Written by Jenna Belhumeur With the most high-profile guest of this year’s DOC NYC programming, a packed house at Thursday night’s screening of Makers: Once and For All eagerly awaited the arrival of presidential candidate and documentary subject Hillary Clinton. While rain poured outside, audience members checked their umbrellas at the front desk […]
Written by Tomas Salazar DOC NYC-U, a new initiative launched this year, gave students from New York City’s leading film schools the opportunity to show their work to an esteemed panel of jurors, and on the closing night of the festival, a lucky audience at the IFC Center had the opportunity to see […]
Written by Jenna Belhumeur During Wednesday night’s screening of the HBO-hit documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney joined DOC NYC’s Artistic Director Thom Powers on stage to speak about the reception of his ground-breaking film. Since premiering at Sundance Film Festival, the film has screened around […]
Written by Susan Keyloun “We will start from the beginning, which was about a little girl, and her name was Blue.” ~ Nina Simone in concert, 1968 Much has been written to describe Nina Simone, the “High Priestess of Soul” and iconic vocalist, elegiac lyricist, classically trained pianist and political activist of the […]
Written by Megan Scanlon At once electric and heartbreaking, Director Amy Berg’s Janis: Little Girl Blue reveals a behind the scenes portrait of rock n’ roll trailblazer Janis Joplin. The story is told through interviews with former bandmates, music and showbiz personalities, and family, friends, and lovers from different paths in her life. […]
Written by Laura Dattaro In 1979, science fiction giant Arthur C. Clarke published a novel that popularized the idea of a space elevator, a cable stretching from Earth out beyond the atmosphere that would enable space travel without expensive, fuel-burning rockets. Though the concept is still in the realm of science fiction, scientists […]
Written by Eugene Rosenberg Tuesday night brought a packed house to Manhattan’s IFC Center for the world premiere of The Missing Ingredient from Canadian Director Michael Sparaga. This provocative culinary documentary contrasts two Midtown Italian eateries to ask a deceptively simple question: how does a restaurant evolve from merely being a successful business […]
Written by Susan Keyloun It was a full house on Tuesday as DOC NYC’s Artistic Director Thom Powers introduced the world premiere of Mariela Castro’s March: Cuba’s LGBT Revolution, which immediately preceded the festival’s much-anticipated Keynote Conversation between the film’s director and Downtown Community Television (DCTV) co-founder Jon Alpert, and esteemed collaborator Sheila […]
Written by Tomas Salazar The Legend of Swee’ Pea follows former NBA player Lloyd “Swee’ Pea” Daniels from the beginning of his career until today. He began at the top and constantly fought between a great talent and a profound drug addiction, which made Lloyd move from the top to rock bottom several […]
Written by Laura Dattaro For New York City middle schoolers, high school is a looming presence. The students must not only choose which schools they’d like to attend, but take tests, go on interviews, write essays, and audition to land a seat at a desk. In the documentary Tested, which had its world […]