DisplacedFilms

Guggenheim Fellow David Zeiger started Displaced Films in 1994. The Band, about his son’s junior year in high school, was broadcast on the PBS series P.O.V. in 1997. He made his landmark thirteen-part PBS series Senior Year in 2002, funded by CPB, PBS, NAATA, LPB, and the MacArthur and Kellogg foundations. Funny Old Guys was broadcast in 2002 by HBO. His 2006 film, Sir! No Sir!, ran theatrically in 65 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada and was broadcast in 200 countries worldwide, including on BBC Storyville, ARTE France, and the Sundance Channel in the U.S. It won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival (Audience Award) and Hamptons Film Festival, and Seeds of War Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival, and was nominated for an International Documentary, Independent Spirit, and Gotham award. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 for his first narrative feature, Sweet Old World, which premiered at the Atlanta Film Festival.