This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Krystal Grow Tahrir Square has been the epicenter of a political movement that has seen the downfall of two dictators and the rise of a protest culture in Egypt that refuses to be repressed. After 30 years of crushing authoritarian rule, the young people of Cairo took […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Jess Gonzalez There’s folk, there’s blues, there’s gospel—and then there’s Reverend Gary Davis. While you may not have ever heard of him, the roots of his influence run wide and deep in the soil of the blues and folk music we know today. That is the story […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Maggie Glass The high school students at the International High School at Lafayette in Brooklyn are teenagers like many others. They struggle with homework and sports, first loves and gender identity. But as recent arrivals to the United States, their lives are layered with challenges unique to […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Krystal Grow Erratic, obsessive and intensely private, Vivian Maier could have been one of the most famous photographers of her time. For that to have happened, she would have had to display even a tiny sample of her prolific body of work, which remained virtually untouched until […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Karen Backstein What is truth? How can we know what really happened in the past? And who has the right to tell the story of our lives? In her first documentary, Sarah Polley, whose fictional narrative film AWAY FROM HER dealt with Alzheimer’s, returns to the question […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Minnie Li Pat Robertson, the televangelist for the Christian Broadcast Network (CBN), set up the charitable Operation Blessing to assist the Rwanda refugee relief in 1994. While he claimed that money raised through his show “The 700 Club” would be used for relief in Rwanda, reporter Bill […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Maggie Glass In the modern age, women from all different backgrounds and walks of life may find themselves asking the same thing: how should I feed my baby? In her latest film BREASTMILK, director Dana Ben-Ari captures the intimate and often contentious subject of breastfeeding by following […]
“I’ve told this story probably 30 to 40 times, so apologies if you’ve heard it before,” DEATH METAL ANGOLA director Jeremy Xido told the audience at Saturday night’s DOC NYC screening of his film. “But it’s a good one.” He’s right. A few years ago Xido was working on a film about Chinese laborers rebuilding […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Maggie Glass Even if you are the most tireless and dedicated of activists, Grace Lee Boggs will most likely put you to shame. At 98, she is still teaching, writing, and agitating from her home in Detroit, where she has lived for over 50 years. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Krystal Grow “Is this thing loud enough? Because I want to make sure I’m heard,” Kathleen Hanna said, taking the microphone for the Q&A after the NYC premiere on Saturday of THE PUNK SINGER, director Sini Anderson’s documentary of the legendary feminist and front woman for the […]