Winner of the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, Winter on Fire supplies a visceral, in-depth look at the bloody Ukrainian uprising in 2013-14 that led to the overthrow of President Yanukovych. Filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky makes the complicated politics approachable with vibrant characters, brisk pacing and well-deployed graphics. He uses multiple […]
NYC PREMIERE Gus is obsessed with wrestling, perhaps disturbingly so. Ebony is nervous about nailing her audition to a performing arts school. Matt, raised with religion, is flirting with atheism. Graham has to contend with his difficulties reading and a family move to Fiji. They’re all very different preteens, but they have one thing in […]
WORLD PREMIERE Nicole Groton’s candidly personal film chronicles the episodes that led a single nuclear unit to grow exponentially through seven divorces and remarriages, becoming a revealing portrait of modern-day families. Home videos anchor the filmmaker’s memories of a complex childhood, while family members deconstruct 20 years of romances, adulteries, births and unexpected deaths, and […]
WORLD PREMIERE At once intimately personal and expansively universal, Peter Odabashian’s bittersweet reflection on friendship and happiness demonstrates the power of an intentional community of kindred spirits on one’s life. Through affectionate, free-flowing interviews with an eclectic group of longtime friends his wife Esther and he have made both in NYC and in their home […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE After her sons died and she could no longer conceive, Maggi chose the intellectually disabled Chun-hee as a second wife for her husband to continue the family line. Forty-five years later, and after their husband has passed, the two elderly women continue to share a life, but Maggi worries about Chun-hee’s fate […]
Director Asif Kapadia follows his BAFTA-winning documentary Senna with this haunting portrait of singer Amy Winehouse. Featuring extensive unseen archival footage and previously unheard tracks, the film restores humanity to a figure who had become a tabloid caricature. Winehouse captured the world’s attention with her unforgettable voice and charisma, but the pressures of celebrity and […]
During the contentious 1968 presidential election, ABC News changed television by hosting a series of live, televised debates between political polar opposites: William F. Buckley, Jr., the founder of the National Review and a leader of the new conservative movement; and to his left – far, far left – Gore Vidal, a liberal Democrat and […]
Against a backdrop of civil unrest and the radical transformation of American society in the mid-1960s, the black nationalist organization known as the Black Panthers emerged as leaders of the expected revolution. Interweaving fascinating archival material with gripping first-hand accounts from members of the group’s rank and file, director Stanley Nelson’s definitive history reveals the […]
The students selected for this prestigious program are trained to be independent film producers and directors. Under the direction of Professors June Cross and Betsy West, they undertake courses in journalism, documentary production, visual storytelling, camerawork and editing, and they receive one-on-one coaching from a faculty adviser. Students also learn the business side of documentaries—negotiating […]
New York Film Academy offers an array of programs designed to educate talented and committed documentary filmmakers in a hands-on, total immersion, professional and supportive environment. At The Academy, students learn to make documentaries by making documentaries. Named one of the 10 Best Documentary Programs by Independent magazine, New York Film Academy boasts a distinguished […]