NYC PREMIERE Oscar®-winning director Kirk Simon (Strangers No More) examines the rich legacy of the Pulitzer Prize. Established in 1917, the award recognizes excellence in American arts and journalism. The film surveys the compelling stories of artists who have won the prestigious prize. Interviews include journalists Nicholas Kristof and David Remnick; novelists Toni Morrison and […]
NYC PREMIERE Produced in association with The Beatles’ legendary producer, the late Sir George Martin, this upcoming PBS series ably takes on the daunting challenge of chronicling the history of music recording and producing. Organized thematically, each episode features scores of original interviews with some of the most celebrated recording artists of all time, from […]
WORLD PREMIERE Captive is a highly anticipated Netflix doc series, backed by two-time Oscar-winning producer Simon Chinn (Man on Wire, Searching for Sugar Man) and executive producer Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity). Each episode looks at a hostage situation from the viewpoints of the victims, kidnappers and negotiators. Cola Kidnap, directed by DOC NYC alum […]
WORLD PREMIERE The City of Joy is a community for women survivors of violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Opened in 2011, the project was founded by Eve Ensler, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Christine Schuler Deschryver and supported by V-Day. The film chronicles the institution’s first class of resilient women as they process their […]
WORLD PREMIERE When he is only seven years old, a young boy confronts his mother’s first attempts at suicide. He responds the only way he knows how: beginning an enumerated list of “brilliant things” worth living for, from “things with stripes” to “water fights.” As he grows, so does the list, following this boy through subsequent […]
NYC PREMIERE After a two-year period during which numerous women were reported missing in Cleveland’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood, a reported rape leads police to a grisly discovery: a serial killer, operating virtually in plain sight. Why had police failed to investigate the missing-persons cases? Why did neighbors turn a blind eye to the killer’s activities? […]
Special offer: 5 for $5 sale on this film ends at midnight, Nov 5. NYC PREMIERE Even as a child, Enrique Metinides was obsessed with images, photographing car accidents in his Mexico City neighborhood and snapping pictures at the local morgue. Tabloids soon started publishing his photos, beginning his three-decade career as a crime photographer. Through Metinides’s compelling […]
NYC PREMIERE Offering a sensitive investigation of a disturbing true-life crime, Irene Taylor Brodsky chronicles the 2014 case of a pair of 12-year-old Wisconsin girls who attempted to murder their friend to appease the Slenderman, an Internet bogeyman they were convinced otherwise would harm their families. In the wake of this strange crime, the girls’ […]
NYC PREMIERE On March 30, 1985, a small Virginia community was shocked by the brutal murders of wealthy residents Derek and Nancy Haysom. Suspicion soon fell on their daughter Elizabeth and her boyfriend Jens Söring, the son of a German diplomat. After a high-profile, televised trial – the first of its kind – the prosecution […]
NYC PREMIERE Rudy Kurniawan, an unassuming young Indonesian man, makes a splash when he begins to attend specialty wine auctions. An apparent wine savant, his aggressive buying helps lead the wave that sees fine wine prices skyrocket before the 2008 financial crisis. Kurniawan amasses $35 million from auctioning off rare wines from his own collection. […]