Written by Maggie Glass Tales of the Grim Sleeper, the latest film from director Nick Broomfield, reveals not only the inner workings of an infamous Los Angeles serial killer, but also the voices and lives of young black women, who are often ignored or persecuted by the police and society at large. Broomfield, […]
We’re proud to announce several acquisitions that took place at this year’s festival, from Opening Night selection Do I Sound Gay? to Closing Night’s The Yes Men Are Revolting, and hopefully even more to come in between! Do I Sound Gay? to Sundance Selects Soul Boys of the Western World to Sundance Selects The Yes Men Are […]
DOC NYC was fortunate to receive rapturous praise from the press for our 5th annual festival. Read on for highlights and check out our video and radio pieces on CBS, Leonard Lopate, and Brian Lehrer, as well as a full highlights “bible” from Indiewire. “Images That Dare You to Turn Away” – Stephen Holden, The New […]
Just announced at DOC NYC’s 2014 Closing Night ceremony are the festival award winners! Taking home the Grand Jury Prize for the Viewfinders Competition is Cairo Drive (pictured), directed by Sherief Elkatsha, while Thomas Wirthensohn’s Homme Less received the Grand Jury Prize in the Metropolis Competition. Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick’s The Hand That Feeds won the SundanceNow Doc Club Audience Award, […]
Written by Megan Scanlon On Tuesday afternoon, Director Alan Hicks was generous with his time in front of an audience that expressed their admiration and appreciation for the first time filmmaker’s Keep On Keepin’ On, a documentary that took Hicks five years to make about the legendary jazz musician Clark Terry. “For me this […]
Written by Laura Dattaro Calling the 2010 BP disaster an “oil spill” is a huge misnomer. It was no spill — it was a rig explosion that killed 11 workers and left a deep-sea oil well open to gush millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf waters for months. And it was, […]
Written by Jenna Belhumeur At Tuesday afternoon’s screening of High School, the 1968 film directed by renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman, audience members revisited a classic exploration of an American institution. High School was his second film after Titicut Follies, a film that exposed life inside a prison for the insane. Wiseman is now […]
Written by Jacob Appet On Monday night, DOC NYC screened the world premiere of Kirsten D’Andrea Hollander’s Us, Naked: Trixie & Monkey. The film takes us into the private lives of two modern-day burlesque performers who go by the names Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey. Their unique performances combine impressive acrobatic feats […]
Written by Maggie Glass A young black man, Anthony Porter, is arrested for a double murder and put on death row. A passionate journalism professor and his students investigate the crime, find an alternate suspect, and successfully petition for Porter’s release just days before his scheduled execution. An ostensible triumph for justice — and yet, […]
Written by Jenna Belhumeur What happens when technology outpaces democratic oversight? Citizenfour answers just that. In Laura Poitras’s documentary, which screened Tuesday night at Chelsea’s Bow Tie Theater, viewers are invited into the fateful Hong Kong hotel room where Edward Snowden facilitated the publication of shocking NSA classified documents. Poitras appeared after the […]