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AMERICA’S LARGEST DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL SEVENTH ANNUAL EDITION November 10 – 17, 2016

IFC Center Hillary Clinton and Katie Couric “DOC NYC HAS QUICKLY BECOME ONE OF THE CITY’S GRANDEST FILM EVENTS.”

Susan Sarandon

Sharon Jones Big Bird Our HISTORY Past SPONSORS

spans downtown hailed as DOC NYC from “ambitious” has quadrupled IFC Center in size since to Chelsea’s SVA “selective but Theatre and Bow Tie eclectic” 2010 Cinemas

ACSIL IDA RADiUS Chicago Media Project Illy The Screening Room Chicken & Egg Pictures Image Nation Stoli Abu Dhabi Artistic Director Thom Powers programs Cowan DeBaets SundanceNow for Toronto International Film Festival Abrahams & Sheppard Impact Partners Doc Club and hosts the podcast Pure Nonfiction CNN Films Indiewire SVA - MFA SOC DOC City of Investigation Discovery Technicolor-Postworks Executive Director Raphaela Neihausen Mayor’s Office for Kickstarter Tribeca Grand Hotel & Powers run the weekly series Stranger Media & Entertainment Than Fiction at IFC Center and host Docurama NBCUniversal Archives Wheelhouse Creative WNYC’s “Documentary of the Week” Goose Island New York magazine WNET Thom Powers & Michael Moore Half Pops Owl’s Brew The World Channel Heineken Peru Ministry of Tourism & The Yard Culture History Films ZICO Posteritati

2015 HIGHLIGHTS

★★★Closing Night film presented by Hillary Clinton ★★★ ★★★World Premiere of Netflix’ series Making a Murderer ★★★ ★★★Record attendance ★★★ Festival patrons Raphaela Neihausen & Barbara Kopple

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Voted by MovieMaker magazine DOC NYC’s SHORT LIST has a strong track record of predicting as one of the DOCNYC.net Oscar ® winners and nominees! TOPTOP COOLESTCOOLEST DOCUMENTARYDOCUMENTARY 60k 55 FILMFILM FESTIVALSFESTIVALS ININ THETHE WORLD!WORLD! WEBSITE VISITS Amy

Press Coverage E-MAIL BLASTS REACH From Over 120 200+ 125k125k NATIONAL & FILMS & EVENTS INTERNATIONAL ® ® MEDIA OUTLETS 2016 Oscar Winner 2015 Oscar Winner DOC NYC 18k0k 20 Feet From Stardom Searching for LIKES ON FACEBOOK Sugarman

TWITTER FOLLOWERS 30,000 LARGEST DOCUMENTARY TICKET BUYERS FESTIVAL IN AMERICA @DOCNYCfest 216k0k 2014 Oscar ® Winner 2013 Oscar ® Winner

@thompowers @thompowers Undefeated Oscar Nominees from DOC NYC Short List 16k8k 2016: Cartel Land, , FESTIVAL DIRECTOR What Happened, Miss Simone?, Winter on 81 Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom 200+ PREMIERES 2015: Finding Vivian Maier, Last Days in , SPECIAL GUESTS @1basil1 The Salt of the Earth 13k5k 2014: , Dirty Wars, The Square DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING ★ ® 2013: 5 Broken Cameras, 2012 Oscar Winner

4 AME RICA’S LA RGE ST DOCUMENTARY F E STIVAL NOVEMBE R 10 - 17, 2016 5 Get your brand in front of NY tastemakers BRANDING OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDE: • Lounge • Parties Charlotte Rampling Sheila Nevins & Michael Stipe • Happy Hours • Special Events • Breakfasts • Product Demos

David Byrne Naomi Watts

Wallace Shawn

Jared Leto Harry Belafonte & Rosario Dawson

Anjelica Huston Cornel West & Nat Hentoff

Omar Epps Tate Donovan Jim Carrey

Seymour Bernstein & Ethan Hawke Danny Devito Bebe Neuwirth Lemon Anderson & Russell Simmons

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Judith Helfand (Chicken & Egg Pictures), Sandi DuBowski (Good Pitch) and Riva Goldberg (Cinereach) listen to filmmakers pitch their projects.

Sundance Institute’s Tabitha Jackson spoke about the “State of Documentaries.” DOC NYC Short List filmmakers panel BACK ROW: Morgan Neville (Best of Enemies), Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land), Davis Guggenheim (He Named Me Malala), Evgeny Afineevsky (Winter on Fire), Kirby Dick (The Hunting Ground), Michael Moore (Where to Invade Next), (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck), Stanley Nelson (Black Panthers). FRONT ROW: Thom Powers (DOC NYC), (The Look of Silence), Crystal Moselle (Wolfpack), Asif Kapadia (Amy), (Going Clear), Kim Longinotto (Dreamcatcher), (What Happened, Miss Simone?)

Filmmakers Karim Amer (The Square), Andrew Rossi (Ivory Tower), Malika Zouhali-Worrall (), Schomburg Center curator Shola Lynch in conversation with Thom Powers. Yael Melamede ((Dis)honesty) talk distribution with Doug Block (D-Word).

8 AME RICA’S LA RGE ST DOCUMENTARY F E STIVAL NOVEMBE R 10 - 17, 2016 9 The Annual Visionaries Tribute Luncheon Honors the Legends of Documentary Filmmaking

Each year’s Tribute has been sold out, gathering industry leaders, filmmakers,

distributors, Presenter Michael Moore producers, and Academy members. Head of HBO Documentary Films Sheila Nevins with honoree .

“One of the most significant gatherings of documentary filmmakers in history”

Honorees DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus Honoree Barbara Kopple

Filmmaker Alex Gibney presents award to honoree Frederick Wiseman. Presenter Rory Kennedy 2014 honoree Al Maysles

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“DOC NYC has become an “A kingmaker essential summit for all kinds of for documentaries.” documentary filmmaking.”

“This cinematic bonanza covers everything new and noteworthy in the world of “An essential event on the documentary filmmaking.” cinephile’s calendar.” 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 “DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary film festival, • Weekly e-mail: 20,000 has firmly taken root, and grown in size and importance…” • Quarterly programs distributed throughout NYC: 20,000 • Passersby: 30,000 people/day • Attendance: 450,000 moviegoers/year • IFCcenter.com: 605,000 unique visitors, 1.1 million site visits in 2013

“DOC NYC has cemented itself as “The most comprehensive celebration Events • US theatrical premieres of major independent hits one of our favorite festivals of of the nonfiction form in the five boroughs • Festivals: Oscar®-Nominated Shorts, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, NY International Children’s Film the cultural calendar.” or anywhere else for that matter.” Festival, DOC NYC, Human Rights Watch Film Festival • Midnight movies, classics and shorts • Partnerships with , Columbia University, NYU, McSweeney’s and others • In-person appearances by filmmakers and stars like David Lynch, James Franco, Catherine Deneuve, Jane Fonda, Jonathan Demme and more

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The Netflix team - Adam Del Deo, Filmmaker Esther Robinson, Sara Bernstein (HBO Documentary Films) and Lisa Nishimura and Ted Sarandos. filmmaker Sarah McCarthy

Filmmaker Laura Poitras (Field of Vision) Some of the incredible team behind DOC NYC.

DOC NYC PRO fellows, selected by Chicken & Egg Pictures, supported by Field of Vision. Molly Thompson (A&E IndieFilms), Linda Pan and Paul Rehrig of Thom Powers, John Vanco (IFC Center) and Dan Cogan SundanceNow Doc Club. filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land). (Impact Partners)

Yvonne Welbon (Chicken & Egg Pictures) and Susan Margolin (Cinedigm). Nancy Abraham (HBO Documentary Films) and producer Julie Goldman.

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