BRAVO! BRAVO! for Doc 5

Ambassador Richard Viets was an enthusiastic attendee

BRAVO! BRAVO! for Doc 5

Photos © Vicky Moon

The second annual Doc5 Film Festival held at the Middleburg Community Center in mid-September, was, in the words of founder Tom Foster, “an overwhelming success,” drawing appreciative audiences to view five outstanding documentary films over the five different nights. “We were delighted to be able to bring films this fresh and to do it in an intimate setting,” Foster said. “The goal is to build a sense of community around the event and I think we accomplished that.”

Doc5 will come back to Middleburg in 2022 from May 17-21 at the Community Center, and going forward will remain on the local calendar every spring. Foster also is organizing the Piedmont Film Club that will involve a movie a month at Grace Episcopal Church in The Plains. The first film, “David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet,” a first-hand account of humanity’s impact on nature, will be screened on Oct. 21. Laurie Volk arrived from over the mountain in Clarke County channeling her roots in Southern California

Laurie Volk arrived from over the mountain in Clarke County channeling her roots in Southern California

For a gala dinner on the final evening of the event, guests dined alfresco at the Middleburg Community Center gardens before a showing of the film Paper & Glue directed by French artist JR.

Doc 5 Board Member Anne Clancy with Tom Foster, a co-founder of the Doc 5 Film Festival Ambassador Richard Viets was an enthusiastic attendee

Bernadette Wegenstein, director of the captivating film The Conductor about Marin Alsop--the first woman ever to lead a major American orchestra (hint: Baltimore Symphony) Emily Ristau Pam and Brad Ryder Robin Richards and Barbara Pennington

Emily Ristau

Pam and Brad Ryder

Robin Richards and Barbara Pennington