Written by Tomás Salazar Thank You For Your Service shows the most dangerous aspect of the long-term wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: suicide. For every soldier that dies in the field, about 24 veterans commit suicide. Director Tom Donahue interviewed dozens of people, including many veterans and mental health specialists, in more than 50 […]
Written by Jenna Belhumeur In Where to Invade Next, Oscar-winning director Michael Moore’s first film in six years, Moore takes viewers on a journey to various countries to plant the American flag while simultaneously making a profound and yet somehow simple point to his fellow countrymen: We are not the best. And we don’t […]
Written by Laura Dattaro When the curtains rose for the US premiere of Miss Sharon Jones! to kick off the 2015 DOCNYC Festival on Thursday night, the people in the audience knew what they were going to get. IFC Center Director John Vanco called it “perhaps the greatest opening-night film yet” in DOCNYC’s six-year […]
DOC NYC artistic director Thom Powers discusses what’s behind the hashtag #savedocs.
Just announced at DOC NYC’s 2014 Closing Night ceremony are the festival award winners! Taking home the Grand Jury Prize for the Viewfinders Competition is Cairo Drive (pictured), directed by Sherief Elkatsha, while Thomas Wirthensohn’s Homme Less received the Grand Jury Prize in the Metropolis Competition. Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick’s The Hand That Feeds won the SundanceNow Doc Club Audience Award, […]
Keep up to date with all DOC NYC happenings on our blog, Flickr, and YouTube channel. Recent videos include a post-screening Q&A of I Am Big Bird with Carroll Spinney as Big Bird in person, and Albert Maysles, Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker receiving their Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Visionaries Tribute. See photos from the […]
Just added! English filmmaker Nick Broomfield, whose Tales of the Grim Sleeper screens in the Short List program, will appear in conversation during Doc-A-Thon on November 19 at noon. Broomfield will discuss how he seeks out the subjects of his true crime stories and how he’s maintained a lengthly, fascinating career. Tickets on sale now!
THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES | CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK Images That Dare You to Turn Away The DOC NYC Film Festival Returns By STEPHEN HOLDEN NOV. 11, 2014 Credit: Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Sony Pictures Classics To hell and back describes the psychological journey of the great Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado in the magnificent documentary “The Salt of the Earth.” Directed by Wim Wenders […]
Tickets are back on sale for the World Premiere of An Open Secret, the highly anticipated new film from Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg. At once controversial and sobering, An Open Secret is a careful examination into the lives of children who were exploited and assaulted by some of Hollywood’s most powerful players. Tickets now available for purchase.
DOC NYC has added the World Premiere of The Cult of JT LeRoy to the festival’s Special Events section. The film, directed by Marjorie Sturm, gives an intimate view inside one of the biggest literary hoaxes of our time. “Like an intricate jigsaw puzzle that comes together, I’m thrilled to be at long last premiering […]