The Investigative Film Festival and Forum returns November 5–8, 2026, in Washington, DC. This year, Double Exposure asks a pressing question: what happens to democracy when the public record itself comes under attack — not only from those who manufacture doubt, but also from the very institutions once trusted to dispel it?
To be on the record once implied a measure of security: to speak on the record was to be heard, documented and held to account. That assurance has become increasingly fragile.
The erosion of trust goes beyond failures of attention or goodwill. It is fuelled by platforms that erase inconvenient histories, officials who quietly remove data from public websites, a media landscape where misinformation travels faster than corrections, and powerful organizations that revise their own accounts without acknowledging what they got wrong.
Join Double Exposure in examining who controls the record, what gets erased, and what remains when the truth itself becomes contested.
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