New this year, the DOC NYC Winner’s Circle section was created to highlight films that have won major festival awards—in many cases, from Oscar-qualifying international festivals—but might fly below the radar of American audiences. Some have been distributed in American art house theaters; others have not. Last year, several international titles that were previously overlooked by prognosticators were […]
DOC NYC presents our Short List for documentary shorts for the second consecutive year, highlighting the year’s standout short form documentaries selected by the festival’s programming team. “We’re in a golden age of documentary shorts,” said DOC NYC Shorts Programmer Opal H. Bennett, who oversees the selection. “This lineup reflects a wide spectrum of filmmakers and distributors who […]
DOC NYC is pleased to announce the 2019 DOC NYC Short List: Features; the eighth annual selection of the year’s top 15 award contenders for feature documentary. The list is considered influential for its steady track record of anticipating Academy Award nominees and winners. The DOC NYC Short List for documentary features officially started in 2012 with 10 titles and grew to […]
DOC NYC is pleased to announce the full lineup for its tenth edition, running November 6-15 at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village and Chelsea’s SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea. This year’s festival will include: 300+ films and events 28 world premieres 27 U.S. or North American premieres 500+ filmmakers and special guests in person This year’s […]
The festival’s two feature competition sections return for 2019: Viewfinders Seven films appear under the Viewfinders strand for distinct directorial visions. They include US premieres of the latest films by Weijun Chen (Please Vote for Me), City Dream, in which a cantankerous street vendor faces off against a city redevelopment agency; and Thomas Balmès’ (Babies), Sing Me […]
This year DOC NYC is proud to be screening 28 World premieres at the festival. These include Joe Berlinger’s The Longest Wave, about world champion windsurfer Robby Naish; Ngawang Choephel’s Ganden: A Joyful Land, on Tibetan Buddhism’s most important monastery; Geeta Gandbhir’s Hungry to Learn, which explores food insecurity among college students; Keith Fulton and Lou […]
DOC NYC is excited to announce this years Special Events! The 2019 Opening Night Film is Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band, by Daniel Roher US PREMIERE: The Band got started as a group of musicians backing up Bob Dylan on tour, but grew into a legend in their own right, starting with the 1968 […]
DOC NYC is excited to announce the lineup for its eight-day DOC NYC PRO conference, running November 7-14 concurrent with the festival’s public film screenings. The PRO lineup features over 180 speakers including notable filmmakers Feras Fayyad, Lauren Greenfield, Asif Kapadia, Rachel Lears, Jehane Noujaim, Steven Bognar and Roger Ross Williams, who will all appear on panels for the festival’s popular Short […]
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Our sixth annual Visionaries Tribute will take place on November 7 at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall. Veteran filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Michael Apted will receive Lifetime Achievement recognition. The Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence will go to Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert (American Factory; A Lion in the House) and the Leading Light Award will […]