In addition to the Guild serving as a sponsor of the Forum, on Saturday, September 27, several DGA members partcipated in the panel discussion What’s Up Doc?, which took a look at the new face of theatrical documentaries. The panel featured DGA director-members Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), Freida Lee Mock, (Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner), Marina Zenovich, (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired); and indie producer/director Arthur Dong (Hollywood Chinese) in a conversation moderated by International Documentary Association (IDA) Executive Director Eddie Schmidt.

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