October 8, 2013

20 FEET FROM STARDOM

Millions know their voices, but no one knows their names. Award-winning director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 20th century. Triumphant and heartbreaking in equal measure, the film is both a tribute to the unsung voices who brought […]

October 8, 2013

FUND YOUR DOC: LESSONS IN CROWD-FUNDING

Would you like to raise over $100k for your crowd-funding campaign? Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (Citizen Koch), and Sara Nodjoumi and Till Schauder (The Iran Job) discuss how they made it happen on Kickstarter.

December 2, 2012

Recapping DOC NYC 2012

DOC NYC recently finished it’s third run in New York City, overcoming difficulties presented by Hurricane Sandy to present a lineup of over 115 events and hosting some 125 filmmakers and other guests to eager audiences. One of the major highlights of the festival was the closing night gala of THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, a […]

November 26, 2012

Congrats to Gotham Award winners from DOC NYC!

The Gotham Awards were handed out this evening and we were delighted to see two DOC NYC 2012 alums included in the list. DOC NYC opening night film Artifact (featuring Jared Leto, pictured below) won the Gotham Independent Film Audience Award and How to Survive a Plague (director David France) won best documentary feature. CONGRATULATIONS, […]

November 16, 2012

DOC NYC Announces Awards for 2012

DOC NYC Artistic Director Thom Powers announces the festival’s award-winners on Thursday night. DOC NYC, New York’s premier documentary festival, closed today at the SVA Theatre with an awards presentation by the festival’s Artistic Director Thom Powers prior to the gala screening of Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon’s The Central Park Five. Running from […]

November 16, 2012

The Central Park Five: Complicity and Injustice in NYC

This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Maggie Glass All five of those wrongfully accused in the Central Park jogger case were in attendance at DOC NYC’s closing night gala. THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, the most recent film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon, traces an infamous case of wrongful imprisonment and […]

November 16, 2012

Eddie Adams: Saigon ’68

This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Megan Scanlon Filmmaker Douglas Sloan at the DOC NYC screening of his film. Encapsulating a story described as “easily as fascinating as the picture itself,” filmmaker Douglas Sloan’s EDDIE ADAMS: SAIGON ’68 had its world premiere at DOC NYC on Wednesday evening. The “freshest film in the […]

November 14, 2012

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin & The Farm Midwives

This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Tamer Hassan From left, Ina May Gaskin and directors Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore at DOC NYC. In her introduction to BIRTH STORY: INA MAY GASKIN & THE FARM MIDWIVES by directors Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore, DOC NYC Executive Director Raphaela Neihausen confirmed suspicions that this […]