NEW YORK’S DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
ELEVENTH EDITION NOV 11–19, 2020
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST “One of the city’s grandest film events.”
Hailed as Spans downtown “ambitious” Manhattan from IFC Center to 300+ SVA Theatre and FILMS & EVENTS “Selective Cinépolis Chelsea but eclectic”
Artistic Director, Thom Powers Exec. Director, Raphaela Neihausen Thom Powers programs for the Toronto Raphaela Neihausen & Powers run the weekly International Film Festival and hosts the series Pure Nonfiction at IFC Center and host podcast Pure Nonfiction. WNYC’s “Documentary of the Week.”
Dir. of Programming, Basil Tsiokos DOC NYC Shorts Programmer, Opal H. Bennett Basil Tsiokos is Documentary Programming Opal H. Bennett is Producer for POV Shorts as Associate for the Sundance Film Festival well as Programmer for Athena Film Festival and and Film Program Director for the Nantucket Aspen ShortsFest. Film Festival.
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DOC NYC is proud to have worked with more than 75 partners over its 10 years, including many of the most prominent companies in the documentary and media spaces. The majority of our partners have returned for multiple editions of the festival, with most coming back for more than five years running.
Adorama EJF Philanthropies Mahou Beer Stoli Agile Ticketing ESPN MTV Documentary Films SundanceNow Apple Essentia Water National Geographic Doc. Films SVA Audible Focus Features NBCUniversal Archives Technicolor-Postworks NY Bloomberg Philanthropies Fox Rothschild LLP NEON Topic Studios Blue Point Brewing Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz New Yorker Documentary Topo Designs BMG Films Goose Island Owl’s Brew Tribeca Grand Hotel Brooklyn Roasting Co. Heineken Participant Media VH1 & Logo Documentary Films Chicago Media Project History Films Peru Ministry of Tourism & Culture Vulcan Productions Chicken & Egg Pictures Illy Pond5 Wheelhouse Creative Citibank Image Nation Abu Dhabi Posteritati WNYC City of New York Mayor’s Office Impact Partners PTEX World Channel for Media & Entertainment IndieWire RADiUS Writers Guild of America, East CNN Films International Documentary Assoc. Reavis Page Jump LLP The Yard Consulate General of Canada in NY JustFilms/Ford Foundation Red Bull Film ZICO Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard Kanopy RYOT Discovery Kickstarter The Screening Room Docurama Lexus Sony
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DOC NYC’S AUDIENCE REACH
60k 125k 300+ 30k VISITS DOCNYC.NET REACHED BY EMAIL FILM & EVENTS TICKET BUYERS 120+ 300+ 112 NAT’L & INT’L MEDIA SPECIAL GUESTS PREMIERES OUTLETS PROVIDING PRESS COVERAGE
SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT
@IFCCENTER @DOCNYCFEST @THOMPOWERS @1BASIL1 66K 23K 38K 27K 6K 15K 22K 17K WEEKLY NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS: WEEKLY NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS: ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING 36K 22K
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST All five Oscar-nominated features and three DOC NYC’s Short List of the five nominated short documentaries has a strong track record played on DOC NYC’s short lists in 2019:
® of predicting Oscar DOCUMENTARY FEATURES: winners and nominees! American Factory For Sama The Cave Honeyland (Also Nominated For American Factory The Edge of Democracy Best International Film) 2020 OSCAR® WINNER DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECTS: In the Absence Learning to Skateboard (World Premiere & Jury Prize Winner at DOC NYC 2018) in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) ® 2020 OSCAR WINNER St. Louis Superman
OSCAR WINNERS AND NOMINEES FROM DOC NYC SHORT LIST
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 Hale County This Abacus: 13th Cartel Land Finding Vivian Maier The Act of Killing 5 Broken Cameras Morning, This Evening Small Enough To Jail Fire at Sea The Look of Silence Last Days in Vietnam Dirty Wars How to Survive Minding the Gap Faces Places a Plague I Am Not Your Negro What Happened, The Salt of the Earth The Square Of Fathers & Sons Strong Island Miss Simone? Life, Animated RBG Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Free Solo Icarus O.J.: Made in America Amy Citizenfour 20 Feet from Stardom Searching for Sugar Man 2019 OSCAR WINNER 2018 OSCAR WINNER 2017 OSCAR WINNER 2016 OSCAR WINNER 2015 OSCAR WINNER 2014 OSCAR WINNER 2013 OSCAR WINNER
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Mary-Louise Parker and Susan Sarandon
Harry Belafonte and Rosario Dawson
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Werner Herzog Soledad O’Brien
Chris Rock
Hillary Clinton and Katie Couric Christo Mai Khoi and Julie Taymor Jared Leto
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Al Sharpton
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Jim Carrey
Anjelica Huston
Emma Watson and Thandie Newton
Eric Clapton Big Bird David Byrne Sarah Polley
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST The annual Visionaries Tribute Luncheon honors the legends of documentary filmmaking. Each year’s Tribute has been sold out, bringing together industry leaders, filmmakers, distributors, producers, and Academy members.
Gotham Hall
Nanfu Wang and Waad al-Kateab
Heidi Ewing, Barbara Kopple, Ron Howard Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar Wim Wenders and Rachel Grady
“One of the most significant gatherings of documentary filmmakers in history”
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST DOC NYC PRO Industry Conference 200+ industry leaders • 50+ panels & masterclasses • 8 days
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DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST Only In NY features four days of networking sessions with filmmakers and industry professionals from 40+ companies including: Amazon Studios, Cinetic, Discovery, HBO Documentary Films, Netflix, RadicalMedia, Showtime Documentary Films, Submarine, and many others.
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“This cinematic “DOC NYC “The city’s bonanza covers is a highlight of the “A kingmaker premiere festival of everything new and NYC culture for documentaries.” nonfiction film.” noteworthy in the calendar every year.” world of documentary filmmaking.”
“An essential event “The most comprehensive “DOC NYC has on the cinephile’s celebration of the nonfiction form cemented itself as one calendar.” in the five boroughs or anywhere of our favorite festivals of else for that matter.” the cultural calendar.”
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: 36k subscribers • Quarterly programs distributed throughout NYC: 30k • Passersby: 30k people / day • Attendance: 313k moviegoers / year • IFCcenter.com: 1M unique visitors, 1.8M site visits in 2019 • Twitter: 66k; Instagram: 23.5k; Facebook: 38k EVENTS • US theatrical premieres of major independent hits • Festivals: 51Fest, 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
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST DOC NYC Partners & Friends A wide range of industry and cultural leaders consistently attend the festival.
Lucila Moctezuma (Chicken & Egg) and Jeff Seelbech (Topic Studios).
Adam Del Deo, Lisa Nishimura, Ted Sarandos (Netflix)
Thom Powers, Raphaela Neihausen and Molly Thompson (Apple), Filmmaker Chris Hegedus Vinne Malhotra (Showtime Documentary Films)
Libby Geist (ESPN, 30 for 30) and Alex Gibney and Sheila Nevins Catherine Scheinman (Consulate General of Canada, Tom Quinn (Neon), Arianna Bocco (IFC Films), Mira Chang (Show of Force) (MTV Documentary Films) Cultural Affairs) and Raphaela Neihausen Dan Cogan (Impact Partners)
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DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST DOC NYC 2020: 40 Under 40 Class DOC NYC’s annual 40 Under 40 list honors 40 documentary talents under the age of 40, spanning the disciplines of directing, producing, editing, and cinematography.
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST One-of-a-Kind Moments Each festival features memorable guests and inspired audiences.
DOCNYC.NET @DOCNYCFEST DOC NYC’s Festival Staff Pictured are some of the 200 people who make the festival run each year, many of whom have particapted since year one.
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