Written by Whitney Marin “The narrative simply wasn’t ‘okay you’re gay, that means you have to leave your family’ or your family is unaccepting. There are these other models that were in existence,” says director, Thomas Allen Harris. “So for me that was really really important to create this film to talk about […]
Written by Rebecca DeRosa Athletes are no strangers to hard work and adversity—they endure long hours of training, grueling workouts and injuries, leaving little time for a social life. But few athletes have the added hardship of facing death threats from the Taliban. Girl Unbound: The War To Be Her premiered at DOC […]
Written by Rebecca DeRosa What is in the food we eat and how do we know if it is safe? With globalization and advances in technology, that is increasingly harder to answer. Many people believe that genetically modified food (GMOs) can cause a host of diseases and disorders such as alzheimer’s, autism, and […]
Written by Whitney Marin James Baldwin is a great American author that has touched the lives of many men and women across the world, having written a number of novels, essays, poems and plays that have penetrated the American consciousness and memorialized what it means to be black in America. For filmmaker Raoul […]
Written by Krystal Grow She wasn’t a paparazzi, she wasn’t a fashion photographer, she wasn’t a journalist, she was a combination of all three. Tough enough to elbow her way through crowded clubs, clever enough to get into the most exclusive events, and savvy enough to know who was worth photographing once she […]
Written by Kate Hoos Off The Rails, the first film by director Adam Irving, made its NYC debut this Saturday at DOC NYC. It is a look into the life of the notorious “train in the neck” Darius McCollum, a New York City man who has a lengthy rap sheet of offenses stemming […]
Written by Whitney Marin Dr. John Sarno had been a practicing physician for over 50 years. He worked as a professor and attending physician at New York University’s Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine until 2012 when he retired. At a point in his career, Dr. Sarno realized that the way he […]
Written by Megan Scanlon In a world of “what’s next” the DOC NYC experience connects filmmakers and audiences, tethering them to a specific moment in time, a shared experience and marker in life that affirms presence, that makes it enough to say, “I was there.” The world premiere of Mr. Chibbs was one […]
Written by Whitney Marin Academy Award-winning director Thomas Lennon took on an ambitious project with the film Sacred, commissioning the work of 40 filmmaking teams to tell one global story. Birthing rituals, coming of age traditions, weddings, funerals, and festivals of celebration were recorded in communities across the world. Lennon is no novice documentarian. […]
Written by Krystal Grow The line between fantasy and reality can be blurry, but when you add the power of the internet and the confusion of adolescence, it can become nearly impossible to determine the difference. On May 31, 2014, two twelve-year-old girls lured their friend into the woods, where they stabbed her […]