11/13/2024 to 12/01/2024
11 Penn Plaza New York, NY 10001 United States,
Launched in 2010, DOC NYC quickly became America’s largest documentary film festival. The festival audience continued to grow through the pandemic years as DOC NYC maintained its impressive size and expanded its dates and capacity to include online screenings. The 2024 edition will continue DOC NYC’s hybrid format, welcoming filmmakers and audiences back into New York theaters from November 13 – 21, and then continuing online through December 1. The festival has hosted hundreds of world premieres over the years including “South to Black Power”, “David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived”, “Making a Murderer,” “Amazing Grace,” “Far From the Tree,” “Dean Martin: King of Cool,” and “Adrienne.”
The festival annually attracts a Who’s Who of documentary filmmakers. Past attendees include Barbara Kopple, Werner Herzog, Laura Poitras, Raoul Peck, Agnes Varda, Wim Wenders, Stanley Nelson, Errol Morris, Brett Morgen, Matthew Heineman, Davis Guggenheim, Margaret Brown, Lucy Walker, Nanfu Wang, Asif Kapadia, Michael Moore, Dawn Porter, Ondi Timoner, Ramin Bahrani, Marina Zenovich, E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Shaunak Sen, Sara Dosa and many more.
Additionally, the location of New York City creates unique opportunities for special guest appearances. Past DOC NYC guests include Martin Scorsese, Whoopi Goldberg, Rashida Jones, Daniel Radcliffe, Peter Sarsgaard, Steve Madden, Dan Rather, Ethan Hawke, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Olympia Dukakis, Jim Carrey, Sarah Polley, Reverend Al Sharpton, Ricki Lake, Sonja Sohn, Jonathan Franzen, Dick Cavett, Harvey Fierstein, Alfre Woodard, Omar Epps, Sonia Sanchez, Jonathan Lethem, Greil Marcus, Mariska Hargitay, Jim Jarmusch, Billie Jean King, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ramy Yousef and many more.
Music films have always thrived at the festival in the Sonic Cinema section and other categories. Special guests over the years include Dionne Warwick, Kenny G, Itzhak Perlman, David Byrne, Kathleen Hanna, Anohni, Bela Fleck, J Cole, Jakob Dylan, Ronnie Spector, Steven Van Zandt, Cissy Houston, Fanny, Spandau Ballet, Idina Menzel, Wynton Marsalis and The Mekons.