Michèle Stephenson (American Promise, Slaying Goliath) talks about the challenges and opportunities for helping new voices thrive in documentary film. Attend this day’s events with an All Access Pass, DOC NYC PRO Pass, an Insiders Conference Pass, or Breaking In, New Road Maps Day Pass. Your pass also includes an onsite Bagel Breakfast 9:15-10, Happy […]
The world of new media, transmedia and new programs is a rapidly expanding and exciting space for new and emerging filmmakers. Adnaan Wasey (Executive Producer, POV Digital), Loira Limbal (Firelight Producer’s Lab) and Theresa Loong (Local Projects) discuss working in these new formats, and new ways to jumpstart your careers. Moderator: Yvonne Welbon (Chicken & […]
Directors and programmers Alex Hannibal (Tribeca Film Institute), Thomas Allen Harris (Through a Lens Darkly), Maria Agui Carter (Rebel) and Stephanie Wang-Breal (Tough Love) discuss the power of labs, retreats and workshops to facilitate growth and development. Moderator: Ela Troyano (Creative Capital) Attend this day’s events with an All Access Pass, DOC NYC PRO Pass, an Insiders […]
Emmy-winning filmmaker Jason Da Silva (When I Walk), Carla Fleisher (Film Sprout) and Joe Brewster (American Promise) explore how to make meaningful change with documentary films and innovative ways to fund impact campaigns. Moderator: Elise MacCave (BRITDOC). Attend this day’s events with an All Access Pass, DOC NYC PRO Pass, an Insiders Conference Pass, or […]
WORLD PREMIERE Miriam: Home Delivery offers an inside look at what some consider to be the world’s second-oldest profession: midwifery. As a homebirth midwife, Miriam performs a service once commonplace, but now increasingly rare as the process of childbirth firmly moved to a hospital setting. Juliet Jordan immerses viewers in Miriam’s mission, driving along with […]
NYC PREMIERE Martina, the director of a prominent NYC gallery, is an obsessive collector of the work of late outsider artist Roy Ferdinand, which chronicled a violent, sexual pre-Katrina New Orleans. When she meets Ferdinand’s sisters, they are drawn together by common experience: Martina too is haunted by the spectre of her own brother, the […]
US PREMIERE In Mexico, the war between good and evil has been waged each week for decades, thrilling generations of fans with the spectacle of Lucha Libre. Real-life superheroes and villains, these masked wrestlers work tirelessly to entertain their legions of fans. Gaining unprecedented access to the largest Lucha federations, Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz […]
US PREMIERE Demolishing stereotypes while avoiding wrecking their cars, the Speed Sisters are the Middle East’s first all-female race-car team. Demonstrating high-octane talent, and the marketing savvy to draw attention to their camera-friendly lineup, this diverse, engaging group competes in Palestine’s makeshift motor sports circuit across the West Bank, overcoming Israeli checkpoints and restrictive societal […]
2015 METROPOLIS COMPETITION WINNER NYC PREMIERE A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea intersection – 10th Avenue and 26th Street. On one side of the avenue, the Chelsea-Elliot Houses have provided low-income public housing to residents for decades. Their neighbor […]
WORLD PREMIERE What lies at the root of America’s fatherhood crisis? Daddy Don’t Go takes an intimate look at the struggles of four diverse, disadvantaged NYC fathers to beat the odds stacked against them and defy the deadbeat dad stereotype. Fighting against homelessness, unemployment, bureaucracy and, in some cases, a criminal past, Alex, Nelson, Roy […]