Hunter’s MFA Program in Integrated Media Arts (IMA) offers advanced studies in nonfiction media making. The IMA Program educates multi-disciplinary, socially engaged media makers in a diverse range of skills across the media landscape. Working with faculty from film, video, emerging media, and journalism backgrounds, students learn to conceptualize, create, and distribute innovative, politically and […]
High schooler Calvin Mumm speaks with other teenagers as they reflect on studying in a time where mass school shootings are the norm. Included with the screening ticket is an exclusive pre-recorded Q&A with Calvin Mumm (Director), immediately following the film. This film is part of the shorts program SHORTS: ALL THAT MATTERS
A post-abortion grieving ritual in Japanese Buddhism called “water child memorial” inspires this intimate look at a reexamination of abortion ethics. Included with the screening ticket is an exclusive pre-recorded Q&A with Kira Dane (Co-Director), immediately following the film. This film is part of the shorts program SHORTS: IN THIS LIFE
WORLD PREMIERE | Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for whom legal arguments are daily currency, examines her handbags, revealing a corner of a mind that has argued and won historic cases. This film has English language closed captioning available. For more information about closed captions and accessibility at DOC NYC, please click here. Included with the screening […]
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In 1971, on Thanksgiving Day, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a commercial flight, holding passengers ransom for $200K. After his demands were met, he freed the hostages, forced the plane back in the air, and escaped mid-flight via parachute, never to be heard from again. Combining meticulous archival footage, stylish re-enactments, and in-person […]
WORLD PREMIERE | Iconoclastic historian Andrew Bacevich delivers an anti-colonial critique of US foreign policy in the Middle East, informed by his long career in the Army. While other historians analyze changing presidential administrations, Bacevich sees one long Oil War. There are scant differences between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the sacrifice of soldiers’ lives. […]
The News and Documentary program at NYU Journalism prepares students to report and produce short- and long-form video journalism for traditional and non-traditional media. From the first class, students are on the streets reporting, shooting, and editing. The program’s goal is to have students skilled in both form and content, effectively using all aspects of […]
Students in the one-year Documentary Specialization program at Columbia learn to write, film, and narrate the stories of our time, from deadline reporting to profile writing and audio stories. Program alumni have been awarded the Student Academy Award and BAFTA Student Award, published their work online, sold their films to broadcasters and to Netflix, and […]
The New School Documentary Media Studies program provides an opportunity to study documentary filmmaking—production and theory—in a small, tightly focused program. The program culminates in a student documentary festival, Truth Be Told, at the end of each school year, at which certificate students’ films are publicly screened and discussed by the filmmakers and faculty. Certificate […]