USA PREMIERE Brazilian big-wave surfer Maya Gabeira pursues her dreams in the male-dominated sport as naysayers second-guess her every move. Filmmaker Stephanie Johnes follows the world champion over several years as she perseveres through setbacks, injuries, and a near-death experience while navigating the choppy waters of the competitive sports business. When Maya gets on the […]
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 […]
Anthony Bourdain touched countless lives as the best-selling author of Kitchen Confidential and globe-trotting TV host. His intensity, curiosity and humor radiated off the page and the television screen, leaving a tremendous sense of loss after his suicide in 2018. Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville creates a multi-sided portrait of Bourdain, drawing upon extensive unseen footage […]
Filmmaker Todd Haynes has previously portrayed fictionalized musicians in Velvet Goldmine and I’m Not There. Now he turns to documentary to explore The Velvet Underground and the 1960s New York scene of experimental art, music, and film. He conducts new interviews with surviving band members and eyewitnesses, including Jonathan Richman who brings vivid memories of […]
The Oscar-nominated directors of RBG deliver a touching portrait of the iconic television chef Julia Child. She defied expectations for women of her time by traveling abroad, mastering French cuisine, and then, in her fifties, becoming a celebrity on public television with The French Chef and inventing the genre of cooking shows. We watch how […]
This short plays as part of In Conversation with Joan Churchill. Filmmaker Joan Churchill, who is being honored this year with DOC NYC’s Lifetime Achievement Award, collaborates with Alan Barker on this personal portrait of legendary filmmakers Haskell Wexler, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus. Over a rollicking evening, they discuss filmmaking and what it means to […]
WORLD PREMIERE A captivating profile of Andrew Yang’s New York City mayoral campaign and how he got there. – Samah Ali This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Directors Sara Joe Wolansky and Gareth Smit. This screening is being played as part of the Shorts Program: New York, New York This film contains […]
US PREMIERE Filmmaker Alessandro Rossellini explores his complex family and the complicated legacy of his legendary grandfather, director Roberto Rossellini, the “father of Neorealism.” The son of Roberto’s oldest living child, Renzo, and the African American dancer Katherine Cohen, Alessandro previously directed the documentary Viva Ingrid!, profiling his grandfather’s third wife, Ingrid Bergman. Now in […]
NYC PREMIERE From the award-winning creative team behind Notes on Blindness and Listen to Me, Marlon comes a contemporary take on cinema’s most iconic figure. Combining previously unheard audio recordings, dramatic reconstructions, and photos and films from personal archives, the film traces Charlie Chaplin’s meteoric rise from the slums of Victorian London to the heights […]