CATS CRADLE
NYC PREMIERE Shortly after retiring, Bruce and Terry Jenkins of Lutz, FL, transformed their 1920s farmhouse into a hospice and senior living facility for cats.
Shorts
CONCUSSION PROTOCOL
By the end of the 2017-2018 season, more than 250 players in the National Football League will have sustained concussions.
CRANNOG
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Alexis has an incurable, life-threatening disease. She spends her time in a small house in the wooded expanse of northern Scotland where she takes care of dozens of others who are also sick, wounded or dying. Some have terminal cancer, some were about to be killed because of their disabilities, some were saved […]
CUBAN CANVAS
NYC PREMIERE In Havana, a leading artist of the new generation, Roger Toledo Bueno mines the past through the masters who started their careers before him — Manuel Mendive, Rocio Garcia and Roberto Diago. With his contemporary Ariamna Contino, he looks to the future. This intriguing inter-generational story captures intense color and textured patterns, ingenious […]
DEATH METAL GRANDMA
97 year old Holocaust survivor, World War II spy, and famous songwriter Inge Ginsberg decides to break out as a death metal singer.
DOC NYC U: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SHOWCASE
Students in The Documentary Project at Columbia Journalism School learn to write, film and narrate the stories of our time, from deadline reporting to profile writing and documentary features. Successful candidates have leveraged their work to include magazine features, NPR radio stories and newspaper articles. Columbia’s showcase includes: The Lifehouse (USA, 31 min., Heba Elorbany, […]
DOC NYC U: HUNTER COLLEGE SHOWCASE
Hunter’s MFA Program in Integrated Media Arts (IMA) offers advanced studies in nonfiction media making. The IMA Program educates multidisciplinary, socially engaged media makers in a diverse range of skills across the media landscape. Working with faculty from film, video, emerging media and journalism backgrounds, students learn to conceptualize, create and distribute innovative, politically and […]
DOC NYC U: NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY SHOWCASE
New York Film Academy Documentary Department students learn to make films by making films. Hands-on, intensive MFA and one-year Conservatory programs pair rigorous instruction with close mentoring by a world class faculty to support students from around the world as they create their own documentary films. Alumni have received an Emmy® Award, multiple Academy Award®- […]
DOC NYC U: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHOWCASE
NYU’s NewsDoc program prepares students to report and produce for traditional and nontraditional media. Emphasizing not only the story, but the storytelling, the program’s goal is for students to be skilled in both form and content, able tell a story by effectively using all aspects of the medium. The program culminates with each student producing, […]
DOC NYC U: SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS SHOWCASE
The School of Visual Arts’ MFA Social Documentary Film program teaches the artistic skills and techniques needed to tell compelling true stories that stimulate meaningful dialogue. SocDoc not only teaches the fundamentals of good storytelling, but guides students toward a career in the thriving documentary industry. The award-winning faculty is helmed by producer Maro Chermayeff […]