Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival

The Atlanta Documentary Film Festival (also called ATL DOC, Atlanta DocuFest) is a film festival that screens documentary films in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.^[1] Paul Mariano's Also Ran was named Best Political Documentary at the 2006 festival.^[2] Don Wilson's Mississippi Son: A Filmmaker's Journey Home was named Best Dramatic Documentary at the 2007 festival.^[3] In 2009, Roger Nygard's The Nature of Existence was screened at the festival,^[4] as was Mike Ramsdell's The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue for Hope,^[5] which won the Audience Choice Award that year.^[6] LGBT documentary film It Doesn’t Define Us was screened at the 2010 festival.^[7] At the 2012 festival, Christine Anthony's and Owen Masterson's Grow! won the Audience Choice Award.^[8] Decadence: Decline of the Western World was named that year's Best Foreign Documentary.^[9]