Category Archives: Film Festivals

While DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, continues this week, IDFA, the biggest nonfiction event in the world, kicks off on Wednesday, November 16. The Dutch festival will once again present approximately 170 new and recent documentary features, in addition to shorts, interactive, and retrospective work, before it comes to a close on Sunday, November 27. Today’s first of two posts takes a closer look at IDFA’s competitions, while tomorrow’s presents highlights from the non-competitive sections. Continue reading →

Panel series DOC NYC PRO comes to a close for 2016 on Thursday, November 17 with Show Me the Money Day: An essential exploration of financing and sustainability in nonfiction filmmaking. Continue reading →

My preview of 2016 DOC NYC film programming concludes with a look at our Shorts offerings, which have once again expanded to include special presentations in addition to thematic programs, shorts screening before features, and student film focused DOC NYC U: Continue reading →

Wednesday, November 16, the penultimate day of DOC NYC‘s popular panel series, DOC NYC PRO, puts the focus on an essential part of the filmmaking process: Smart Producing Day: Continue reading →

The 19th RIDM, Montreal’s documentary festival, kicks off this Thursday, November 10 with Gianfranco Rosi’s acclaimed look at the migrant crisis, FIRE AT SEA; and runs through Sunday, November 20, when the fest comes to a close with Santiago Bertolino’s FREELANCER ON THE FRONT LINES, which follows a journalist through conflict zones over three years. This year’s event offers more then 50 new and recent feature documentaries, as well as scores of shorts, retrospective, and interactive programming. Highlights from the former are noted below. Continue reading →

DOC NYC revisits nonfiction from years past in Docs Redux: Continue reading →

DOC NYC kicks off in just a few days. My programming preview continues with our ever-popular music doc section: Sonic Cinema Continue reading →

DOC NYC PRO, DOC NYC‘s industry programming strand, continues on Tuesday, November 15, with Documentary & Journalism Day: Continue reading →

This week’s DOC NYC preview comes to a close with our activist doc strand: Fight the Power Continue reading →