Our fifth annual Visionaries Tribute will take place on November 8, 2018 at Manhattan’s Edison Ballroom. Veteran filmmakers Wim Wenders and Orlando Bagwell will receive Lifetime Achievement recognition. The Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence will go to Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Meru, Free Solo) and the Leading Light Award will go to Tabitha […]
DOC NYC returns November 8 – 15, 2018!
DOC NYC Festival (Nov 8-15) doubles the size of 8-day conference for documentary professionals, DOC NYC PRO!
Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) and DOC NYC are inviting storytellers coming from the American Northeast to apply for a new pitch opportunity during the 2018 DOC NYC Film Festival.
Buy an ad in DOC NYC’s catalogue and reach New York’s documentary community! Deadline: Sept. 14.
Congrats to all feature and short documentary films nominated for an Oscar® at the 90th Academy Awards. Of the 5 feature documentaries nominated, 4 screened at DOC NYC 2017 in our Short List section: *“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” Mitten Media, Motto Pictures, Kartemquin Educational Films and WGBH/FRONTLINE Q&A from DOC NYC 2017 with the Sung […]
The Academy Awards® has announced 10 films that will be considered for the best documentary short Oscar® nomination. 3 documentaries were part of our 2017 festival line up. Congrats to all those on list! “Alone,” The New York Times “Edith+Eddie,” Heart is Red and Kartemquin Films “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405,” Stiefel & Co. […]
The Academy Awards has announced 15 films that will be considered for the best documentary feature Oscar nomination. 8 documentaries were on our 2017 DOC NYC short list. Congrats to all! *“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” Mitten Media, Motto Pictures, Kartemquin Educational Films and WGBH/FRONTLINE*“Chasing Coral,” Exposure Labs in partnership with The Ocean Agency & […]
As far as closing nights go, DOC NYC’s final day felt more like a foot-stomping testament to the power of the human spirit than the last night of a film festival, as films on guitar god Eric Clapton, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, and violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman. No stranger to thunderous applause, Eric Clapton helped […]
Leaping across boundaries big and small, day seven at DOC NYC featured stories of high stakes cyber espionage and a genre bending musical talent. Director Laura Poitras once again peers into one of the biggest and most controversial events of the past year with Risk, her daring documentary on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the […]