DOC NYC has released the full festival line up for its tenth edition, running from November 6-15, 2019 at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village, Chelsea’s SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea.
This year’s festival will include:
– 300+ films and events
– 28 world premieres
– 27 U.S. or North American premieres
– 500+ filmmakers and special guests in person
This year’s festival is dedicated to the memory of D.A. Pennebaker, who was a constant presence at DOC NYC since its first year until his death this past summer. In 2014, at the festival’s inaugural Visionaries Tribute, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award along with his partner Chris Hegedus. This year’s festival poster features a photograph of Pennebaker taken by Don MacSorley in 1967 during the filming of the classic documentary Monterey Pop.
There are 18 different NYWIFT Members showing 21 different films at this year’s festival! Congratulations to them all!
The nominations below are sorted alphabetically. Click pictures for more information.
1275 Days
Executive Producer: NYWIFT Member Rachel Swearingen
Showing: Friday, November 8, 2019 – 5:05pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
After the Murder of Albert Lima
Producer: NYWIFT Member Amy Rapp
Showing: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 – 9:30pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
Composer: NYWIFT Member Wendy Blackstone
Showing: Sunday, November 10, 2019 – 12:15pm
@ IFC Center
The Apollo
Producer: NYWIFT Member Lisa Cortes
Showing:
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 – 6:30pm
Thursday, November 14, 2019 – 1:40pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
Apollo 11
Executive Producer: NYWIFT Member Amy Entelis
Showing:
Sunday, November 10, 2019 – 10:20am
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 – 11:05am
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
Bloodroot
Executive Producer: NYWIFT Member Abigail E. Disney
Showing: Monday, November 11, 2019 – 6:50pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
Born Into the Gig
Director: NYWIFT Member Kate Davis
Showing: Friday, November 8, 2019 – 7:00pm
@ SVA Theatre
Brooklyn Inshallah
Executive Producer: NYWIFT Member Marcia Rock
Showing: Saturday, November 9, 2019 – 4:30pm
@ SVA Theatre
Buster Williams Bass to Infinity
Cinematographer: NYWIFT Member Jennifer Cox
Showing:
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 – 7:25pm
Thursday, November 14, 2019 – 12:45pm
@ IFC Center
Catherine Opie b. 1961 (under Shorts: Art Scenes)
Director: NYWIFT Member Sini Anderson
Showing: Sunday November 10, 2019 – 10:15am
@ IFC Center
Desert One
Composer: NYWIFT Member Wendy Blackstone
Showing:
Friday November 8, 2019 – 8:35pm
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 – 2:25pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
Heartbeat, Iowa (under Shorts: I Fought the Law)
Director: NYWIFT Member Emily Cameron
Showing: Monday, November 11, 2019 – 9:15pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
Imitating Life – The Audacity of Suzanne Heintz
Executive Producer: NYWIFT Member & former WIFV DC Board Member Katherine De Francis
Showing:
Sunday November 10, 2019 – 3:05pm
Monday, November 11, 2019 – 12:40pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
On Broadway
Editor: NYWIFT Member Steven Wechsler
Showing:
Monday, November 11, 2019 – 7:00pm
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 – 12:40pm
@ IFC Center
Monday, November 11, 2019 – 9:30 PM
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
One Child Nation
Producer: NYWIFT Member Carolyn Hepburn
Showing:
Friday, November, 8 2019 – 11:00am
Thursday, November 14, 2019 – 6:55pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack
Director: NYWIFT Member Deborah Shaffer
Showing:
Saturday, November 9, 2019 – 5:00pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
Thursday, November 14, 2019 – 10:45am
@ IFC Center
Ringside
Executive Producer: NYWIFT Member Carolyn Hepburn
Showing: Sunday, November 10, 2019 – 9:05pm
@ IFC Center
Scandalous
Executive Producer: NYWIFT Member Amy Entelis
Showing: Sunday, November 10, 2019 – 5:15pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
Searching for Mr. Rugoff
Executive Producer: NYWIFT Member Susan Lacy
Showing:
Friday, November 8, 2019 – 7:00pm
@ IFC Center
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 – 12:30pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
Song of Parkland (under Short List Shorts: Song of Parkland & Tungrus & Mack Wrestles)
Director: NYWIFT Member Amy Schatz
Showing: Monday, November 11, 2019 – 2:45pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
St. Louis Superman
Executive Producer: NYWIFT Member Sheila Nevins
Showing: Friday, November 8, 2019 – 12:45pm
@ Cinépolis Chelsea
DOC NYC is curated in 21 sections this year, including new strands:
- Masters, offering a spotlight on today’s nonfiction auteurs, which features the newest film from two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple, Desert One, about the Iran hostage crisis; Alan Berliner’s Letter to the Editor, a profound visual essay on photojournalism; and a special presentation of Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s Town Bloody Hall (1979), on the infamous 1971 debate between a panel of feminists and Norman Mailer, screened in memory of D.A. Pennebaker.
- Investigations, thought-provoking investigative nonfiction, which includes the world premiere of The Queen’s Man, following the efforts of the former bodyguard of the wife of the Shah of Iran to recover her stolen art collection; the international premiere of Coastal Road Killer, a new true-crime series from the creators of the hit Netflix series Shadow of Truth; and the US premiere of The Pickup Game, an exposé on the billion-dollar industry that teaches men how to manipulate women into bed;
- Green Screens, environmentally focused films, which include the NYC premieres of The Great Green Wall, about efforts to plant trees across Africa; and The Story of Plastic, an investigation into the unceasing production of plastic; and
- Food for Thought, culinary stories, including the world premiere of Laura Naylor’s Vas-y Coupe!, an observational portrait of the harvest of a family-owned vineyard in France’s Champagne region.
Returning sections include high-profile Special Events; competitions Viewfinders and Metropolis; national and global takes in American Perspectives and International Perspectives; and thematic sections Portraits (profiling singular individuals), Modern Family (on unconventional families), New World Order (on today’s most urgent issues),In the System (inside looks at institutions), Fight the Power (on activism), Art & Design (on art, photography and design), Behind the Scenes (on filmmaking), and Sonic Cinema (on music). Short-form content (114 films in total) is represented by the festival’s Shorts Competition and DOC NYC U (showcasing student work), selected by Programmer Opal H. Bennett.
These sections join the previously announced Short List: Features titles, highlighting 15 of the year’s award contender documentary features; Short List: Shorts, a group of 12 of the year’s leading nonfiction shorts; and Winner’s Circle, a new section highlighting seven features that have won awards at major festivals, including Oscar-qualifying international events.
Congratulations again to all the NYWIFT Members whose films will be showing this year!
See the full line up, sections, and buy tickets.
