Welcome to DOC NYC PRO Spring 2026! Our events bring together filmmakers to tackle the practical, creative, and strategic questions shaping documentary work today. Across six focused sessions, we’ll explore everything from digital security and remote editing workflows to navigating the U.S. documentary market, building audiences through accessibility, crafting grant applications, how to utilize YouTube as a doc filmmaker, a deep dive into distribution hit Secret Mall Apartment, and a special trailer feedback lab.
Designed to be timely, actionable, and filmmaker‑centered, this series is a space to ask questions, deepen skills, and connect with peers around the real challenges, and opportunities, of making documentaries now.
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This session is for any filmmaker who wants to be confident that their footage is being stored and transported safely, no matter the scale or stage of their project.
Join an in-person (the IFC Center) exploration of editing documentary features and series, examining how collaboration, feedback, remote workflows, and creative decision-making shape story arcs, structure, and the final narrative.
Explore how captions, audio description, and accessible workflows help films connect with broader audiences, build trust, and add real value to a distribution strategy.
Grant expert Tracie Holder will lead a two-part online workshop centered on grant writing as a strategic tool for moving a documentary project forward.
This session, featuring digital distributor Polly Haythornthwaite (Java Films) and digital content manager Tiffany Fisher-Love looks at how doc filmmakers can approach YouTube thoughtfully.
This hands-on, in-person trailer feedback lab will give filmmakers direct, actionable insight into how their projects are resonatingwith industry representatives.
