DOC NYC, NYC’s premier non-fiction event, has just announced the lineup for this year’s festival. The fourth edition of the festival is the largest yet, including 131 total films and panels over the eight days of the festival, which runs from Thursday, November 14 until Thursday, November 21, and includes a special evening of events as a preview the night before the fest’s official launch. Altogether, 72 new feature-length docs, 39 new shorts, and 20 panels will be presented, nearly all accompanied by Q&As with attending filmmakers.
As DOC NYC’s Senior Programmer, I’m excited to share this year’s selections with audiences. I’ll be profiling each section of the festival here in the weeks prior to our opening. For the time being, check out the links below for more information and to purchase tickets, which go on sale today.
Galas
High profile, must-see films:
THE UNKNOWN KNOWN (pictured)
Errol Morris
IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY? AN ANIMATED CONVERSATION WITH NOAM CHOMSKY
Michel Gondry
FINDING VIVIAN MAIER
John Maloof & Charlie Siskel
MARVIN HAMLISCH: WHAT HE DID FOR LOVE
Dori Berinstein
Special Events
Unique opportunities to encounter acclaimed and emerging filmmakers:
EMPTYING THE SKIES
Douglas Kass
INSIDE THE MIND OF LEONARDO: 3D
Julian Jones
THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (prologue)
Oliver Stone
WHAT IS CINEMA?
Chuck Workman
WHITE GOLD (pictured)
Simon Trevor
Plus four free panels!
Viewfinders
Competition celebrating distinct directorial visions:
THE DARK MATTER OF LOVE
Sarah McCarthy
SOLE SURVIVOR (pictured)
Ky Dickens
URANIUM DRIVE-IN
Suzan Beraza
screening with Helen Hood Scheer’s THE APOTHECARY
WE ALWAYS LIE TO STRANGERS
AJ Schnack & David Wilson
WEB
Michael Kleiman
A WILL FOR THE WOODS
Amy Browne, Jeremy Kaplan, Tony Hale & Brian Wilson
A WORLD NOT OURS
Mahdi Fleifel
Metropolis
Competition highlighting diverse New York stories:
EXPOSED
Beth B
A FRAGILE TRUST: PLAGIARISM, POWER AND JAYSON BLAIR AT THE NEW YORK TIMES
Samantha Grant
HERE ONE DAY
Kathy Leichter
I LEARN AMERICA
Jean-Michel Dissard & Gitte Peng
LUCKY
Laura Checkoway
MISFIRE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SHOOTING GALLERY
Whitney Ransick
PATROLMAN P
Ido Mizrahy
THE PLEASURES OF BEING OUT OF STEP
David L Lewis
THE SARNOS: A LIFE IN DIRTY MOVIES (pictured)
Wiktor Ericsson
American Perspectives
Stories from around the US:
AMERICAN COMMUNE
Rena Mundo Croshere & Nadine Mundo
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS
Grace Lee
BREASTMILK
Dana Ben-Ari
CITIZEN KOCH
Carl Deal & Tia Lessin
GERALDINE FERRARO: PAVING THE WAY
Donna Zaccaro
HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY (pictured)
Therese Shechter
KIDS FOR CASH
Robert May
REBUILDING THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
Marcus Robinson
screening with Trish Dalton’s BORDERING ON TREASON
TOWN HALL
Sierra Pettengill & Jamila Wignot
TOXIC HOT SEAT
James Redford & Kirby Walker
UNORTHODOX
Anna Wexler & Nadja Oertelt
screening with Sarah Berkovich’s THE BULLETPROOF STOCKINGS
International Perspectives
A global lens:
THE ABOMINABLE CRIME
Micah Fink
screening with Jason Cohen’s FACING FEAR
BRAVE MISS WORLD
Cecilia Peck
THE MANOR
Shawney Cohen
THE ROAD TO FAME (pictured)
Hao Wu
screening with Vanessa Hope’s CHINA IN THREE WORDS
THE STUART HALL PROJECT
John Akomfrah
THINGS LEFT BEHIND
Linda Hoaglund
TOUBA
E Chai Vasarhelyi
THE TRACES OF DR ERNESTO GUEVARA
Jorge Denti
Art + Design
A new section this year focused on creativity across multiple disciplines, from photography and product design to graffiti and tailoring:
GREY CITY (CIDADE CINZA)
Marcelo Mesquita & Guilherme Valiengo
IF YOU BUILD IT
Patrick Creadon
IN NO GREAT HURRY: 13 LESSONS IN LIFE WITH SAUL LEITER (pictured)
Tomas Leach
LEVITATED MASS: THE STORY OF MICHAEL HEIZER’S MONOLITHIC SCULPTURE
Doug Pray
MAGICAL UNIVERSE
Jeremy Workman
MEN OF THE CLOTH
Vicki Vasilopoulos
TINY: A STORY ABOUT LIVING SMALL
Merete Mueller & Christopher Smith
screening with Kevin A Fraser’s TWENTY EIGHT FEET: LIFE ON A LITTLE WOODEN BOAT
Sonic Cinema
A diverse showcase on music:
DEATH METAL ANGOLA
Jeremy Xido
FOLK
Sara Terry
HARLEM STREET SINGER
Trevor Laurence & Simeon Hutner
MERCEDES SOSA: THE VOICE OF LATIN AMERICA
Rodrigo H Vila
THE PUNK SINGER
Sini Anderson
REVENGE OF THE MEKONS
Joe Angio
WE DON’T WANNA MAKE YOU DANCE (pictured)
Lucy Kostelanetz
Midnight Docs
Late-night films to stay up late for:
THE FINAL MEMBER
Jonah Bekhor & Zach Math
HUNGRY (pictured)
Jeff Cerulli & Barry Rothbart
KINK
Christina Voros
SHOOTING BIGFOOT
Morgan Matthews
Short List
Some of the strongest docs of the year, just in time for Awards season:
20 FEET FROM STARDOM (pictured)
Morgan Neville
THE ACT OF KILLING
Joshua Oppenheimer
BLACKFISH
Gabriela Cowperthwaite
THE CRASH REEL
Lucy Walker
DIRTY WARS
Richard Rowley
FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED
Alan Berliner
GIDEON’S ARMY
Dawn Porter
GOD LOVES UGANDA
Roger Ross Williams
THE SQUARE
Jehane Noujaim
STORIES WE TELL
Sarah Polley
Shorts Programs
Celebrating storytelling in brief:
BLOOD IS THICKER… – on family bonds
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT – on youth (pictured)
MAN & BEAST – on people and their animals
OBSESSIONS – on collectors, curiosity seekers, and compulsives
PEOPLE & PLACES – on unexpected environments
THEN & NOW – on nostalgia and changing times
Doc-A-Thon
Our series of 16 panels and masterclasses, exposing filmmakers to notable non-fiction creators over four thematic days:
SHOOT YOUR DOC
FINISH YOUR DOC
FUND YOUR DOC
REACH YOUR AUDIENCE
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