A sampling of some of the festival’s most adventurous directorial works, the Viewfinders Competition features World Premieres of Kasamayaki, Almost There, Monsieur Le Président, and No Control, alongside the New York Premieres of The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest, Meet the Patels (pictured), All American High Revisted and more. Purchase your tickets now!
Don’t get shut out of screenings. Even when advanced tickets are no longer available for a DOC NYC show, you may still have a chance to get in. A limited number of tickets will be released to the rush line 15 minutes before showtime at the majority of screenings, on a first-come, first-served basis. Lines […]
For select films whose first screenings went quickly to rush only availability, we’ve added the following additional screenings: The Seven Five, a surprising tale of a police officer gone to the dark side, will screen again on Tuesday, November 18 at 5:05 pm at IFC. Tough Love (above), a moving look at custody battles, follows its sold-out show […]
This year, DOC NYC presents three late night screenings for our Midnight series. The world premiering Haunters is a sideways look at family businesses — more specifically, at a Michigan family’s homegrown haunted house run amok. Love And Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere goes into the stranger-than-fiction small town history of Chadron, Nebraska, and the haunting discovery […]
It’s here! DOC NYC is pleased to unveil the 2014 festival trailer, featuring clips from our 100+ films, from Do I Sound Gay? and Soul Boys of the Western World to CITIZENFOUR and Some Kind of Spark. Be sure to check it out at the link, and browse our playlist of film trailers while you’re at it. Special thanks to our friends at Wheelhouse Creative.
Laura Poitras (CITIZENFOUR) will receive DOC NYC’s first annual Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence, a $5000 prize to celebrate the work of a mid-career documentary maker upholding the traditions of observational cinema. The award will be formally presented at the DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute at the Park Restaurant at noon on November 14, in […]
As Tabitha Jackson approaches her first anniversary in the job, the Director of the Documentary Film Program at Sundance Institute shares some thoughts about the cultural value of documentary film, the role of Sundance Institute in the documentary landscape, and throws down a challenge to the non-fiction film community. Festival pass- and badge-holders will be admitted free on a first-come, first-served basis, […]
One of DOC NYC’s four brand new sections, Centerstage spotlights personalities in showbiz. The most famous producer you’ve never heard of, Michael White is the man behind such Broadway and West End hits as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Not without his share of setbacks, White’s bankruptcy and recent heart attack are portrayed in Gracie Otto’s […]
DOC NYC’s International Perspectives program offers viewers a glimpse into the lives of others from distant corners of the world. The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness is a behind-the-scenes look inside Tokyo’s world renown Studio Ghibli, the production company behind such animated classics as Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Pom Poko. A profile of two of the […]
Music lover? DOC NYC has you covered with our Sonic Cinema section, an exploration of everything from rock n’roll to symphonies to pop classics. Bela Fleck: How to Write A Banjo Concerto is the legendary musician’s autobiographical portrait (co-directed with his brother Sascha Paladino) that traces his creative process from first note to the premiere concert performance […]