DocuWest is now the Denver Documentary Film Festival (DDFF). Still produced by its founder as part of the Denver Documentary Society. The only item that changes is the name.
DDFF continues to be dedicated to showing insightful, thought provoking, and awe-inspiring documentary films from around the world.
Screenings will be centered at our main digs, the MCA Holiday Theater and the Alamo Drafthouse Denver. These and other amazing screening partnerships will allows us to present audiences with special experiences.
Denver Documentary Film Festival. We Have Something for your Mind.
The fest looks to explore the world of our people, our politics, our societies, our history and ourselves through the lens of filmmakers from around the globe. We embrace the idea that cinematic truth revealed in a non-narrative manner can allow the filmmaker to make choices that presents life either surreptitiously or purposely based on the choices they make.
DDFF's objective is to present our audiences with the stories that are not only astonishing and jarring, but awe-inspiring and thought provoking enough to encourage more dialogue and discourse to take place by, over and between, the people, events or subjects attending each screening, or presented in each film.
We belong to the IDA and Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA). We support the work of the Alliance of Documentary Editors (ADE). We mirror the DPA's and ADE's work on proper crediting and sustainability. Documentaries need to be better organized for access and sustainability - for all. It is the only branch of filmmaking that is not organized to support the many. We present juried awards and recognition for editors and producers.
We look forward to receiving your submission to the Denver Documentary Film Festival.
Selected documentary features, Medium length and short films participate in the Festival’s three competitive sections, which are chosen by special juries.
Documentaries are also recognized using
We present the "Women Who Doc" award to a filmmaker in each of our three categories.
We present $250 cash prize as part of the "Focus on The Environment Award" presented by Joseph Cantwell to one film whose story shines a light on the environment.
All submissions are eligible for our Audience Award. They are chosen based on ballots submitted by festival audiences, and are presented in the following categories: Documentary feature, medium length, and short Film.