/Founders
DC/DOX is co-founded by industry veterans Sky Sitney and Jamie Shor, who bring decades of experience in festival creation and programming, documentary distribution, press and marketing.

Sky Sitney
CO-FOUNDER, FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
Sky Sitney is the co-founder and festival director of DC/DOX. She is the former festival director of AFI Docs (previously known as Silverdocs), and is recognized as one of the key contributors in helping it become one of the leading documentary festivals in the United States. She worked for the festival from 2005 until 2014. After leaving AFI Docs, Sky co-created and co-directed Double Exposure, a festival and symposium which explores the intersection of film and investigative journalism.
Sky also served as director of the Film and Media Studies program at Georgetown University from 2017 – 2023, where she currently serves as Professor of the Practice and teaches a variety of courses in cinema studies. And she has held previous programming positions for the Newport International Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, and Anthology Film Archives. She has held industry positions at C-Hundred Film Corp. and Fine Line Features.
Sky has held numerous consultancy positions for a variety of film and media organizations, including the MacArthur Foundation, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Chicken & Egg Pictures, the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC), and the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital. Sky regularly serves on festival juries, panels, and award review committees, including Cinema Eye Honors, the Gotham Awards, the IDA Awards, the POV editorial committee, and she serves as a Chair for the Peabody nominating committee for Best Documentary.

Jamie Shor
CO-FOUNDER
Jamie is president of PR Collaborative, a leading public relations and strategic communications firm in Washington, DC. It is the agency of record in DC for major film festivals, Bleecker Street, Magnolia Pictures, Roadside Attractions, Screen Gems (a division of Sony) and an ongoing partner for SE Theaters, Hulu, and Netflix.
With a rich background in public policy and journalism, Jamie creates communication plans that put her clients in the national spotlight—and keeps them there. Whether it’s managing a crisis, devising long-term strategies, or assembling top-notch teams to execute campaigns, Jamie’s boundless enthusiasm and insider’s perspective add clarity and credence to any project.
Jamie also has a long career in the arts outside of her work with PR Collaborative. She is the co-founder of the Impact Arts and Film Fund, which produced the Impact Film Festival at the 2008 and 2012 Democratic and Republican Conventions as well as the 2016 Democratic National Convention. The festival was featured multiple times in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, National Journal, The Hill, Roll Call and many other publications.