WORLD PREMIERE Nobody loved New York as much as Harold Feinstein, as evidenced through his extraordinary portraits of ordinary New Yorkers. Working in lush black-and-white 35mm film, Feinstein, a stellar yet under-recognized photographer, captures the beauty, joy and diversity of NYC’s greatest treasure, its people. With an emphasis on New Yorkers at play in his […]
NYC PREMIERE Before Walt Disney, there was a trailblazing woman at the vanguard of animation. Influenced by folktales and legends, Lotte Reiniger was a tour de force of creativity and innovation: she invented the multiplane camera and created the oldest surviving animated feature. This stunning film explores the life and times of a woman who […]
NYC PREMIERE In Chuck Workmans’s montage/documentary with over 125 moments from significant documentaries of the past 100 years from Nanook to RBG with short remarks from significant filmmakers like Barbara Kopple, Ken Burns, Michael Moore, Ava DuVernay, Frederick Wiseman and others.
WORLD PREMIERE Music and clowns are my brother’s two great passions in life. Jamie is close to nonverbal so the rest of the family are left filing in the gaps when we discuss what life is like for him. Our differing perspectives show as much about us as they do Jamie.
Following the death of his emotionally distant father, filmmaker Charlie Tyrell seeks to better understand him through the personal belongings he left behind… including a stack of dirty VHS tapes. Courtesy of New York Times Op-Docs
A man battling reclusion and a racehorse on the brink of death save each other in unexpected ways.
Painting the Town is a short-form documentary film that offers a view upon Detroit’s surging independent movement of street art and graffiti. This once renegade art form – often expressed in massive building-sized murals – depicts subjects, both abstract and whimsical, as well as deeply personal. How is this medium changing the face of Detroit, […]
NYC PREMIERE 83 year old John Arnao, a 23 year veteran of the NYPD, uses his love and skills from a lifetime of woodworking to craft beautiful works of art. In a world where everyone uses social media and technology to pass the time, this is the way John chooses to use his while leaving […]
WORLD PREMIERE Born to a family of celebrated fashion photographers, and with a terminal disease that gave him a fearless approach to life and art, Davide Sorrenti took 1990s New York City by storm. Possessed of natural talent and tuned in to youth culture, he landed magazine spreads in Interview while still a teen. As […]
US veterans and active-duty service members come together through a workshop led by poet Seema Reza to combat their traumatic military pasts via the written word. Sharing fears, vulnerabilities and victories, their writing becomes a tool for empowerment and healing culminating in the live performance of a collaborative poem under the direction of Jeffrey Wright. […]