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- Washington Post
DC/DOX enters its third year amid a changing world for nonfiction film
As it enters its third year, DC/DOX, the Washington-based nonfiction film festival founded by Jamie Shor and Sky Sitney in 2023, finds itself in a world of dizzying change.
In April hundreds of grant recipients — many of them documentary filmmakers — received notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities was terminating their funding, putting several projects in limbo. The following month, President Donald Trump announced that he was considering eliminating both the NEH and the National Endowment for the Arts; soon thereafter, the NEA announced that it was withdrawing or canceling grant offers to arts nonprofits around the country that have been critical sources of financing.
