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The Documentary Campaign was founded in 2002 by distinguished screenwriter and documentary filmmaker Lawrence Konner in an effort to combine progressive politics with artistic filmmaking.

The Documentary Campaign's second feature film, “Zizek!”, premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. The author of works on subjects as wide-ranging as Alfred Hitchcock, 9/11, opera, Christianity, Lenin and David Lynch, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek is one of the most important—and outrageous—cultural theorists working today. “Zizek!” will be playing and theaters and universities nationwide through 2006 and broadcast on the Sundance Channel in 2007.

In the fall of 2002, The Documentary Campaign started production on its first project, “Persons of Interest” directed by Alison Maclean (Jesus’ Son) and Tobias Perse. “Persons of Interest” examines the detention and deportation of Arab and Muslim immigrants following the September 11 terrorist attacks through first-hand accounts from detainees and their families. “Persons of Interest” was finished in October 2003 and is an official selection at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, the 2004 Rotterdam International Film Festival and the 2004 Locarno International Film Festival. It won the Amnesty International Humanitarian Award at the 2004 Chicago International Documentary Film Festival.

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s election as president of South Africa, The Documentary Campaign organized “Ten Years of Freedom: Films From the New South Africa” in April, 2004. The festival showcased 43 films over one week beginning on South African Freedom Day, April 27. Twenty South African filmmakers traveled to New York to participate in the festival, which highlighted the complexity of South Africa’s developing democracy.

“Getting Through to the President”, a short film completed in 2004, documents three days of phone calls to the White House comment line. The short film, to be completed in the summer of 2004, will be available here for download free of charge. It won the audience award at the Portland International Short Film Festival.