Alex Gibney‘s “Zero Days” and Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You” will be the opening and closing night films at AFI Docs, the American Film Institute’s annual documentary festival from June 22-26 in Washington.
The screening of both movies will be held t the Newseum, which is joining the festival this year as official gala screening partner. AT&T will be presenting sponsor.
“Zero Days” centers on Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer worm discovered in 2010 that was commissioned by the U.S. and Israeli governments to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program. Gibney will participate in a Q&A at the June 22 screening. He was honored in 2014 at the festival’s Charles Guggenheim Symposium and presented his movie “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine” last year.
“Norman Lear” chronicles the life and work of Lear, who will participate in a post screening discussion on June 26 with Ewing and Grady. The directors brought their movie “Jesus Camp” to the festival in 2006.
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Tickets to AFI Docs will be available early to AFI members from May 9-17, and to the public on May 18. Passes are on sale at AFI.com/afidocs.
