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The Tribeca Film Institute is offering funding to documentary filmmakers who are making a film with a focus on a social issue. The projects must present a non-fiction story focused on social issues and include an integrated cross-platform or interactive component designed to engage and activate...

The Cinema Eye Honors, dedicated to honoring the craft of nonfiction filmmaking, are back for their fourth edition coming up on Tuesday, January 18 at the newly revamped Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. With much debate over the Oscars documentary selection again this year, the Cinema Eye...

Edited by Emily Terkel

Last December, Scott MacDonald, one of the country’s foremost film scholars, visited UnionDocs for two evenings to explore the intertwined histories of documentary and avant-garde film. In his varied programs and during the sometimes contentious discussions that followed, MacDonald...

Thursday, May 13 @ 8:00 PM RACING DREAMS (2009) Q&A with director Marshall Curry moderated by Steve Holmgren Racing Dreams Marshall Curry, the Academy Award nominated director of STREET FIGHT, returns with an exquisite look at coming of age through the eyes of three adolescents who...

In recognition of Coney Island’s newest amusement park opening Memorial Weekend, we’re hosting a benefit preview screening of JL Aronson’s upcoming documentary, Last Summer at Coney Island. We will screen a 93 minute fine cut version of the documentary.  The film will be going...

Based on the story “Toomai of the Elephants,” from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book,” Elephant Boy is the tale of Little Toomai, who seeks and wins adulthood and professional stature as an elephant herder by witnessing the secret and sacred nighttime dance of the elephants. Sabu,...

Thom Power’s documentary series Stranger Than Fiction, which runs Tuesday evenings at the IFC Center, has kicked off its Spring season.  Highlights include a sneak of Steven Soderbergh’s doc about Spalding Gray, And Everything is Going Fine (with him in person!) and STF will welcome...

Documentary Film: Catching the Critics Eye 4:00-6:00 pm The past decade witnessed an explosion of documentary film production. Non-fiction films are being distributed more widely, and exhibited in grander settings than ever before. Filmgoers across the country are hungrier than ever for docs...

DCTV Presents Meet the Funders Tue 3/23 | 7:30pm | DCTV Join us as Natalie Difford (Chicken & Egg Pictures ), Ryan Harrington (Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund) and Adella Ladjevardi (Cinereach) calm our nerves and share their invaluable funding criteria with us. DCTV Presents Road...