Festival News

Buy a Waverly Pass that gets you into all DOC NYC events, or individual tickets to galas, screenings, symopsia and special events.

The “Kaleidoscope” section offers family matinees on the weekend of Nov 6-7 featuring films suitable for viewers young and old.

There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This section showcases six of them. The appeal of these films radiates far beyond their backdrop of New York City.

VIEWFINDERS celebrates both established and emerging filmmakers who bring a distinct directorial voice to their work.

Audiences have two extra days to experience the first annual edition of DOC NYC!

Animation by Alex Meillier; Music by Frances.

NYU SCPS reception for DOC NYC

Q: Why a new festival? Thom Powers (artistic director): Documentary film festivals have spread rapidly – Maryland has Silverdocs; North Carolina has Full Frame; Missouri has True/False – but it felt like New York City was missing out. When we started to imagine how to create something in New York, we quickly decided to expand […]

One of the pleasures of building DOC NYC has been reaching out to people I admire to enlist their input for the festival Advisory Board. For our first year, we wanted to assemble a group of…