DOC NYC Holds Influential Place in Awards Calendar

In just 13 yearsDOC NYC has become America’s most influential documentary festival. The nine-day affair, which runs Nov. 9-17, will feature more than 124 short docus and 112 feature-length nonficti…

The nine-day affair, which runs Nov. 9-17, will feature more than 124 short docus and 112 feature-length nonfiction films that will screen at New York City’s IFC Center, SVA Theater and Cinépolis Chelsea.

Created in 2012 by DOC NYC’s former artistic director Thom Powers, the feature docu shortlist has, arguably, become a voting guide to nonfiction branch Academy members, making the list a top priority to distributors and filmmakers alike who are seeking Oscar glory. “The luncheon is Mount Everest of documentary events,” says Oscar winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams. “It’s just insane.”,” a doc about George Anthony Morton who begins to heal the traumas of his childhood via art. Williams produced the film, which is directed by first-time feature docu helmer Rosa Ruth Boesten.film could be a sleeper hit.

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