Show Me the Money is the first part of our four-day Insiders Conference event (Nov. 16-19). Taking place at Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas on November 16, Show Me the Money provides filmmakers with tips on how to adjust to the changing landscape of documentary funding. Today’s breakfast is co-presented by The Screening Room. Today only! In honor of DOC NYC, come […]
Discover the latest DOC NYC videos on our Youtube page. Director Crystal Moselle and the Angulo brothers and their mother attended DOC NYC’s Short List selection The Wolfpack on Monday night. For the Angulo brothers’ entire lives, their universe has consisted of a Lower East Side apartment…and the movies. Prohibited from leaving their home, the six siblings instead allow their […]
Visit the DOC NYC photo gallery for exclusive photos of the many guests visiting the festival including Martin Scorsese, Barbara Kopple, Sharon Jones, Ethan Hawke, Davis Guggenheim and more. Above, directors Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones sit down to introduce the preview screening of Hitchcock/Truffaut. The full gallery is available here.
Deep Run is having a second screening on Tuesday, November 17th at 5:15PM at the IFC Center. Susan Sarandon, who served as an executive producer on the documentary, will be in attendance at the screening to introduce the film along with director Hillevi Loven, producers Chris Talbott and Samara Levenstein and subject Cole Ray Davis. […]
Written by Jenna Belhumeur Seymour: An Introduction, chosen by DOC NYC as one of the 15 standout films of the year, is a beautiful and poetic portrait of classical pianist and teacher Seymour Bernstein. The film marks Ethan Hawke’s first foray in the documentary world as a director. Hawke allows himself a minimal presence throughout […]
Written by Eugene Rosenberg As the essential twentieth-century academic phenomenon in the humanities, Cultural Anthropology has long served as an ideal subject for many dry, “by the numbers” documentaries. Furthermore, when applying much of their focus to the long established and well referenced superstar of the field, Margaret Mead, any documentary on the […]
Written by Jenna Belhumeur Friday night’s screening of Making a Murderer offers a taste of the latest trend in storytelling, investigative journalism as episodic entertainment. From favorites like the 12-episode podcast “Serial” to HBO’s addictive hit “The Jinx,” Making a Murderer is another real and captivating account of a criminal investigation, where audiences […]
Written by Susan Keyloun “It doesn’t take much to rile up the “outrage mob” these days. If you’re a comedian, there might be calls for your shows to be cancelled if someone takes offense at your joke. You might have to kiss your big, new gig good-bye. You could get fired. You could […]
By Tomás Salazar “I wouldn’t have called the film ‘Lucha Mexico’, I would had called it ‘The Shocker’s film.’” This statement was made by no one else but the “1000% Guapo” Shocker, the Luchador and main character of the film Lucha Mexico. While the film follows some of the stars of the Mexican Lucha […]
Former concert pianist Seymour Bernstein and actor/director/writer Ethan Hawke visited DOC NYC to present Seymour: An Introduction. More photos of the duo are available here.