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 | | The fourth annual Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival opened June 13th and ran through June 18th in and around the historic AFI Silver Theater in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, just a stone's throw from Washington DC and called out to filmmakers and the community with this year's powerful slogan, "Independent Thinkers Welcome". |
 | | So it's apropos that three new documentaries about camps for kids have begun to emerge on the festival circuit, just in time for summer, although "Jesus Camp," "Camp Out," and "Summer Camp!" are vastly different experiences in both content and style. |
 | | In the Documentary Competition, for example, a survey of the eleven films offered reveal an emphasis on personal portraits, three of which follow very different stories that ultimately reveal the same underlying theme the dysfunctional economic relationship between the US and Mexico and its drastic effect on individual lives. |
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