EIGHTH ANNUAL EDITION
November 9-16, 2017 “DOC NYC has quickly become one of the city’s grandest film events.”
Spans downtown Hailed as Manhattan from “ambitious” IFC Center to 250+ SVA Theatre and films & events “selective but Cinepolis Chelsea eclectic”
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Thom Powers programs for the Toronto Raphaela Neihausen & Powers run the weekly International Film Festival and hosts the series Stranger Than Fiction at IFC Center and podcast Pure Nonfiction. host WNYC’s “Documentary of the Week.” DOC NYC has welcomed over 50 sponsors through the years, most of which have returned for 3+ years.
ACSIL Discovery Image Nation Abu Dhabi Participant Media Technicolor-Postworks NY
Brooklyn Roasting Co. Docurama Impact Partners Peru Ministry of Tribeca Grand Hotel Tourism & Culture Chicago Media Project Essentia Water IndieWire VH1 & Logo Documentary Posteritati Films Chicken & Egg Pictures Goose Island JustFilms/Ford Foundation RADiUS Vulcan Cowan DeBaets Half Pops Abrahams & Sheppard Kickstarter The Screening Room Wheelhouse Creative Heineken CNN Films MTV Stoli The World Channel International City of New York Documentary Association NBCUniversal Archives SundanceNow The Yard Mayor’s Office for Doc Club Media & Entertainment Illy New York Magazine ZICO SVA Owl’s Brew
DOCNYC.NET DOCNYCFEST Voted by Movie Maker Magazine as one of the top 5 coolest documentary film festivals in the world! DOC NYC 2016 FEATURED: 12k 200+ likes on Facebook 60k special guests visits DOCNYC.net 125k 92 reached by e-mail Largest premieres Documentary Press coverage from over 120 national Festival in & international America 250+ media outlets 30,000 films & events ticket buyers
SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT 20k 16.5k IFC Center 22k @thompowers @1basil1 50k followers @DOCNYCfest 29k followers Artistic Director Director of Programming Newsletter subscribers: 23k weekly recipients DOC NYC’s SHORT LIST has a strong track record of predicting Oscar® winners and nominees! O.J.: Made In America 2017 Oscar® Winner
Searching for Sugar Man 20 Feet From Stardom Citizenfour Amy 2013 Oscar Winner 2014 Oscar Winner 2015 Oscar Winner 2016 Oscar Winner
OSCAR NOMINEES FROM DOC NYC SHORT LIST 2014 2015 2016 2017 The Act of Killing Finding Vivian Maier Cartel Land 13th Dirty Wars Last Days in Vietnam The Look of Silence Fire at Sea I Am Not Your Negro The Square The Salt of the Earth What Happened, Miss Simone? Life, Animated Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom Get your brand in front of NY & International tastemakers
Harry Belafonte & Rosario Dawson Marisa Tomei Wallace Shawn
Werner Herzog
Jared Leto Anjelica Huston
Cornel West & Nat Hentoff Omar Epps Naomi Watts Hillary Clinton and Katie Couric
BRANDING OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDE LOUNGE - PARTY - HAPPY HOUR - BREAKFAST SPECIAL EVENT - PRODUCT DEMO The annual Visionaries Tribute Luncheon honors the legends of documentary filmmaking. Each year’s Tribute has been sold out, gathering industry leaders, filmmakers, distributors, producers, and Academy members.
Raphaela Neihausen, Sheila Nevins, Thom Powers DA Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
Dawn Porter
Jonathan Demme, Carl Deal, Michael Moore Molly Thompson Raoul Peck, Kirsten Johnson Stanley Nelson “One of the most significant gatherings of documentary filmmakers in history” features 30+ panels and masterclasses.
Ezra Edelman, Taj Paxton, Tilane Jones, Raoul Peck, Bryan Stevenson Audience questions
Loira Limbal Pitch Perfect Panel Matt Heineman, Deia Schlosberg Joe Brewster
DOCNYC.NET DOCNYCFEST Lounge hosts sponsored networking breakfasts, happy hours and receptions.
DOCNYC.NET DOCNYCFEST Only In NY
Lisa Heller (HBO Documentary Films) & Filmmakers Filmmakers
Julie Anderson (WNET) Filmmakers & Industry Professionals
Only In NY features four days of networking sessions with Filmmakers and industry professionals from companies including; HBO Documentary Films, Amazon Studios, Discovery, Submarine, Cinetic, RadicalMedia and many others. DOC NYC has received critical acclaim from over 120 media outlets
“DOC NYC, America’s “The city’s largest documentary premiere festival “A kingmaker for “This cinematic bonanza film festival, has firmly documentaries.” covers everything new taken root, and grown in of nonfiction and noteworthy in the size and importance…” film.” world of documentary filmmaking.”
“DOC NYC has “The most comprehensive “An essential event cemented itself as celebration of the on the cinephile’s one of our favorite nonfiction form in the five calendar.” festivals of the boroughs or anywhere cultural calendar.” else for that matter.”
DOCNYC.NET DOCNYCFEST DOC NYC is produced by IFC Center, a five screen state of the art cinema located in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. Top tier sponsors have access to extended year-round opportunities at IFC.
AUDIENCES • One of the country’s perennial top-grossing theaters on a per-seat basis • Diverse, educated, influential • Weekly e-mail: 22,000 • Quarterly programs distributed throughout NYC: 20,000 • Passersby: 30,000 people/day • Attendance: 450,000 moviegoers/year • IFCcenter.com: 650,000+ unique visitors, 1.1 million site visits in 2013
EVENTS • US theatrical premieres of major independent hits • Festivals: Oscar®-Nominated Shorts, NY International Children’s Film Festival, DOC NYC, Human Rights Watch Film Festival • Midnight movies, classics and shorts • Partnerships with The New York Times, Columbia University, NYU, McSweeney’s, Field of Vision, Sundance Film Festival and others • In-person appearances by filmmakers and stars like David Lynch, James Franco, Catherine Deneuve, Jane Fonda, Jonathan Demme, Kristen Stewart, Ethan Hawke, Michael Moore, Jeremy Irons, John Waters, Norman Lear, Michael Shannon, Christian Slater, Bernadette Peters, David Byrne and more
DOCNYC.NET DOCNYCFEST DOC NYC partners and friends
Molly Thompson (A&E IndieFilms), Adam Del Deo, Lisa Nishimura, Ted Sarandos (Netflix) Filmmaker Chris Hegedus
Dan Cogan (Impact Partners)
Sara Bernstein, Sheila Nevins, Fenton Bailey (HBO Documentary Films)
Thom Powers, Raphaela Neihausen and Amazon Studios at DOC NYC PRO John Hoffman (Discovery) Vinne Malhotra (Showtime Documentary Films)
Filmmakers Liz Garbus, Joe Beirne (Technicolor PostWorks NY) Stanley Nelson (Firelight Media) Sony Camera Demo DOCNYC.NET DOCNYCFEST DOC NYC Opening Night and Filmmaker Parties
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