DOC NYC 2024 Looks at Graphic Novelists, Outlaw Hot Air Balloons & Taking on the Russian Government

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Published on Monday, 04 November 2024 14:43

Written by Brad Balfour

Balomania

For over a decade DOC NYC has assembled documentary filmmakers from around the world to tell unique stories. DOC NYC returns, running November 13th to December 1 at  theaters across New York City including the IFC Center and SVA Theater, with many of the docs also including appearances from the filmmakers.

Films include the world premiere of All God’s Children, directed by Ondi Timoner, about a rabbi and a pastor working together to de-escalate tensions between Jewish and Black Brooklynites. In Black Snow, directed by Alina Simone, Natalia Zubkova fights to expose the truth behind the Russian government’s corruption around coal. Balomania, from Sissel Morell Dargis, is a look at the free spirited and outlandish world of Brazilian baloeiros –  secret groups of men who craft and launch elaborate hot-air balloons. Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse is a documentary from Molly Bernstein and Philip Dolin on the acclaimed comic artist and creator of the Holocaust memoir Maus. This is only a sampling of the documentaries being screened.

DOC NYC’s eleventh annual Visionaries Tribute will take place on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at Gotham Hall, bestowing Lifetime Achievement awards to Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Alan Berliner (Letter to the Editor) and Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Marcia Smith (president and co-founder of Firelight Media, a nonprofit organization that supports, resources, and advocates on behalf of documentary filmmakers of color). 

To learn more, go to: https://www.docnyc.net/

DOC NYC
November 13 - December 1, 2024

Various Venues in NYC

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