DOC NYC ANNOUNCES FULL LINE-UP FOR SIXTH EDITION NOVEMBER 12-19, 2015 Line-Up Includes 27 World Premieres and 15 U.S. Premieres among Over 200 Films and Events Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton to Present Closing Night World Premiere Once and For All on Nov. 19 Other Special Guests Include Martin Scorsese, Sharon Jones, Ethan Hawke, Sonia Sanchez, Bill […]
The DOC NYC Short List has a history of being a predictor of other awards, from critics’ prizes and top ten lists to the Oscars. In each of the past two years, the DOC NYC Short List had nine titles overlapping the subsequent Oscar Documentary Short List. For the last four years, DOC NYC screened […]
DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, running November 12-19, announced the final two awards being given at the November 12 Visionaries Tribute: filmmaker Kim Longinotto will receive the Robert and Anne Drew Award for observational filmmaking and distribution executive Tom Quinn will receive the Leading Light Award for distinguished service to documentary in a role […]
DOC NYC FESTIVAL, NOV. 12-19, UNVEILS NEW “DOC NYC PRO” BRAND FOR DOCUMENTARY PROFESSIONALS Programs Include “Pitch Day,” “Insiders Conference” & “Masterclasses” Speakers Include Sheila Nevins, Jon Alpert, Abigail Disney, Kirby Dick, Justine Nagan, Simon Kilmurry, Dan Cogan DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, announced a new brand for its programming aimed at professionals called DOC NYC PRO. An eight-day series of […]
DOC NYC will open its 2015 festival on Thurs. Nov. 12 with the US Premiere of Barbara Kopple’s new film Miss Sharon Jones!
DOC NYC will present Lifetime Achievement Awards to Jon Alpert, Barbara Kopple and Frederick Wiseman at its Visionaries Tribute Luncheon on Thurs. Nov. 12, 2015.
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Impact Partners, the leading financier and executive producer of documentary film, will launch a new annual Emerging Documentary Producers Fellowship. The fellowship will be awarded to some of the industry’s most promising new producers at an inaugural ceremony at DOC NYC this fall. The goal of the new fellowship is to foster emerging producing talent […]
by Thom Powers One of the cautionary tales about documentary films falling out of public circulation is Henry Hampton’s Eyes on the Prize. The 14-part series chronicling the civil rights struggle first started airing on PBS in the late 1980s, but by the mid-90s it could no longer be broadcast or released on DVD because a […]
D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus list films in their archives that need preservation help.