Jon Alpert co-founded New York’s Downtown Community Television (DCTV), the country’s oldest non-profit community media center. He is the winner of 16 Emmy Awards and the recipient of four DuPont-Columbia Awards; his documentaries include One Year in the Life of Crime, Baghdad ER, and the Oscar-nominated shorts China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province and Redemption. Alpert’s latest film is Mariela Castro’s March: […]
Sheila Nevins is President of HBO Documentary Films and has overseen documentaries for the channel for over 30 years. She has supervised the production of over 1,000 documentary programs for HBO. As an executive producer or producer, she has received 32 Primetime Emmy Awards, 34 News and Documentary Emmys, and 42 George Foster Peabody Awards. […]
Errol Morris has been a continuous innovator in the documentary form with films such as The B-Side, Gates of Heaven; Vernon, Florida; The Thin Blue Line; Fast, Cheap & Out of Control; Mr. Death; the Oscar-winning The Fog of War; and Standard Operating Procedure and the Netflix series Wormwood. His film Tabloid was the Closing Night Film of DOC NYC’s first year in 2010; […]
Michael Apted is the director of the ground-breaking 7 Up series, a study of the British class system that brings forth a new film every seven years. The latest film in his series, 63 Up, presented by BritBox, will be released in fall 2019. His other documentaries include Married in America; Me & Isaac Newton; […]
Martin Scorsese has interwoven documentary making throughout his distinguished career. His latest nonfiction work is Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story. Among his other acclaimed nonfiction films are The 50 Year Argument; George Harrison: Living in the Material World; No Direction Home: Bob Dylan; The Blues; My Voyage to Italy; The Last Waltz; A […]
Anita is passionate about telling stories of minorities and having their voices heard through film and art. She is currently the Shorts Programmer and Program Manager for the Nantucket Film Festival and has done stints at Tribeca Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, and more. Anita grew up in Rome, Italy but […]
Allyson Morgan is a writer, producer, performer, and the founder and Executive Director of the award-winning film and theatre collective F*It Club. Her film festival work has included Brooklyn Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Indie Street Film Festival, NewFest, and Nantucket Film Festival. She also serves as a producer for […]
Valerie is an Associate Producer of DOC NYC’s Industry and Education programming, including DOC NYC PRO; Only In New York industry meetings for filmmakers with works-in-progress; and the 40 Under 40 list. Before joining DOC NYC, she served as Director of Exhibitor Relations and In-Theater Marketing at film distributors, A24 and Greenwich Entertainment.
Christine Turner is an award-winning filmmaker based in New York City. Most recently, she directed Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business (Sundance 2020) about the 93-year-old artist. Previously, her documentary Homegoings (Documentary Fortnight at MoMA 2013) about a renowned funeral director in Harlem, aired on PBS POV.
Nanfu Wang is a Chinese filmmaker based in New York City. She directed and produced the feature documentaries Hooligan Sparrow (Sundance 2016, shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), I Am Another You (SXSW 2017, Special Jury Prize winner), and One Child Nation (Sundance 2019, Grand Jury Prize Winner, shortlisted for the 2020 Academy Award for Best Documentary […]