Set in Argentina 1960, this true crime documentary follows the story of secret agent Zvi Aharoni as he searched for a mysterious man named Ricardo Klement. What he discovered in the remote outskirts of Buenos Aires would send shockwaves around the world.
A Georgia doctor helps execute inmates by lethal injection despite the medical profession’s ban of physician involvement in executions. Personally against capital punishment, he sees his work as providing end of life care to the condemned.
Abacus Federal Savings Bank is a modest institution of New York’s Chinatown that came under harsh prosecution in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. While other banks were considered ‘too big to fail,’ Abacus was ‘small enough to jail.’ Filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams) follows the bank’s founder Thomas Sung and his family as […]
SNEAK PREVIEW DOC NYC is pleased to present a sneak peek at the first two parts of Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s gripping SundanceTV docuseries reexamining the infamous 1959 murder of a Kansas family that Truman Capote explored in his landmark non fiction novel In Cold Blood. Drawn from exhaustive research, including Capote’s notes and correspondence with […]
Filmmaker Bryan Fogel, an avid cyclist, decides to investigate and chronicle the effects of performance-enhancing drugs by using them on his own body. In the course of this experiment, Fogel meets and befriends Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, a Russian scientist with intimate knowledge of his country’s Olympic program. From there, this Sundance Film Festival special jury […]
WORLD PREMIERE In the 1970s and ’80s, Dutch art connoisseur Michel van Rijn moved in elite circles, all the while evading Interpol and the CIA. The purported descendant of Rembrandt was actually a charismatic con man who made millions trafficking in forged and stolen art and antiquities. Even after he was caught, the cunning criminal […]
WORLD PREMIERE Filmmaker Barbara Kopple explores the legacy of the 1989 murder of Noreen Boyle in Mansfield, Ohio. Her 12-year-old son Collier gave a devastating videotaped testimony blaming his father for the murder. Now, over two decades later, Collier returns to Ohio seeking to retrace his past and confront his imprisoned father, who remains in […]
2017 VIEWFINDERS COMPETITION WINNER INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Amanda, a 25-year-old single mother, meets the man of her dreams on Facebook. Casper is charming and worldly, and he eventually reveals that he is the sole heir to an outrageous family fortune. Soon enough, the couple moves in together, but Amanda and Casper don’t exactly live happily ever […]
NYC PREMIERE Why are the men of Charleston, South Carolina’s Porter Gaud School killing themselves? Alarmed by the latest in a long-running series of suicides from her high school in 1979, filmmaker Paige Goldberg Tolmach returns to her hometown for answers. Stonewalled by administrators, she mines her own memories, and those of her former classmates, […]
NYC PREMIERE Richard Wershe Jr, known as ‘White Boy Rick,’ was a legend of Detroit’s drug world in the 1980s. As a white teenager alleged to be running an inner-city drug operation, he was irresistible to the media. Charged with a nonviolent juvenile offense in 1987, Wershe remains in prison at nearly 50 years old. […]