Written by Laura Dattaro When audience members at the New York premiere of Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine were invited to ask questions after the screening, at first, no one had much to say. What do you say to the parents and close friend of a college student who was brutally murdered […]
Written by Laura Dattaro Some days, the stars of David Iverson’s documentary Capturing Grace can’t walk, or tie their shoes. But over the course of a year, they show up to a studio in Brooklyn and dance, learning choreography and improvisation to prepare for their first public performance. If it weren’t for the fact […]
Written by Megan Scanlon On Tuesday afternoon, Director Alan Hicks was generous with his time in front of an audience that expressed their admiration and appreciation for the first time filmmaker’s Keep On Keepin’ On, a documentary that took Hicks five years to make about the legendary jazz musician Clark Terry. “For me this […]
Written by Laura Dattaro Calling the 2010 BP disaster an “oil spill” is a huge misnomer. It was no spill — it was a rig explosion that killed 11 workers and left a deep-sea oil well open to gush millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf waters for months. And it was, […]
Written by Jenna Belhumeur At Tuesday afternoon’s screening of High School, the 1968 film directed by renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman, audience members revisited a classic exploration of an American institution. High School was his second film after Titicut Follies, a film that exposed life inside a prison for the insane. Wiseman is now […]
Written by Jacob Appet On Monday night, DOC NYC screened the world premiere of Kirsten D’Andrea Hollander’s Us, Naked: Trixie & Monkey. The film takes us into the private lives of two modern-day burlesque performers who go by the names Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey. Their unique performances combine impressive acrobatic feats […]
Written by Maggie Glass A young black man, Anthony Porter, is arrested for a double murder and put on death row. A passionate journalism professor and his students investigate the crime, find an alternate suspect, and successfully petition for Porter’s release just days before his scheduled execution. An ostensible triumph for justice — and yet, […]
Written by Jenna Belhumeur What happens when technology outpaces democratic oversight? Citizenfour answers just that. In Laura Poitras’s documentary, which screened Tuesday night at Chelsea’s Bow Tie Theater, viewers are invited into the fateful Hong Kong hotel room where Edward Snowden facilitated the publication of shocking NSA classified documents. Poitras appeared after the […]
Written by Krystal Grow When you’re responsible for manufacturing some of the most harmful and toxic products on the planet, presentation is everything, and nothing is as appears. Director Robert Kenner, who uncovered the capitalist complex behind the food processing industry in Food Inc., returns with another captivating documentary that exposes disturbing connections between […]
Written by Jenna Belhumeur In Abby Ginzberg’s documentary, Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa, viewers are taken through the fight against South African apartheid via the life of one of the country’s most noted activists. Following the film’s screening on Sunday at the SVA Theater, Ginzberg was joined onstage by Sachs for […]