Already a can’t-miss event in only its second year, the 2015 DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute will gather an unprecedented group of documentary talent on Thursday, November 12 to to recognize those who perform exemplary service to the documentary form. Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented to Barbara Kopple, Frederick Wiseman and Jon Alpert. The Robert and Anne […]
In the 1960s and ‘70s, a group of NYC-based artists abandoned the constraints of gallery spaces and the demands of the marketplace, moving to the expanse of the American Southwest to engage in a radical reconceptualization of their artistic practice. Turning to nature, acclaimed artists like Michael Heizer (Double Negative) and Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty) […]
WORLD PREMIERE Finding unexpected beauty in the overlooked, discarded and decayed, photographer Rosamond Purcell has developed a body of work that has garnered international acclaim, fruitful collaborations with writers such as Stephen Jay Gould and admirers like Errol Morris. An Art That Nature Makes details Purcell’s fascination with the natural world – from a mastodon […]
Jon Alpert (DCTV) and Sheila Nevins (HBO Documentary Films) present the world premiere of a new documentary short, followed by a keynote conversation and reception co-presented by HBO Documentary Films. In Alpert’s new film, Mariela Castro’s March: Cuba’s LGBT Revolution, Cuban Congresswoman Mariela Castro – daughter of Raúl and niece of Fidel Castro – confronts decades of cultural and institutional homophobia to serve as a tireless champion of […]
“This film is incredibly moving” – Village Voice Hitchcock/Truffaut draws upon the recordings of the famous week-long conversation where Francois Truffaut interviewed Alfred Hitchcock about his whole career. Director Kent Jones (who also runs the New York Film Festival) expands their conversation with a generous helping of film clips from Vertigo, The Birds, Psycho and […]
WORLD PREMIERE Netflix presents an exclusive preview of a captivating documentary crime series. Filmed over a ten-year period, Making a Murderer is an unprecedented real-life thriller about a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime. Set in America’s […]
NYC PREMIERE The head of an apiary school, nearing the end of his career, worries there’s no one to carry on his work with bees. This film is followed by AN ART THE NATURE MAKES: THE WORK OF ROSAMOND PURCELL
US PREMIERE Sharon Jones is a true soul survivor. She’s been called “the female James Brown” for the energy she brings to the stage backed by her band The Dap-Kings. In Miss Sharon Jones!, we follow her on an emotional journey as she goes through chemotherapy and struggles to mount a comeback show at New […]
NYC PREMIERE Since her death from a heroin overdose in 1970 at age 27, Janis Joplin has been a ubiquitous presence on posters, t-shirts and classic rock radio. This documentary transforms the icon back into a human being. The film excavates unseen material, interviews Joplin’s confidants and uncovers personal letters. The resulting portrait gives us […]
WORLD PREMIERE The 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference was a watershed event in the global struggle for women’s rights. Now, on its 20th anniversary, the film MAKERS: Once and For All, dedicated to women’s stories, retraces the suspenseful months leading up to Beijing and the high-stakes drama of the event itself. Oscar nominee and Emmy winner […]