Coming to NYC’s Stranger Than Fiction series tomorrow, Tuesday, March 8: NEWMAN
Jon Fox’s profile of a man who could have changed the world debuted at the Hamptons last Fall. Other fests have included DOC NYC, where it received a special jury mention, and Irvine.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
In 1979, Joseph Newman, a self-educated inventor in the backwoods of Mississippi, claimed to develop a motor that defied the laws of physics. Mainstream news stations, and even an appearance on THE TONIGHT SHOW, spread the revolutionary potential of his magnetic perpetual motion machine, which could end our dependence on oil and gas. Instead, as detailed in Jon Fox’s stranger-than-fiction debut, the maverick faced a decades-long, and increasingly paranoid, battle against the US Patent Office and the scientific establishment.
what (not) to doc 