Short-form documentaries have been booming in recent years thanks to major players such as Netflix, TIME Studios, Field of Vision, POV, MTV, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. DOC NYC’s Short List for Shorts, organized by Shorts Programmer Samah Ali, highlights 12 doc shorts that impress us as the year’s leading awards contenders. […]
Director Peter Nicks is the recipient of DOC NYC’s 2021 Robert and Anne Drew Award that honors excellence in observational documentary. Following his films The Waiting Room and The Force, Homeroom completes a thematic trilogy exploring different institutions in Oakland, California. Here, we follow the senior class of Oakland High School through the tumultuous year […]
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson, a DOC NYC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, has a distinguished career telling stories of Black struggle against white supremacy. He teams with co-director Traci A. Curry to revisit the largest prison uprising in U.S. history at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York in 1971. The filmmakers conduct dozens of new […]
WORLD PREMIERE The Plywood Project places art and NYC artists at the center of the movement for civic and social justice. Elyse Wang This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Daniel Zambrano, Producers Valerie Guevara and Alejandra Ramirez and film subject Eve Moros Ortega. This short will screen as part of the […]
WORLD PREMIERE Dynamite blasts echo through canyons as construction for the southern border threatens flora and fauna for centuries to come. – Samah Ali This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Daniel Lombroso. This screening is being played as part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: OUR IMPACT/OUR CRISIS All guests & staff will […]
NYC PREMIERE The indigenous people of the Darién Gap rainforest work with conservationists to use their heritage and traditions to protect the endangered Vulture Eagle and, in turn, protect their community. – DeWitt Davis This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Daniel Byers and Producers Katrin Redfern and Andrew Stern. This screening […]
WORLD PREMIERE One woman’s story of how she transformed “Running while Black” into an act of protest in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. – Elyse Wang This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Co-Directors Nattalyee Randall and Jessica Cornelio, Producers Elijah Settles and Luke Welchel and film subjects Coffey and Nova […]
NYC PREMIERE A young poet grapples with his city’s racist history while protests against police brutality spread across the country. – Samah Ali This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Anissa latham. This screening is being played as part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: PROFILES All guests & staff will be required to comply […]
NYC PREMIERE A close look at the people fighting for accessibility on New York City’s MTA – Samah Ali This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Producer Branton Choi and film subject Sasha Blair-Goldensohn. This screening is being played as part of the Shorts Program: New York, New York This film contains the […]
NYC PREMIERE Kinderland uses the nostalgia of summer camp to explore communism, socialism, and what it takes to educate the next generation. – Elyse Wang This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Amy Grappell and Producer Jessica Wolfson . This screening is being played as part of the Shorts Program: The People […]