{"id":17219,"date":"2020-11-06T16:06:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T21:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=17219"},"modified":"2021-10-23T01:12:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T05:12:27","slug":"2020-doc-nyc-11th-edition-november-11-19-online-part-1-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/2020-doc-nyc-11th-edition-november-11-19-online-part-1-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"DOC NYC Announces Lineup for 11th Edition, November 11-19 Online – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advance ticket sales began October 15.
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Tickets are available at docnyc.net. Films will be available to screen throughout the U.S. November 11-19.<\/p>\n

Ticket Prices:<\/strong>
\nIndividual tickets are $12 each ($9 for IFC Center members).
\nFive-Ticket Packs are $45, offering film lovers access to five festival selections. A special early bird discount of $40 is available through October 31.<\/del>
\nTen-Ticket Packs are $80, and provide access to ten festival films. A special early bird discount of $70 is available through October 31.
\nThe All Access Pass offers access to all films on the festival platform for $199. An early bird discount of $149 is available through October 31.<\/del><\/p>\n

The 2020 festival includes 107 feature-length documentaries among over 200 films and dozens of events. Included are 23 World Premieres, 12 international or North American premieres, and 7 US premieres. Fifty-seven features (53 percent of the lineup) are directed or co-directed by women and 36 by BIPOC directors (34 percent of the feature program). From WORD Editor Gregg W. Morris:<\/strong> Because the itinerary is so huge, the list for the 11th edition is being published in several parts.<\/p>\n

While many film festivals\u2019 2020 editions have been forced to shrink the size of their program or cancel altogether due to the ongoing pandemic, DOC NYC has been able to transition to a completely online event for this year. DOC NYC remains one of the world\u2019s largest documentary festivals, presenting, as it has since 2015, more than 100 feature films in its slate, along with numerous shorts programs and student film showcases.<\/p>\n

In addition to film screenings, DOC NYC\u2019s 2020 edition includes the five-day pre-festival \u201cRoad Trip,\u201d October 26-30, a virtual tour on Facebook Live stopping in ten filmmaking hubs across the United States to showcase local documentary makers and organizations, along with festival films from the area. During the festival itself, conversations with festival filmmakers will take place in daily \u201cDOC NYC Live\u201d events, and festival screenings will also include pre-recorded filmmaker Q&As after the films. Schedule and guests for both \u201cRoad Trip\u201d and \u201cDOC NYC Live\u201d to be announced. \u201cRoad Trip\u201d is co-presented by Netflix.<\/p>\n

The festival\u2019s noted filmmaker development program, DOC NYC PRO, also moved online in 2020, offering webinars to emerging and established documentary markers around that globe. DOC NYC PRO is co-presented by Apple Original Films.<\/p>\n

\u201cDocumentary film has never felt so vital as in these tumultuous times,\u201d said Director of Programming Basil Tsiokos. \u201cThis year\u2019s lineup represents a wide array of voices both on screen and from behind the camera, creating works of art that will resonate for years to come.\u201d Tsiokos leads the festival\u2019s selection team of Programmers Ruth Somalo, Karen McMullen, and Jessie Fairbanks, and Associate Programmer Brandon Harrison, in collaboration with Artistic Director Thom Powers.<\/p>\n

World Premieres at the festival include Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo’s A La Calle, Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s The Meaning of Hitler, Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s Wuhan Wuhan, Sian-Pierre Regis\u2019s Duty Free, Noah Hutton’s In Silico, Nancy Buirski’s A Crime on the Bayou, Jeff Daniels’s Television Event, Ilinca Calugareanu’s A Cops and Robbers Story, Frank Matson’s Restaurant Hustle, Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz’s Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters, Cheryl Dunn’s Moments Like This Never Last, and Lauren DeFilippo and Katherine Gorringe\u2019s Red Heaven, among others.<\/p>\n

Among this year\u2019s international, North American, and U.S. premieres are Mor Loushy’s Kings of Capitol Hill, Oliver Murray’s Ronnie’s, Ulrike Ottinger’s Paris Calligrammes, Siji Awoyinka’s Elder’s Corner, Meng Han\u2019s Smog Town, Justin Staple’s American Rapstar, Mayye Zayed’s Lift Like a Girl, Sam Osborn and Nick Capezzera’s Universe, Magnus Skatvold and Greg Mallozzi’s Blue Code of Silence, and Julien Temple’s Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane McGowan.<\/p>\n

DOC NYC\u2019s feature programming is curated in 14 sections, including two competition sections. The Viewfinders Competition, recognizing 11 films demonstrating distinct directorial vision, includes Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s The Viewing Booth, Loira Limbal’s Through the Night, Cecilia Aldarondo’s Landfall, and Bruno Santamar\u00eda’s Things We Dare Not Do.<\/p>\n

The 10 films of the Metropolis Competition are dedicated to stories set in New York City, and include Chris McKim’s Wojnarowicz, Christian D. Bruun’s Calendar Girl, and Raquel Cepeda’s La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla.<\/p>\n

Winner\u2019s Circle highlights 8 films that have won awards at Oscar-qualifying international festivals, and includes David Osit’s Mayor, Elizabeth Lo’s Stray, Radu Ciorniciuc’s Acasa, My Home, and Katrine Philp’s Beautiful Something Left Behind. Other returning sections include:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Masters<\/strong>, offering a spotlight on the newest work from nonfiction auteurs like Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar (9to5: The Story of a Movement), and Errol Morris (My Psychedelic Love Story);<\/p>\n

\u2013 National and global takes<\/strong> in American Perspectives and International Perspectives, with work like Eden Wurmfeld and Margaret Munzer Loeb’s Chasing Childhood, Deirdre Fishel’s Women in Blue, and Maia Lekow and Christopher King’s The Letter;<\/p>\n

\u2013 And thematic sections Investigations<\/strong> (thought-provoking investigative nonfiction, including Maya Zinshtein’s ‘Til Kingdom Come and John Dower’s The Mystery of D.B. Cooper);<\/p>\n

\u2013 Fight the Power<\/strong> (on activism, including Jeff Kaufman’s Nasrin and Ashley O’Shay’s Unapologetic);<\/p>\n

\u2013 Portraits<\/strong> (profiling singular individuals in work like Rebecca Richman Cohen\u2019s Weed & Wine and Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt\u2019s No Ordinary Man);<\/p>\n

\u2013 Jock Doc<\/strong>s (on sports, in films like Jos\u00e9 Permar\u2019s Off the Road and Sami Khan and Michael Gassert\u2019s The Last Out);<\/p>\n

\u2013 Behind the Scenes<\/strong> (on films and television, including R.J. Cutler\u2019s Belushi and Mo Scarpelli\u2019s El Father Plays Himself);<\/p>\n

\u2013 Arts & Culture<\/strong> (on the arts, including Larissa Bills\u2019s Disney+ series On Pointe and Sachi Cunningham and Vayabobo\u2019s Crutch);<\/p>\n

\u2013 And Sonic Cinema<\/strong> (on music, including Alex Winter\u2019s Zappa and Robert Yapkowitz and Richard Peete\u2019s In My Own Time: A Portrait of Karen Dalton). DOC NYC also puts a special Spotlight on Canada this year, celebrating work by Canadian filmmakers, co-presented by the Consulate General of Canada in New York.<\/p>\n

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Short-form content is represented by the festival\u2019s Shorts Competition (43 films in 8 thematic programs) and DOC NYC U (46 films representing student work from 7 NYC schools), selected by Shorts Programmer Opal H. Bennett, working with Associate Programmers DeWitt Davis and Samah Ali. DOC NYC U is co-presented by HBO Documentary Films.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s edition of the festival includes several filmmakers who have previously been recognized on DOC NYC\u2019s 40 Under 40 list of promising nonfiction filmmakers: Cecilia Aldarondo (dir\/prod, Landfall), Jameka Autry (prod, Through the Night), Jamie Boyle (dir\/prod, Take a Vote), Sonia Kennebeck (dir\/prod, Enemies of the State), Anjali Nayar (dir\/prod, Oil and Water), Nico Opper (dir,When I Write It), and Izabella Tzenkova (co-prod, Moments Like This Never Last). The 2020 class of 40 Under 40 is represented in the lineup by Jessica Earnshaw (dir\/prod, Jacinta).<\/p>\n

Also on the list:<\/em> Tiffany Hsiung (dir, Sing Me a Lullaby), Elizabeth Lo (dir\/prod, Stray), Nelson G. Navarrete & Maxx Caicedo (dirs, A La Calle), Tommy Oliver (dir, 40 Years a Prisoner), David Osit dir,Mayor), Kellen Quinn (prod, In Silico and So Late So Soon), Jiyan \u201cJenny\u201d Shi (dir\/prod, Finding Yingying), Lesley Steele (dir, By Way of Canarsie), Christine Turner (dir, Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business), and Malika Zouhali-Worrall (editor, Through the Night). 40 Under 40 is co-presented by HBO Documentary Films and Topic Studios.<\/p>\n

The festival also includes several completed projects that previously participated in DOC NYC\u2019s Only In New Yorkprogram for works-in-progress: The Big Scary \u201cS\u201d Word, Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters, Chasing Childhood, The Dilemma of Desire, Down a Dark Stairwell, Los Hermanos\/The Brothers, Red Heaven, and Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me. Only In New York is co-presented by SHOWTIME\u00ae Documentary Films.<\/p>\n

“We are proud to support the 11th annual DOC NYC Film Festival, which this year will allow viewers nationwide to enjoy more than 200 documentary films online, including a number of international premieres,” said Commissioner of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Anne del Castillo. “Documentary filmmakers are an integral part of NYC’s creative economy and production community, and their ability to capture and communicate the human condition is so important during these challenging times.”<\/p>\n

More news about additions to the program, DOC NYC\u2019s Visionaries Tribute honorees, competition jury members, the features and shorts named to the festival\u2019s Short List sections, and other festival updates will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

End Part 1<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Click here for Part 2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The 2020 festival includes 107 feature-length documentaries among over 200 films and dozens of events. Included are 23 World Premieres, 12 international or North American premieres, and 7 US premieres. Fifty-seven features (53 percent of the lineup) are directed or co-directed by women and 36 by BIPOC directors (34 percent of the feature program). <\/p>\n

From WORD Editor Gregg W. Morris: Because the itinerary is so huge, the list for the 11th edition is being published in several parts.<\/b><\/p>\n

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