We are pleased to announce that DOC NYC’s third edition will take place Nov. 8 – 15, 2012. Submissions are now open and we are accepting films in three categories: 1) Competition Features (NYC premiere requirement) Contemporary documentaries from around the world – 41 minutes in length or longer – that demonstrate a bold commitment […]
We are pleased to announce that DOC NYC’s third edition will take place Nov. 8 – 15, 2012. Submissions are now open and we are accepting films in three categories: 1) Competition Features (NYC premiere requirement) Contemporary documentaries from around the world – 41 minutes in length or longer – that demonstrate a bold commitment […]
We are pleased to announce that DOC NYC’s third edition will take place Nov. 8 – 15, 2012. Submissions are now open and we are accepting films in three categories: 1) Competition Features (NYC premiere requirement) Contemporary documentaries from around the world – 41 minutes in length or longer – that demonstrate a bold commitment […]
Thanks to everyone for a wonderful festival! This slide-show captures some of our favorite moments. We look forward to welcoming you back in 2012.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]