The 13th annual edition of DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the US, will run Nov 9-27, 2022 in theaters and online.
DOC NYC is also an Academy-qualifying festival for short films. DOC NYC’s winning short will qualify for consideration in the Documentary Short Subject category of the Annual Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.
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Congratulations to all the NYWIFT members involved! We are so proud that there will be 23 films featuring the work of 20 members at this year’s festival.
Check out the 2022 Film Program for more information.
The NYWIFT member films below are sorted by alphabetical order.
1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture
Editor: Jill Woodward
Seeking the origins of homophobia in the Christian church, two LGBTQIA+ activists make a ground-breaking discovery: an erroneous translation of the word “homosexual” in the Bible.
Saturday, November 12 – 6:45 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Sunday, November 13 – 9:10 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Wednesday, November 16 – 9:30 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Sunday, November 13 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
After Sherman
Executive Producer: Leslie Fields-Cruz
Using personal and historical archival footage and observational and experimental techniques, this film offers a poignant polyphonic collage about how systemic racial discrimination and violence has affected generations in the South.
Friday, November 11, 2022 – 4:30 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Saturday, November 12 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Aftershock
Director: Paula Eiselt
Executive Producer: Dawn Porter
The stories of two New York City mothers who died from childbirth-related conditions puts a spotlight on the crisis of Black maternal deaths. (Onyx Collective)
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 4:30 PM @ IFC Center
Thursday, November 17, 2022 12:00 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Thursday, November 17 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Executive Producer: Hayley Theisen
Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) profiles artist and activist Nan Goldin as she leads protests against the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma. (NEON/Participant/HBO Documentary Films)
Friday, November 11, 2022 – 9:15 PM @ IFC Center
Anastasia
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins
Russian activist Anastasia Shevchenko comes to grips with the loss of her daughter after two years of house arrest for speaking out against the government. (MTV Documentary Films)
Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 11:00 AM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Monday, November 14, 2022 – 1:45 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Wednesday, November 09 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison
Executive Producer: Shelia Nevins
When Liza Jessie Peterson performs her one-woman play at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, she activates the men incarcerated in America’s largest prison-plantation. (MTV Documentary Films)
Wednesday, November 09, 2022 – 9:15 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Sunday, November 13, 2022 – 11:00 AM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Wednesday, November 09 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Bad Lesbian
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Madeline Johnson
A young woman reflects on her first relationship as she questions four years later, “did that happen because I’m a bad lesbian?”
Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 11:30 AM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Wednesday, November 09 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Category: Woman
Executive Producer: Cheryl Staurulakis
Athletes of color prohibited from competition in women’s sports due to discriminatory regulations struggle for their rights.
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 – 7:45 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 – 11:45 AM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Wednesday, November 16 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Children of Las Brisas
Executive Producer: Lois Vossen
Three children in a Venezuela in economic collapse channel their pain and joy into classical music as part of a unique government-sponsored program, El Sistema.
Saturday, November 12, 2022 – 2:15 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 – 10:45 AM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Sunday, November 13 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Cirque de Soleil: Without a Net
Director/Executive Producer/Producer: Dawn Porter
The world’s most famous circus prepares to remount its flagship show more than a year after an abrupt global shut-down, and performers and crew members face uncertainty as they prepare to return to the stage.
Sunday, November 13, 2022 – 2:15 PM @ SVA Theatre
Monday, November 14 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Ellis
Director/Executive Producer/Cinematographer: Sascha Just
An intimate portrait of the life and musical legacy of master pianist and composer Ellis Marsalis, patriarch of the “First Family of Jazz.”
Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 7:30 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Friday, November 11, 2022 – 11:00 AM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Friday, November 11 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
For Love And Legacy
Director/Producer: A.K. Sandhu
Creating a memorial bust of the Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton generates a rich collaboration between his widow Fredrika Newton and sculptor Dana King.
Monday, November 14, 2022 – 4:15 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Wednesday, November 09 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
In Search of the Blue Heart
Director/Producer/Editor: Amelia Deschamps
After 32 years working as a miner, Daniel Quezada seeks to make this his last extraction to retire and dedicate his life to the stone trade.
Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 4:00 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Wednesday, November 09 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Producer: Laura Michalchyshyn
A look at the life and career of the two-time, four-term Governor of California, and his record of forward-thinking policymaking.
Sunday, November 13, 2022 – 7:15 PM @ IFC Center
Monday, November 14, 2022 – 12:00 PM @ IFC Center
Monday, November 14 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Last Flight Home
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins
Award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner (Dig!, We Live in Public) creates a deeply personal family portrait about her 92-year-old father Eli as he chooses to end his own life. (MTV Documentary Films)
Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 4:15 PM @ IFC Center
Monday, November 14, 2022 – 11:15 AM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Friday, November 11 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Love in the Time of Fentanyl
Executive Producer: Lois Vossen
With fentanyl overdose deaths at an all-time high in Vancouver, Canada, the Overdose Prevention Society creates a safe injection site to save lives and support their community.
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 – 6:45 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Thursday, November 17, 2022 – 9:00 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Wednesday, November 16 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Maya and the Wave
Executive Producer: Ruth Ann Harnisch
Filmmaker Stephanie Johnes’ thrilling documentary follows world-champion Brazilian surfer Maya Gabeira, who battles against monster waves as well as sexism in the male-dominated field of competitive surfing.
Wednesday, November 09, 2022 – 6:45 PM @ SVA Theatre
NAVALNY
Executive Producer: Amy Entelis
This real-life thriller follows the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as he attempts to identify the agents sent to assassinate him. (Warner Bros./CNN Films/HBO Max)
Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 9:20 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Friday, November 11 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling
Director/Producer/Editor/Cinematographer: Jennifer Lane
Legendary experimental artist Robert Irwin explores his radical career that culminates in Marfa, Texas, with a free-standing installation that challenges consumerism, human nature and technology’s mediation of the world.
Saturday, November 12, 2022 – 1:15 PM @ SVA Theatre
Sunday, November 13 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
Sam Now
Executive Producer: Lois Vossen
A road trip through love, loss and longing told by two brothers over 25 years, using every video format imaginable.
Saturday, November 12, 2022 – 9:10 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Thursday, November 17, 2022 – 4:45 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Sunday, November 13 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
The Conspiracy
Executive Producer: Caroline Hirsch
Executive Producer: Mala Chapple
A bold, visually striking animated documentary that traces the origins of the insidious conspiracy theory that Jews have a plot to control the world, and charts how such antisemitic ideas persist today.
Thursday, November 17, 2022 – 7:00 PM @ SVA Theatre
Friday, November 18 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
The House of Labeija
Director/Producer: Fredgy Noël
Meet the House of LaBeija, a prominent ballroom family and safe haven for transgender women, queer people, and those in need of community.
Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 11:30 AM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Wednesday, November 09 – Sunday, November 27, 2022: Online Screening
The Janes
Executive Producer: Susan Lacy
The Janes explores the hidden history of a Chicago grassroots organization that helped women end unwanted pregnancies in the years before Roe v. Wade. (HBO Documentary Films)
Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 1:30 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Monday, November 14, 2022 – 4:00 PM @ Cinépolis Chelsea
Friday, November 11 – Saturday, November 12, 2022: Online Screening
Members at DOCNYC’s Industry Roundtable
(program–formerly known as Only In New York–facilitates face-to-face meetings between leading industry decision-makers and filmmakers with works-in-progress)
Remarkable Women
NYWIFT members, Nora Jacobson, Jane Applegate and their collaborators have been invited to pitch their episodic series to decision makers attending the Industry Roundtable program at DOC/NYC 2022. A dozen filmmakers around the world are researching and developing stories about remarkable women who overcame gender and racial discrimination to achieve personal success.
More details are available online at: https://www.remarkablewomenstories.com.
Happy Campers
The working-class denizens of a scrappy seasonal trailer park reveal the secrets to a rich life as the march of capitalism closes in on their shabby Shangri-La.
Director/Producer: Amy Nicholson
