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
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2016 DOC NYC in Focus: DOC NYC PRO – Show Me the Money Day
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In Theatres: THE ANTHROPOLOGIST
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, November 11: THE ANTHROPOLOGIST
Seth Kramer, Daniel A Miller, and Jeremy Newberger’s look at climate change through cultural anthropology had its world premiere at DOC NYC last year. Screenings followed at Cleveland, Dallas, RiverRun, Minneapolis, IFF Boston, Cucalorus, and San Francisco Green, among other fests.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
At the core of Kramer, Miller, and Newberger’s film are the parallel stories of two women: Margaret Mead, who popularized cultural anthropology in America; and Susie Crate, an environmental anthropologist currently studying the impact of climate change. Uniquely revealed from their daughters’ perspectives, Mead and Crate demonstrate a fascination with how societies are forced to negotiate the disruption of their traditional ways of life, whether through encounters with the outside world or the unprecedented change wrought by melting permafrost, receding glaciers, and rising tides.
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2016 DOC NYC in Focus: Shorts
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
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2016 DOC NYC in Focus: DOC NYC PRO – Smart Producing Day
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
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2016 DOC NYC in Focus: Short List
The final section of feature films in my DOC NYC preview offers up our picks of some of the best nonfiction released this year, fifteen docs in the running for Awards Season accolades: Short List Continue reading
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RIDM 2016 Overview
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
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2016 DOC NYC in Focus: Docs Redux
DOC NYC revisits nonfiction from years past in Docs Redux: Continue reading
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2016 DOC NYC in Focus: Sonic Cinema
DOC NYC kicks off in just a few days. My programming preview continues with our ever-popular music doc section: Sonic Cinema Continue reading
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2016 DOC NYC in Focus: DOC NYC PRO – Documentary & Journalism Day
DOC NYC PRO, DOC NYC‘s industry programming strand, continues on Tuesday, November 15, with Documentary & Journalism Day: Continue reading
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On TV: ZERO DAYS
Coming to Showtime tomorrow, Saturday, November 5: ZERO DAYS
Alex Gibney’s look at cyberwarfare made its bow at Berlin this year. Screenings have followed at Nantucket, AFI Docs, Sydney, Edinburgh, Biografilm, Jerusalem, and New Zealand, among other festivals.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
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