The priced line is the pass
Two all-access passes cost $400. The organiser publishes that figure, so a team lead can approve it today without a rate enquiry.
The Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Forum runs Nov. 5-8, 2026 in Washington, D.C. 100Reporters, an investigative news organization, puts it on. Washington.org calls DX the first and only festival in the U.S. dedicated to investigative storytelling on film.
What the pass page publishes
The all-access pass is $200. It carries priority access to the two-day in-person Forum, priority entry to screenings and post-screening conversations with the filmmakers, invitations to parties and receptions, light breakfast on Nov. 6 and Nov. 7, and post-festival access to recordings of every panel discussion.
The page also lists a Panels & Workshops Only pass at $95, a Just Film pass at $85, single-day passes at $100 for Friday or Saturday, a Forum single session at $25, and a Five Film pass at $50. A senior or military film pass runs $75. Student passes run $110, or $100 for a student attending with a DX Academy professor whose pass is $150.
Two named hotels, no nightly rate
The organiser’s lodging page names two hotels and publishes a rate for neither. Kimpton Hotel Monaco DC sits at 700 F Street NW, (202) 628-7177. Eaton DC sits at 1201 K Street NW, (202) 289-7600.
The page describes both as negotiated discount rates for the festival, available first come and first served, with booking deadlines attached. It asks guests to book early because hotels run in high demand that week.
A two-person trip therefore carries one line the organiser has not priced. Ask each hotel for its festival rate for Nov. 5 to 8 and put both answers beside the $400.
The tax line
The lodging page states that DC charges a 15% tax on all hotel bookings and tells visitors to budget for it. Whichever rate a hotel returns, the room cost multiplies by 1.15.
The multiplier is the only arithmetic the desk needs until a hotel answers. A quoted nightly rate times 1.15 gives the taxed night, and a three-night stay multiplies that figure again.
The $180 pass mix
A reporter who wants the Forum and the films can buy both separately. The Just Film pass at $85 and the Panels & Workshops Only pass at $95 come to $180 for one person, or $360 for the pair. That is $40 below two all-access passes.
The all-access pass carries four items the split purchase does not: priority access to the Forum, priority entry to screenings, the party and reception invitations, and the post-festival recordings.
Free screenings at the library
Short films screen at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St NW. The venue page states those films are offered free to the public. A pair can cover the short strands at no ticket cost.
The Forum grid runs Friday sessions from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday sessions from 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Saturday closes early enough that a pair without a Sunday commitment can travel home that afternoon. Opening night sits at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday at the Bloomberg Center, which sets the first room night.
Three venues on one downtown grid
Forum panels, workshops and select screenings run at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW. Feature films run in the Burke Theater at the U.S. Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Ave NW. Shorts run at the library on G Street.
The three addresses sit between 555 and 901 on the downtown grid, so one room serves the whole schedule and neither named hotel sits outside it.
The date that closes the decision
Pass cancellations are accepted through Friday, Oct. 30. The request goes in writing, and a $50 processing fee applies to each pass cancelled. Tickets are non-refundable.
A pair that cancels two all-access passes by Oct. 30 pays $100 in fees and recovers $300. From Oct. 31 the $400 stays committed. The pass page states that programs and schedules are subject to change.
What the total leaves out
Airfare has no published figure. Neither pass covers meals beyond the light breakfast on Nov. 6 and Nov. 7.
The room rate stays pending until a hotel answers. That is one email per property, and the two addresses and phone numbers above are the whole route.
What goes in the rate request
Two rooms sit below the group threshold bookMyTeam publishes. Most hotels offer group rates at 10 or more rooms a night, and some discount from five rooms depending on season and availability.
The request still goes out. bookMyTeam takes group room requests at bookmyteam.org/rfp/submit and sends each one to 50 or more hotels per destination, free to submit, with no commission added to the returned rate. Hotels pay the platform a separate commission on accepted bookings. Responses typically arrive in 24 to 72 hours.
The group rate calculator at bookmyteam.org/group-rate-calculator prices a block before the request leaves the desk, and the city directory at bookmyteam.org/directory/cities lists properties market by market.
A pair grows into a block at five rooms a night or more. The festival rate needs no request; a team of that size gains a second route through the request, and the calculator prices the block against whatever the hotel quotes.
