Oliver Stone Attends Screening Of Latest Documentary

Director Oliver Stone will attend a screening of his documentary “Persona Non Grata” at the American Documentary Film Festival today.

Stone, who received the festival’s “Filmmaker Who Makes A Difference” award at the opening-night gala Thursday, made “Persona Non Grata” in 2002, interviewing Israeli and Palestinian leaders about the Palestinian conflict. The film will be screened at 4 p.m. today at the Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs, festival spokesman Michael C. Green said.

Stone shot “Persona Non Grata” over five days, interviewing former Israeli prime ministers Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority Minister of Information and Culture Yasser Abed Rabbo, and masked members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a network of West Bank militias affiliated with former Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat’s Fatah faction.

The festival, which will continue until Thursday at Camelot Theatres, will include more than 50 screenings of documentary films, plus film seminars and filmmaker question-and-answer sessions. This is the festival’s first year.

More information is available online at http://americandocumentaryfilmfestival.com.