With over 150 films and events in this year’s DOC NYC, it can be tough deciding where to start. To help you find your footing in our expanded lineup, DOC NYC’s programmers are spotlighting some of their favorite films this week–and offering special $5 tickets to them for a 24-hour period. Today’s offer includes films […]
The intersection of film and music, DOC NYC’s Sonic Cinema section explores the history of Washington DC’s 80’s punk scene in Salad Days; the late, great Elliott Smith with Heaven Adores You; a transcontinental transgendered love affair in Songs for Alexis; the inner workings of a banjo concerto in Bela Fleck: How to Write a Banjo Concerto; and much more. Get your tickets […]
An exploration of the very city DOC NYC calls home, the Metropolis Competition offers several slices of divergent New York lives. From the socio-politically charged The Seven Five and Rubble Kings, to the unusual character studies of Homme Less (pictured) and Penthouse North, there’s something for everyone in Metropolis. Get your tickets today!
A sampling of some of the festival’s most adventurous directorial works, the Viewfinders Competition features World Premieres of Kasamayaki, Almost There, Monsieur Le Président, and No Control, alongside the New York Premieres of The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest, Meet the Patels (pictured), All American High Revisted and more. Purchase your tickets now!
This year, DOC NYC presents three late night screenings for our Midnight series. The world premiering Haunters is a sideways look at family businesses — more specifically, at a Michigan family’s homegrown haunted house run amok. Love And Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere goes into the stranger-than-fiction small town history of Chadron, Nebraska, and the haunting discovery […]
It’s here! DOC NYC is pleased to unveil the 2014 festival trailer, featuring clips from our 100+ films, from Do I Sound Gay? and Soul Boys of the Western World to CITIZENFOUR and Some Kind of Spark. Be sure to check it out at the link, and browse our playlist of film trailers while you’re at it. Special thanks to our friends at Wheelhouse Creative.
Laura Poitras (CITIZENFOUR) will receive DOC NYC’s first annual Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence, a $5000 prize to celebrate the work of a mid-career documentary maker upholding the traditions of observational cinema. The award will be formally presented at the DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute at the Park Restaurant at noon on November 14, in […]
As Tabitha Jackson approaches her first anniversary in the job, the Director of the Documentary Film Program at Sundance Institute shares some thoughts about the cultural value of documentary film, the role of Sundance Institute in the documentary landscape, and throws down a challenge to the non-fiction film community. Festival pass- and badge-holders will be admitted free on a first-come, first-served basis, […]
One of DOC NYC’s four brand new sections, Centerstage spotlights personalities in showbiz. The most famous producer you’ve never heard of, Michael White is the man behind such Broadway and West End hits as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Not without his share of setbacks, White’s bankruptcy and recent heart attack are portrayed in Gracie Otto’s […]
DOC NYC’s International Perspectives program offers viewers a glimpse into the lives of others from distant corners of the world. The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness is a behind-the-scenes look inside Tokyo’s world renown Studio Ghibli, the production company behind such animated classics as Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Pom Poko. A profile of two of the […]