/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 previously led AFI Docs, formerly Silverdocs, where she was a key force in establishing the festival as one of the leading documentary festivals in the United States. She worked with the festival from 2005 to 2014. After leaving AFI Docs, Sky co-created and co-directed Double Exposure, a festival and symposium exploring the intersection of film and investigative journalism.
Sky served as Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at Georgetown University from 2017 to 2023 and continues as Professor of the Practice, teaching courses in documentary and avant-garde cinema and film festival studies. Earlier in her career, she held programming positions with the Newport International Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, and Anthology Film Archives, and worked in the film industry at C-Hundred Film Corp. and Fine Line Features.
In addition to her festival leadership, Sky has consulted for numerous film and cultural organizations, including the MacArthur Foundation, the 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.
She is a frequent juror, panelist, and awards committee member, contributing to organizations such as Cinema Eye Honors, the Gotham Awards, the International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards, the POV Editorial Committee, and the Peabody Awards, where she chairs the Documentary Nominating Committee.
Sky is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Documentary Branch.
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.
