knowledge of his FBI handlers.

The concurrent symposium (at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre and the Newseum) will open a unique space for filmmakers, visual storytellers and investigative journalists to explore common issues, seeding new forms of inspiration and collaboration. No other event in the nation's capital is devoted exclusively to creating a space where journalists and filmmakers can interact and engage in an exchange of ideas, resources, and best practices.

The symposium's panels, workshops and Q&A's are designed to facilitate productive relationships between filmmakers, journalists and funders, with the goal of expanding their creative vistas and supporting their work. The result, we hope: relationships that lead to the next harvest of great new investigative films, born here.