NINTH ANNUAL EDITION
NOVEMBER 8 -15, 2018
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST “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.”
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST DOC NYC has welcomed over 50 sponsors through the years, most of which have returned for 5+ years.
ACSIL Discovery Impact Partners Pond5 Vulcan
Audible Docurama IndieWire Posteritati Wheelhouse Creative
Brooklyn Roasting Co. Essentia Water JustFilms/Ford Foundation RADiUS The World Channel
Chicago Media Project Frankfurt Kurnit Kickstarter The Screening Room The Yard Klein & Selz Chicken & Egg Pictures MTV Stoli ZICO Goose Island Cowan DeBaets NBCUniversal Archives SundanceNow Abrahams & Sheppard Half Pops New York Magazine SVA CNN Films Heineken Owl’s Brew Technicolor-Postworks NY Citibank International Documentary Association Participant Media Tribeca Grand Hotel City of New York Mayor’s Office for Illy Peru Ministry of VH1 & Logo Documentary Media & Entertainment Tourism & Culture Films Image Nation Abu Dhabi
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST Voted by Movie Maker Magazine as one of the top 5 coolest documentary film festivals in the world! DOC NYC 2017 FEATURED: 13k 300+ likes on Facebook 60k special guests visits DOCNYC.net 125k 94 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
v SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT 21k 17k IFC Center 24k @thompowers @1basil1 57k followers @DOCNYCfest 35k followers Artistic Director Director of Programming Newsletter subscribers: 23k weekly recipients DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST DOC NYC’s SHORT LIST has a strong track record of predicting Oscar® winners and nominees! Icarus 2018 Oscar® Winner
20 Feet From Stardom Citizenfour Amy O.J.: Made in America 2014 Oscar Winner 2015 Oscar Winner 2016 Oscar Winner 2017 Oscar Winner
OSCAR NOMINEES FROM DOC NYC SHORT LIST 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 The Act of Killing Finding Vivian Maier Cartel Land 13th Abacus: Small Dirty Wars Last Days in Vietnam The Look of Silence Fire at Sea Enough To Jail The Square The Salt of the Earth What Happened, I Am Not Your Negro Faces Places Miss Simone? Strong Island Life, Animated Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST Get your brand in front of NY & International tastemakers
Harry Belafonte & Rosario Dawson Marisa Tomei Agnes Varda
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 DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST 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.
Edison Ballroom
Sheila Nevins
Errol Morris
Peter Sarsgaard Heidi Ewing, Barbara Kopple and Rachel Grady Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes Cara Mertes “One of the most significant gatherings of documentary filmmakers in history” DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST features 40+ panels and masterclasses.
Roger Ross Williams, Marilyn Ness, Tabitha Jackson (Sundance Institute) and Thom Powers Carolyn Hepburn and Julie Goldman
Jon Bardin (Discovery), Jackie Glover Loira Limbal (Firelight Media) (HBO Documentary Films) Matthew Heineman, Deia Schlosberg Sam Pollard
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST Lounge hosts sponsored networking breakfasts, happy hours and receptions.
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST Only In NY
Only In NY features four days of networking sessions with filmmakers and industry professionals from 40+ companies including; Netflix, Showtime Documentary Films, HBO Documentary Films, Amazon Studios, Discovery, Submarine, Cinetic, RadicalMedia and many others.
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST 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 2017
EVENTS • US theatrical premieres of major independent hits • Festivals: Split Screens, 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, Unifrance, SundanceNow, New York International Children’s Film Festival, Field of Vision, Sundance Film Festival and others • In-person appearances by filmmakers and stars like David Lynch, James Franco, Catherine Deneuve, Jane Fonda, Martin Scorcese, Kristen Stewart, Ethan Hawke, Michael Moore, Jeremy Irons, John Waters, Norman Lear, Michael Shannon, Christian Slater, Bernadette Peters, David Byrne and more
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Tom Quinn (Neon), Arianna Bocco (IFC Films/ Sundance Selects), Dan Cogan (Impact Partners)
Molly Thompson (A&E IndieFilms), Adam Del Deo, Lisa Nishimura, Ted Sarandos (Netflix) Filmmaker Chris Hegedus
Thom Powers, Raphaela Neihausen and Vinne Malhotra (Showtime Documentary Films)
Yance Ford on the Alex Gibney and Caty Borum Chattoo (American University) Writing for Non-Fiction panel Shelia Nevins (HBO Documentary Films)
Ben Murray (Technicolor PostWorks NY) John Hoffman (Discovery) The Screening Room Demo
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