Quotable Quotables
Look at all the nice things everyone is saying about us!
“In its fourth year, DOC NYC, another New York upstart, has boldfaced its claim to being the country’s largest documentary festival. This year’s lineup, which includes 73 features (12 more than last year), 39 shorts, and an array of events, is the biggest yet. It is also, I’m pleased to report, easily the best.” – Michelle Orange, The Village Voice
“What was that about eight million stories in the naked city? With 73 feature films, 39 shorts, and panels and discussions, the weeklong DOC NYC gives New Yorkers even more to chew on.” – Rachel Saltz, The New York Times
“Real life, made realer. Too many highlights to name, but check out Michel Gondry’s animated (literally, like cartoons) conversations with Noam Chomsky in Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? and Sini Anderson’s inspiring portrait of the riot-grrrl heroine Kathleen Hanna in The Punk Singer. Errol Morris takes on Donald Rumsfeld in the gala opening, The Unknown Known—and Morris takes on me November 15, in conversation at the IFC Center.” – David Edelstein, New York Magazine
“In its fourth year, DOC NYC, now the largest documentary festival in the U.S., will host panels and events featuring Errol Morris, Sarah Polley, Oliver Stone, Michel Gondry, Ricki Lake, Jonathan Franzen, Grace Lee Boggs, Jehane Moujaim and other filmmakers. With such a wealth of rich material, it wasn’t easy to pare down the list of 132 films being shown at DOC NYC to these 10 titles and they are by no means the only films worth seeing.” – Paula Bernstein, Eric Kohn & Ramzi De Coster, Indiewire
“It should come as little surprise that Gotham’s own DOC NYC – the largest documentary film festival in the country – has knocked out a very impressive lineup for this year’s fest, but that doesn’t make the breadth and depth of available offerings any less exciting. Only in its fourth year, the fest has already scheduled over one hundred films for screening, along with twenty different events. These are specs that would sing at any festival, but they really shout when it comes to a fest entirely devoted to documentary storytelling.” – Kate Erbland, Film School Rejects
“Now in its fourth year, DOC NYC has cemented itself as one of our favorite festivals of the cultural calendar. Serving up over 100 documentary-tinged happenings over the course of its all-too-short week run, the festival stirs conversation with a mix of short and feature-length works followed by Q&As, and panel discussions focused on the business and making of film.” – Mindy Bond, Flavorpill New York
“Attention all documentary fans, tech nerds, graff heads, and Mercedes Sosa groupies DOC NYC has lots for you to see. Running November 14 – 21, in downtown Manhattan at the IFC Center and SVA Theatre, it’s the biggest documentary-only film festival in New York. It’s like the comic-con of docs!” – Vanessa Erazo, Remezcla
