NYC PREMIERE Acclaimed at the Sundance Film Festival, John Akomfrah’s new film is an emotionally charged portrait of cultural theorist Stuart Hall. A complex and deeply insightful thinker about subjects as diverse as feminism, Marxist methodology, migration and American hippies, the 82-year-old, Jamaican-born Hall is one of the most inspiring voices of the post-war Left. […]
NYC PREMIERE In The Unknown Known, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (The Fog of War) offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense whose career will cast a long shadow over the 21st century. Over multiple interviews, Rumsfeld and Morris engage in a verbal duel over recent history and even the […]
2013 METROPOLIS COMPETITION WINNER NYC PREMIERE A pioneer in music criticism, Nat Hentoff has spent more than six decades championing jazz in the pages of the Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, Down Beat, and numerous other publications. Mirroring music’s free flow, he has also been an outspoken civil libertarian and free speech advocate, often […]
WORLD PREMIERE In the wake of the shootings at Columbine, a small town in Pennsylvania celebrates a charismatic judge who is hell-bent on keeping kids in line. His courtroom sends young people into incarceration at an alarming rate until one parent dares to question his motives. In this real life thriller, director Robert May (executive […]
In 2010, Roger Ross Williams won the Academy Award for his documentary short Music by Prudence, becoming the first African American director ever to receive an Oscar. Now he explores the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America’s Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting the “sexual […]
Today drone strikes, night raids and U.S. government-condoned torture occur in corners across the globe, generating unprecedented civilian casualties. Director Richard Rowley takes us on a chilling ride with investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill (Blackwater), tracing the rise of the most secret fighting force in U.S. history and exposing operations carried out by men who do […]
NYC PREMIERE In 2003, it was revealed that New York Times reporter Jayson Blair was a plagiarist, regularly cobbling together his articles from others found on the Internet or otherwise fabricating facts. This precipitated the lowest point in the Grey Lady’s history, leading to an editorial regime change, resignations, and a review of hiring practices. […]
Co-presented by NYU-SCPS Center for Global Affairs. If you’ve ever wanted to travel the world making films or better understand that field, this class is for you. Veteran filmmakers who have worked abroad discuss the challenges and rewards of filming in foreign territory. Note: This panel is one of three classes New York University’s School […]
Co-presented by Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP. When it comes to Wall Street corruption, the worst criminals rarely grant interviews. But Unraveled marks an exception. Prominent attorney Marc Dreier committed fraud on a scale that made him second only to Bernie Madoff. While confined under house arrest, he opened his life to filmmaker and attorney Marc H. Simon […]
The radio documentary is enjoying a golden age, on the broadcast airwaves—and newly reinvented on the Internet. Longtime public radio personality Dean Olsher, creator and host of The Next Big Thing on PRI (2000-2005), brings that popular show’s spirit of discovery to this public listening experience. Olsher curates a selection of dramatic audio documentaries that […]