Scenes of a Crime, Girl with Black Balloons, Lemon and Undefeated take home jury prizes, while First Position dances off with the DOC NYC audience award. Additional screenings of these films have been added to DOC NYC’s calendar. Last night DOC NYC announced its award winners at the festival’s spotlight gala screening of Jon Shenk’s The […]
The awards have been given out, but the festival isn’t over yet! Today’s highlights include a revealing look at journalism in Page One: Inside the New York Times; an intimate portrait of photographer Dennis Stock in Beyond Iconic; and immersion in a real-life version of The Wire in The Interrupters. Plus, catch replays of some of […]
by Rahul Chadha In charting the history of her family in the film Perdida, director Viviana García Besné also created a cinematic essay on the history of Mexican cinema. In fact, it seems nearly impossible to separate those two stories. As a scion of the Calderon family of movie producers, now best know for their […]
by Rahul Chadha “Ricky was my partner, and my friend. He was really kind of my father,” documentary legend D.A. Pennebaker said of filmmaker Richard Leacock following the double bill screening of the films Primary and Crisis on Saturday, at DOC NYC’s ongoing tribute to Leacock, who passed away in March of this year. “I learned a lot of […]
Heavyweight champion and subject of the DOC NYC film Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears died of liver cancer yesterday. He was 67. Tonight’s screening of Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears is sold out, but two more screenings have been added for Thursday, November 10 at 1pm and 8:15pm, both at IFC. This film reveals […]
Join Grammy-nominated entertainer Michael Feinstein for a post-screening conversation at The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical, discover this year’s DOC NYC award winners at the gala and awards presentation of The Island President, and see more great films, Tuesday at DOC NYC. Billed as by Indie wire as “One of the surprise hits to come […]
by Jeff Halpin A nightmarish tale of manipulation, intellectual property fraud and old fashioned show business chicanery, “I Want my Name Back” details the heartbreaking story of the Sugar Hill Gang, widely heralded as the first rap artists to receive world-wide recognition, and their treatment at the hands of Sugar Hill records owners Joe and […]
Start your week off right with DOC NYC! The emotional films Undefeated and Ballymun Lullaby will lift your spirits; the two films in Shorts: Views on Japan will transport you to another world. See more brand new films and replays of those you’ve missed, Monday at DOC NYC. Monday’s Highlights: Like a real-life Friday Night […]
by Jeff Halpin While on holiday in Costa Rica in 2004, director Dominic Allan overheard a cabdriver discussing a mercenary who had robbed some mobsters and was now a painter in Central America. Intrigued by the rumors, Allan traveled to meet this mysterious figure in Nicaragua. The two met for 10 days, with Allan interviewing […]
by Rahul Chadha Poet Lemon Andersen–by his own choice–has never seen Lemon, the film that directors Laura Brownson and Beth Levison made about the Brooklyn native’s struggle to produce his one-man play, The County of Kings. In that regard, Andersen was a minority of one at the sold-out U.S. premiere of Lemon, which was featured as the Centerpiece […]