Today’s DOC NYC 2015 preview begins with a look at the films of the Viewfinders competition, highlighting works with distinct directorial visions.
Viewfinders
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST
Directors: Seth Kramer, Daniel A Miller, and Jeremy Newberger
WORLD PREMIERE
Parallel stories of two female anthropologists: trailblazer Margaret Mead and contemporary Susie Crate.
Expected to attend: Directors Seth Kramer, Daniel A Miller, and Jeremy Newberger, Subjects Mary Catherine Bateson, Susie Crate, and Katie Yegorov-Crate
BARGE
Director: Ben Powell
NYC PREMIERE
A portrait of characters working on a Mississippi barge headed to New Orleans.
Expected to attend: Director Ben Powell
BLUESPACE
Director: Ian Cheney
WORLD PREMIERE
An expedition to two planets: Earth, with its rising seas, and Mars, with the promise of colonization.
Expected to attend: Director Ian Cheney
A GOOD AMERICAN
Director: Friedrich Moser
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
A profile of Bill Binney, a NSA insider turned critic of government surveillance.
Expected to attend: Director Friedrich Moser, Subjects Bill Binney, Ed Loomis, Tom Drake, and Diane Roark
I AM SUN MU
Director: Adam Sjöberg
US PREMIERE
After defecting from North Korea, a former propaganda artist applies his craft to satirical political pop art.
Expected to attend: Director Adam Sjöberg
A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES: PEACEKEEPERS
Directors: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Geeta Gandbhir
US PREMIERE
Three Bangladeshi policewomen serve with the UN peacekeeping mission in post-earthquake Haiti.
Expected to attend: Director Geeta Gandbhir, Dee Dee Rodriguez (US), UN Police Operations and International Cooperation Project Manager/UN Police Reforms, Guinea Bissau, Vildana Sedo (BiH), UN Police Officer, Afghanistan
MOTLEY’S LAW
Director: Nicole N Horanyi
NYC PREMIERE
Kimberley Motley, the only Western lawyer licensed to work in Afghanistan’s courts, finds herself at a crossroads.
Expected to attend: Director Nicole N Horanyi, Subject Kimberley Motley
NEWMAN
Director: Jon Fox
NYC PREMIERE
A maverick inventor battles against the scientific establishment over a miraculous energy-producing machine.
Expected to attend: Director Jon Fox
PS JERUSALEM
Director: Danae Elon
US PREMIERE
Chronicling three years in Jerusalem with her family, Danae Elon uncovers the city’s tensions.
Expected to attend: Director Danae Elon and family
THE SUNSHINE MAKERS
Director: Cosmo Feilding Mellen
WORLD PREMIERE
A real-life BREAKING BAD for the psychedelic set about the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s drug counterculture.
Expected to attend: Director Cosmo Feilding Mellen, Subjects Nick Sand and Tim Scully
Why You Should Attend:
Past winners of the Viewfinders competition have included CAIRO DRIVE, A WORLD NOT OURS, INFORMANT, SCENES OF A CRIME, and WINDFALL. Among this year’s ten contenders are three world premieres, representing the latest films from the directors or producers behind such acclaimed past docs as ÉVOCATEUR, KING CORN, and SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN.
This year’s selections include fascinating insights into the lives and work of social scientists, waterway workers, astrobiologists, whistleblowers, dissident artists, UN peacekeepers, international attorneys, visionary inventors, a conflicted family, and renegade chemists.
More Info:
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