Category Archives: Overviews

Festival:
The 43rd Margaret Mead Film Festival

Dates:
October 17-20

About:
25 documentary features make up the lineup of this long-running program of NYC’s American Museum of Natural History. Continue reading →

Festival:
The 30th New Orleans Film Festival

Dates:
October 16-23

About:
Nearly half of this popular Southern event’s 60+ lineup is devoted to nonfiction. Continue reading →

As DOC NYC’s Director of Programming, I’m excited to share the full lineup for this year’s 10th anniversary edition, expanded to ten days this year and running November 6-15.

DOC NYC 2019 includes 136 features, representing 28 world premieres, 7 international premieres, 7 North American premieres, 13 US premieres, and 59 NYC premieres, in addition to short films and our parallel DOC NYC PRO series of industry programming.

Our website has full information here, and ticketing is live now.

Festival:
The 27th Hamptons International Film Festival

Dates:
October 10-14

About:
More than 30 new and recent documentary features screen at this well-regarded event, representing half of the lineup. Continue reading →

Festival:
The 20th Woodstock Film Festival

Dates:
October 2-6

About:
This Hudson Valley NY event caps off its second decade with just over 50 features, half of them nonfiction. Continue reading →

Festival:
The 63rd BFI London Film Festival

Dates:
October 2-13

About:
Nonfiction makes up about a fifth of this notable UK event’s 200+ lineup. Continue reading →

Festival:
The 57th New York Film Festival

Dates:
September 27-October 13

About:
Film at Lincoln Center’s beloved Fall fest showcases 19 works of nonfiction in its slate of 50 features. Continue reading →

Festival:
The 19th Urbanworld Film Festival

Dates:
September 18-22

About:
Five documentary or hybrid features screen at this NYC spotlighting films by African American and multicultural filmmakers.

Screening as a Spotlight is Roger Ross Williams’ THE APOLLO, on the history and legacy of the legendary Harlem theatre; while other nonfiction offerings include: Lisa Cortés and Farah X’s THE REMIX: HIP HOP X FASHION, on the intersection of fashion and hip hop in the late 1980s and 90s; Daniel Effiong’s SKIN, which explores perceptions of skin color and beauty in Nigeria; Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi’s BAKOSO: AFROBEATS OF CUBA, a look at the roots of the musical genre; and Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez’s hybrid BY THE NAME OF TANIA, the story of a Peruvian villager forced into prostitution.

Festival:
The 15th Camden International Film Festival

Dates:
September 12-15

About:
This well-liked Maine nonfiction event presents more than 30 features, in addition to shorts, new media, and the Points North Forum, which features panels, workshops, masterclasses, industry meetings, and pitch sessions.

While the bulk of the feature lineup consists of a well-curated selection of standout titles that have debuted elsewhere on the circuit over the past year, this year’s edition also presents several world premieres. Among these are: Martha Shane’s NARROWSBURG, an entertaining but cautionary tale about a late 1990s attempt to turn a small upstate New York town into the “Sundance of the East;” Ian Cheney’s THIRTEEN WAYS, which explores the different ways a range of individuals respond to the same patch of land; Michel Negroponte’s MY AUTONOMOUS NEIGHBOR, a collage-like portrait of an eccentric artist and philosopher; Vytautas Puidokas’ EL PADRE MÉDICO, a dark tale of a Lithuanian priest turned Amazon miracle worker; Daniel Vernon’s THE CHANGIN’ TIMES OF IKE WHITE, which explores what happened to a California prisoner who recorded an influential music album in 1974; and Andrea Kalin’s SCATTERING CJ, detailing how a mother’s attempts to deal with the suicide of her son became a viral phenomenon.

Festival:
The 44th Toronto International Film Festival

Dates:
September 5-15

About:
Once again, approximately 40 new works of nonfiction appear out of the nearly 250 features on offer at this powerhouse North American event. Continue reading →