Who will be this year’s winner? Only you can decide! Cast your votes for this year’s DOC NYC Audience Award. It’s easy! Voting will be open from November 13 at 8:00pm ET to November 23 at 11:59pm ET. Voting can be done two ways: Voting via your customer account for tickets you have purchased: First, […]
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Alexa Whyte. This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Cinepolis ChelseaClosed Captioning for online screenings All in-person screening venues provide hearing impaired listening devices upon request with venue management. All guests & staff will be […]
The votes are in… and the winner of DOC NYC’s 2021 Audience Award is THE REVEREND! Vince Anderson made his way to New York to enter the seminary, but his true calling, music, changed his life forever. With his band, The Love Choir, Vince’s now-legendary weekly show became an institution in the Brooklyn music scene. Through powerful […]
Our programming team is calling out some of their favorites from this year’s festival, and we’re offering special discounted tickets to in-person screenings of those titles for only $10. Features Programmer Ruth Somalo is behind today’s selections. Read on to discover these documentary gems, and get tickets for almost half off the regular price! Get […]
Screens Friday, November 12 at 2:00pm (IFC Center) – purchase tickets here Selma Blair made her name as an actress in Hollywood hits such as Cruel Intentions and Legally Blonde. But in 2018, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. As she adapts to living with the illness with humor and unflinching candor, filmmaker Rachel Fleit documents […]
Joan Churchill, the recipient of DOC NYC’s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award, has a prodigious career. She started as a cameraperson on films such as Gimme Shelter and Jimi Plays Berkeley; and co-directed several films with Nick Broomfield including Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer and Soldier Girls. In this live conversation moderated by […]
Oppressed (un)intentionally by the hands of the state, this special focus examines migration, status and citizenship in the Americas. (Total Running Time: 101 MIN) Elena | Director: Michèle Stephenson Following up on her film STATELESS, Director Michèle Stephenson chronicles one woman’s journey fighting the Dominican Republic’s anti-Black laws revoking citizenship for people with Haitian ancestry. […]
This chilling reflection examines the horrific history of lynchings as cultural events and celebrations that included souvenirs and postcards. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Christine Turner. This short is part of the program SHORTLIST BLOCK #4: COMPLICATED HISTORIES Courtesy of MTV Documentary FIlms This film contains the following accessibility options […]
Setting the standard for modern marketing as we know it, Coded unpacks illustrator J.C. Leyendecker’s advertisements that animated his male partner and became an easter egg of queer coding in art. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Ryan White. This short is part of the program SHORTLIST BLOCK #4: COMPLICATED HISTORIES […]
WORLD PREMIERE Camp Confidential reveals the secret government-sanctioned camp that smuggled Nazis into the United States after World War II, as camp workers come forward for the first time in history. The November 18th screening will be followed by a Q&A with Directors Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy. This short is part of the program […]