Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her family to craft a portrait of love, grief, and intergenerational trauma. (Courtesy of Traveling Distribution) This film has English language closed captioning available. For more information about closed captions and accessibility at DOC NYC, please click here. Included with the screening ticket is an exclusive pre-recorded Q&A with Carol Nguyen (Director), […]
Presented in three programs, DOC NYC’s Short List for Shorts highlights 12 documentary shorts that impress us as the year’s leading awards contenders. Flower Punk | Director: Alison Klayman Japanese artist Azuma Makoto has sent his floral sculptures into space and sunk them to the bottom of the ocean, but, most of the time, he thinks […]
2020 SHORT LIST: DIRECTING AWARD Winner of the Sundance Documentary Directing Award, Time is one of the most critically lauded films of the year. Filmmaker Garrett Bradley focuses on Fox Rich, an entrepreneur, author, and mother of six, who has spent 21 years fighting for the release of her husband, Rob, from a 60-year prison […]
2013 SHORT DOCUMENTARY WINNER In 2007 I gave birth to my second child, Teddy. The pregnancy was easier than the first and the birth went relatively smoothly. A few hours after he was born he showed signs of infection and we soon found out that he had contracted a virus in utero – one that […]
The 11 members of the Enache family have long lived off the grid in a sprawling tract of wilderness adjacent to the city of Bucharest. When the authorities decide to reclaim this land, the family is evicted from their paradise and forced to resettle in the unfamiliar city. Through exceptional observational filmmaking, first-time filmmaker Radu […]
Each year, hundreds of thousands of children’s letters to Santa arrive at post offices around the country. The USPS attempts to make their Christmas wishes come true through a massive community organizing project known as Operation Santa. Through this initiative, volunteers are mobilized to adopt letters and bring holiday cheer (and gifts) to children nationwide, […]
2020 SHORTS SPECIAL JURY RECOGNITION FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY A lyrical portrait of an excommunicated Amish woodworker struggling with spirituality, poverty, and life as an outcast from his strict, insular community. This film has English language closed captioning available. For more information about closed captions and accessibility at DOC NYC, please click here. Included with the screening […]
Barry, a volunteer with The 9/11 Tribute Museum in New York City, shares the story of his son, a gifted young newlywed who was killed on 9/11. This film has English language closed captioning available. For more information about closed captions and accessibility at DOC NYC, please click here. Included with the screening ticket is […]
2020 SHORTS GRAND JURY PRIZE US PREMIERE | A daughter journeys to Taiwan seeking her mother’s long lost mother, uncovering family secrets and connecting the generations. This film has English language closed captioning available. For more information about closed captions and accessibility at DOC NYC, please click here. Included with the screening ticket is an exclusive […]
An exploration of who we are and where we come from. (TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 79 MIN) Motherland | Director: Ellen Evans Two young men are forcibly returned to Jamaica after a lifetime in Britain, as part of a controversial government policy on national identity. (UK, 13 MIN) Crescendo! | Director: Alex Mallis Acclaimed operatic tenor Michael Fabiano […]