Plimpton! World Premiere

George Plimpton with the Boston Celtics and Bill Russell.

It’s official Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton will make its world premiere at AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival in Washington, D.C. The premiere showing is on June 21 at 8:30 p.m. The film will also be shown on June 23 at 12 p.m. Tickets go on sale on Friday, June 1.

Silverdocs is the most talked about documentary festival in the United States, called “Non-Fiction Nirvana” by Variety, the “Pre-eminent documentary Festival in the US” by Screen International and the “premiere showcase for documentary film” by Hollywood Reporter.

Silverdocs encompasses a seven-day international film festival and five-day concurrent conference that promotes documentary film as a leading art form, supports the work of independent filmmakers and fosters an atmosphere for public dialogue and civic engagement around the issues and ideas explored in the films.

For more information on Silverdocs check the festival’s website.