This year, DOC NYC’s lineup features a film about the U.S.’s left. LONG DISTANCE REVOLUTIONARY: A JOURNEY WITH MUMIA ABU-JAMAL Unlike any other film, book, or article produced about Mumia Abu-Jamal, LONG DISTANCE REVOLUTIONARY focuses on his career as a prolific author and broadcaster from Pennsylvania’s Death Row. This riveting film centers on the period after Mumia is […]
This year, DOC NYC’s lineup includes a number of films investigating the issues surrounding the law and justice. WEST OF MEMPHIS Oscar–nominated director Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil) offers an inside look at the “West Memphis 3,” exploring how Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. The film chronicles the movement to […]
This year, DOC NYC’s lineup includes a number of films dealing with health and health care. FIGHT TO LIVE Two-time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY USA, AMERICAN DREAM) looks at terminally ill patients who are challenging the current Food & Drug Administration regulatory system for access to investigational therapies that they believe could be life saving. Woven […]
This year, DOC NYC features a number of films for those who are passionate about the art of cinema. THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY US PREMIERE The philosopher Slavoj Žižek is a world-class connoisseur of cinema. Here he teams with director Sophie Fiennes to riff on film clips for their ideological implications both overt and hidden. His eclectic […]
This year, DOC NYC’s lineup includes a number of films about the environment. THE LOST BIRD PROJECT This film is a documentary about the stories of five birds driven to extinction in modern times and sculptor Todd McGrain’s project to memorialize them. The film follows the road-trip that McGrain and his brother-in-law, Andy, take as they search for the locations […]
This year, DOC NYC’s lineup includes a number of films about a perennial hot-button issue, education. THE PREP SCHOOL NEGRO André Robert Lee revisits the life-changing events of his adolescence when he gained a way out of Philadelphia’s ghettos with a scholarship to an elite prep school. As he moved into a different world, he grew distant from […]
This year, DOC NYC’s lineup features a number of films and events that are likely to appeal strongly to members of the documentary community. DOC-A-THON Hear from leaders in the field discussing the state of the documentary industry and art. This year’s classes and panels include: Finish Your Doc masterclasses; Get The Money; Protect Your Rights; […]
This year, DOC NYC’s lineup includes a number of films about the practice of creating sequential art (otherwise known as comics). PERSISTENCE OF VISION Striving to make the greatest animated film of all time, visionary animator Richard Williams of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT toiled for more than a quarter century on his masterpiece, only to have it torn from […]
This year, DOC NYC’s lineup contains a number of films about the art of the still image, or those who practice the craft of photography. EDDIE ADAMS: SAIGON ’68 WORLD PREMIERE “Photographs do lie,” said Eddie Adams who took one of the Vietnam War’s most arresting photos of a point-blank execution. Filmmaker Douglas Sloan (ELLIOTT ERWITT: I BARK […]
Included in DOC NYC’s lineup this year are a number of films on the subject of art and artists. THE LOST BIRD PROJECT This film is a documentary about the stories of five birds driven to extinction in modern times and sculptor Todd McGrain’s project to memorialize them. THE LOST BIRD PROJECT follows the road-trip that McGrain and […]