Members of the delegation are Chuck Workman, former IDA President with The People's President, David O'Shields with IDA Pare Lorentz Award Winner America's Lost Landscape and Betsy A. McLane Director Emerita of IDA as specialist.
The delegation will visit the Prague Film Academy (FAMU), the film school in Ludz as well as the Andre Wjada Directing School, Jagiellonian University and others.
The American Documentary Showcase is a curated program of contemporary documentaries that is offered to US Embassies for screening abroad. Funded by, and as a cooperative program with, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State, the Showcase is designed to promote American documentaries and their filmmakers at international overseas venues, including US Embassy-organized events and/or US Embassy-supported international documentary film festivals.
The goal of the Showcase is to offer a broad, diversified look at life in the United States and the values of a democratic society as seen by American documentary filmmakers. The Showcase is intended to demonstrate the role documentary plays in fostering understanding and cooperation.
The American Documentary Showcase is funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to the University Film and Video Association.
For more information about the ADS and the featured films and filmmakers, go here.