This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Sandy Roupioz From left, director/producer Maxine Trump and producer Josh Granger at the screening of their film. This year DOC NYC hosted the world premiere of MUSICWOOD, directed by Maxine Trump and produced by Josh Granger, a documentary that needs to be seen not just by anyone […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Parul Wadhwa Director Laura Archibald spoke at the screening of her film at DOC NYC. If you ever wondered where all the different kinds of music in the 60’s and the early 70’s was coming from, you need look no farther than GREENWICH VILLAGE: MUSIC THAT DEFINED A […]
PLIMPTON! directors Tom Bean and Luke Poling speak at the screening of their film. The literary figure and raconteur George Plimpton during his career tapped into the zeitgeist of the everyman, living out fantasies that even James Thurber’s famous fictional character Walter Mitty would be hard pressed to come up with. The title of Luke […]
Musician and film subject David Bromberg and director Beth Toni Kruvant. The musician David Bromberg’s life has been indelibly linked to his surroundings, as evidenced in the film DAVID BROMBERG: UNSUNG TREASURE by director Beth Toni Kruvant. The film traces the unlikely arc of a revered musician who walked away from his career at its […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Iva Radivojevic Musician Antony Hegarty at the screening of the film TURNING. What would it feel like to have complete freedom from society, from art, from gender, from everything that oppresses us? For a brief moment, the women in Charles Atlas’s film, TURNING, are given that experience. The […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Megan Scanlon Film director Treva Wurmfeld with producer Amy Hobby at DOC NYC. When it comes to writing, Johnny Dark likes to go off on a tangent, saying that “the tangent is sometimes more interesting than the body you started off with.” And so it is with […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Carrie Nelson From left, directors Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief at DOC NYC. When one considers the concept of “women’s work,” a variety of careers may come to mind. Is solar engineer one of them? According to Bunker Roy, founder of India’s Barefoot College, it should be. […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Maggie Glass Director Alex Gibney, right, fielded questions at the DOC NYC screening of his film. With MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, acclaimed director Alex Gibney takes a subject known to most people–the widespread sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests–and puts a […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Carrie Nelson Director Seán Ó Cualáín at the DOC NYC screening of his film. At first glance, it may seem odd that Irish filmmaker Seán Ó Cualáín chose to make such a quintessentially New York City film. But MEN AT LUNCH isn’t simply about New York – […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Maggie Glass Director Malik Bendjelloul’s SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN is about so many things–the power of music, the bizarre nature of fame, Detroit (and by extension, America)–that it is a difficult film to summarize. It also contains a healthy amount of mystery, so DOC NYC director Thom Powers’s […]