DOC NYC, America's largest documentary film festival, returns Wednesday for its 14th edition in New York City, with films available for viewing both in-person and online.The festival showcases an international lineup of more than 200 feature-length and short films, including many world, North American and NYC premieres.Held in-person Nov.
13-21 at venues in Manhattan, the festival also streams many features online through Dec.1.
(For tickets and streaming passes click here.)The festival also includes filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, master classes and workshops with notable documentarians and industry insiders.The full lineup may be viewed here.
Special eventsThe festival's opening night feature is the U.S.premiere of "Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story," Sinéad O'Shea's revealing portrait of the defiant Irish novelist.
O'Brien's sexually-infused stories of women pushing against societal expectations, beginning with "The Country Girls," raised the ire of Catholic sensibilities and censors, but won her fans for her clear-eyed depictions of youth and innocence being shattered.Cleverly piecing together archival footage and TV appearances, recent interviews with O'Brien (who died in July at age 93), and clips from films adapted from her works, with actress Jessie Buckley voicing the novelist's books and diaries, O'Shea gives voice to a woman, inspired by the writings of James Joyce, who sought her rightful place at the table of Irish literati.
(Screens Nov.13, online Nov.
14-Dec.1.)The centerpiece selection is the world premiere of "All God's Children," Ondi Timoner's story of a rabbi and a pastor working to bring their Brooklyn communities together amid rising racial and religious tensions.
(Screens Nov.14, 16, online Nov.
15-Dec.1.)The closing night feature is the world premiere of Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn's "Drop Dead City: New York on the Brink in 1975," about how Gotham cratered in the 1970s, thanks to a budget crisis, rising p...