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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]