This year, DOC NYC presents three late night screenings for our Midnight series. The world premiering Haunters is a sideways look at family businesses — more specifically, at a Michigan family’s homegrown haunted house run amok. Love And Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere goes into the stranger-than-fiction small town history of Chadron, Nebraska, and the haunting discovery […]
It’s here! DOC NYC is pleased to unveil the 2014 festival trailer, featuring clips from our 100+ films, from Do I Sound Gay? and Soul Boys of the Western World to CITIZENFOUR and Some Kind of Spark. Be sure to check it out at the link, and browse our playlist of film trailers while you’re at it. Special thanks to our friends at Wheelhouse Creative.
As Tabitha Jackson approaches her first anniversary in the job, the Director of the Documentary Film Program at Sundance Institute shares some thoughts about the cultural value of documentary film, sets out the role of Sundance Institute in the documentary landscape, and throws down a challenge to the non-fiction film community. Individual tickets aren’t for […]
Laura Poitras (CITIZENFOUR) will receive DOC NYC’s first annual Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence, a $5000 prize to celebrate the work of a mid-career documentary maker upholding the traditions of observational cinema. The award will be formally presented at the DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute at the Park Restaurant at noon on November 14, in […]
As Tabitha Jackson approaches her first anniversary in the job, the Director of the Documentary Film Program at Sundance Institute shares some thoughts about the cultural value of documentary film, the role of Sundance Institute in the documentary landscape, and throws down a challenge to the non-fiction film community. Festival pass- and badge-holders will be admitted free on a first-come, first-served basis, […]
One of DOC NYC’s four brand new sections, Centerstage spotlights personalities in showbiz. The most famous producer you’ve never heard of, Michael White is the man behind such Broadway and West End hits as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Not without his share of setbacks, White’s bankruptcy and recent heart attack are portrayed in Gracie Otto’s […]
DOC NYC’s International Perspectives program offers viewers a glimpse into the lives of others from distant corners of the world. The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness is a behind-the-scenes look inside Tokyo’s world renown Studio Ghibli, the production company behind such animated classics as Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Pom Poko. A profile of two of the […]
Music lover? DOC NYC has you covered with our Sonic Cinema section, an exploration of everything from rock n’roll to symphonies to pop classics. Bela Fleck: How to Write A Banjo Concerto is the legendary musician’s autobiographical portrait (co-directed with his brother Sascha Paladino) that traces his creative process from first note to the premiere concert performance […]
In their first New York appearance since 1983, the British New Wavers of Spandau Ballet will reunite for the DOC NYC premiere of Soul Boys of the Western World. Founded in the late ’70s, Spandau Ballet ruled the airwaves through the 1980s, emerging from the New Romantic era to dominate the pop charts for much of […]
A gun-rights activist, Cody Wilson made headlines in 2013 when his company, Defense Distributed, published plans for the “Liberator,” a pistol reproducible by a 3D printer. In speaking about his rationale behind the design, Wilson told Glenn Beck, “This is a symbol of reversibility. They can never eradicate the gun from the earth.” The artist Greg […]