This year, we’ve expanded our shorts programming at DOC NYC, including more Shorts Programs, shorts screening before feature presentations, and our new DOC NYC U initiative.
Shorts Programs
CONCRETE KINGDOM
City life, from union protests to subway musicians, in five films.
EXPRESSIONS
Artists and their art, including Cindy Sherman, carnival attractions, and Japanese textiles, explored in five short films.
A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
Six films for the whole family, including stories of siblings, claymation, and intrepid teenage journalists.
FROM THERE TO HERE
Experiences in the melting pot, following immigrants from China, Honduras, Romania, Sudan, Ecuador, and India.
LARGER THAN LIFE
Portraits of everyday characters, including a street golfer, a dunk tank clown, and a criminal attorney, in six tales.
PASSPORT
Take a trip around the world, from Havana to São Paulo, Warsaw to Nigeria.
POINTS OF VIEW
Tales of yesterday, today and tomorrow, including the story of America’s first hackers, a man’s return from four decades in prison, and gay Korean War veterans.
PUSHING THE BOUNDS
True innovation in six genre-pushing works.
Shorts Before Features
Nine short films will screen as part of feature or special programs:
The 100 Years Show
Though she has painted all her life, Cuban-born NYC artist Carmen Herrera is “discovered” in her 90s.
Screening before TOCANDO LA LUZ.
The Bad Boy of Bowling
Pete Weber: Bowling’s first rock star, or it’s greatest embarrassment?
Screening before BOUNCE.
Dreaming Against the World
Risking execution to create work while imprisoned during China’s Cultural Revolution, Mu Xin demonstrates that great art is born of great struggle.
Screening before CLAUDE LANZMANN: SPECTRES OF THE SHOAH.
Ed & Pauline
Before she was The New Yorker’s film critic, Pauline Kael partnered with cinephile Ed Landberg to transform a storefront into a beloved art house cinema.
Screening before REEL IN THE CLOSET.
Emory Douglas: The Art of the Black Panthers
A portrait of art used as a revolutionary weapon
Screening before THE INVADERS.
Mariela Castro’s March: Cuba’s LGBT Revolution
Cuban Congresswoman Mariela Castro – daughter of Raúl and niece of Fidel Castro – confronts decades of cultural and institutional homophobia to serve as a tireless champion of the rights of Cuba’s LGBT community.
Screening before KEYNOTE.
Open Your Eyes
An elderly couple in the remote mountains of Nepal take a three-day journey to reclaim their long-lost sight.
Screening before WILHEMINA’S WAR.
A Passion of Gold and Fire
The head of an apiary school, nearing the end of his career, worries there’s no one to carry on his work with bees.
Screening before AN ART THAT NATURE MAKES.
Why We Stay
A South Bronx community takes a stand against gentrification.
Screening before TESTED.
DOC NYC U
Four programs showcasing films by NYC university documentary programs:
Columbia Journalism School
Includes Code of Silence, Through the Fire, and Born Into This.
New York Film Academy
Includes Alive and Kicking, The Happiest Family, Legacy, Freya, and All in My Head: The Patrick Stein Story.
New York University NewsDoc
Includes In All Fairness, School of Yoga, and Fairy Tales.
School of Visual Arts MFA Social Documentary Film
Includes No More Sad, Pele, My Paradise, The Wonder Workshop, Last Days of Domino, Sister Jolin, Ray Valenz: Fire Breather, 18 Seconds, Tide to Stone, H Nagano, and Oliver.
Why You Should Attend:
Festivals are one of the few public platforms available to short filmmakers to reach audiences. Viewers curious to discover the nonfiction filmmakers of the future should especially consider checking out DOC NYC U.
More Info:
To purchase tickets, click on the individual titles above, and follow links for ticketing, where available. Or consider purchasing one of DOC NYC’s Pass options for access to a variety of programming.
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