DOC NYC Selects Winter 2025 Season
Date: Tuesday, March 4
Time: 7:00pm ET
Venue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYC
TRT: 89 minutes
Winter Selects Opening Night
Director: Laura Nix
Producer: Hanne Phlypo
As the world looks on, the early months of 2025 continue to stress-test the American democratic ideal. Laura Nix’s zeitgeist-shaking new film, DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE, digs deep into the details beneath our assumptions of a bedrock foundation to uncover some unsettling facts. Among those profiled are Ann Telnaes, former long-time editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post, who resigned this past January when an editorial submission she submitted, commenting on The Post’s owner Jeff Bezos’s submissive attitude to president-elect Trump, was censored. Nix (who directed DOC NYC 2014’s closing night film, THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING) has made a bombshell film that is the equivalent of smelling salts under the noses of an engaged global citizenry.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Laura Nix and protagonist Ann Telnaes, former editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post.