20 FEET FROM STARDOM director Morgan Neville will be part of free DOC NYC panel discussion about the art of documentary filmmaking
DOC NYC
IFC Center
323 Sixth Ave. at West Third St.
Wednesday, November 13, free, 5:00
Festival runs November 14-21
212-924-7771
www.docnyc.net
www.ifccenter.com
The annual DOC NYC festival, which celebrates documentary storytelling with a week of screenings at the IFC Center and the SVA Theatre, kicks off on November 13 at 5:00 with the free panel discussion “Meet the DOC NYC Short List.” The Short List category consists of ten recently released nonfiction films that festival organizers Raphaela Neihausen, Thom Powers, John Vanco, and Harris Dew believe are the ones to watch come awards season. Moderated by Powers, the talk will feature eight of the directors whose work has been selected for the Short List: Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom), Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing), Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish), Lucy Walker (The Crash Reel), Richard Rowley (Dirty Wars), Alan Berliner (First Cousin Once Removed), Dawn Porter (Gideon’s Army), and Roger Ross Williams (God Loves Uganda). Free tickets will be available at the box office thirty minutes before the event, first come, first served, after Insider Pass holders have entered. The festival runs November 14-21, with Errol Morris’s The Unknown Known, about Donald Rumsfeld, the opening night selection; John Maloof and Charlie Siskel’s Finding Vivian Maier the centerpiece film; and Michel Gondry’s Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky the closing night pick. The stated mission of DOC NYC is to “curate, cross-fertilize, cross generations, cultivate new audiences, expand distribution, create social space, and make the most of NYC,” which it has been doing now for nine years.