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CRITERIONCAST: DOC NYC 2016

Now in its seventh year, the New York City-based and documentary-focused film festival aptly titled DOC NYC has become a mainstay on the documentary festival circuit. Along with series like Hot Docs and the more avant-garde-heavy True/False, DOC NYC is slowly but surely becoming one of the must-attend festivals for cinephiles who have an affinity for the non-fiction side of cinema.

Indie Wire – DOC NYC Festival 2016

DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, announces the full lineup for its seventh edition, which runs from November 10-17 at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village and Chelsea’s SVA Theatre and Cinepolis Chelsea.

Creativity Online

A music-video style ad tells the story of a woman who once spent her life as an office zombie, “filing data” mindlessly while getting pasty under her office’s fluorescent lights. But finally, through Avon, she broke free and became her own boss — one who makes her own schedule and is able to multi-task and cares for her family as she pleases.

Variety: ‘The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography’

Though his filmography often consists of long interviews with hideous men, documentarian Errol Morris is nearly unequaled in his ability to inject empathy, or at least basic humanity, into explorations of figures as difficult as Holocaust denier Fred A. Leuchter or war architects Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld.

Variety: Film Review ‘Free Fire’

British director Ben Wheatley assembles an eccentric cast in this down-and-dirty action movie, centered on an arms deal gone bad.

Telluride Film Festival 2016

A warm and hugely entertaining documentary about a woman whose work gained fame for utilising the Polaroid 20×24 camera

The Hollywood Reporter

‘The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography’: Telluride Review

The Boston Globe

Errol Morris’s Elsa Dorfman film to screen at upcoming festivals

Deadline Hollywood

Toronto Sets Documentary Program With Leonardo DiCaprio, Fisher Stevens, Errol Morris & Netflix Pics

Shootonline – Directors Joost, Schulman Show “Nerve”

The invigorating new thriller “Nerve ,” now playing in theaters, goes deep into the psychology of the internet with an addictive game that’s so fresh, you wonder whether the filmmakers had a tip that the Pokemon Go craze was on the horizon.

David Reviews – “Project Everyone”

It’s twenty years since The Spice Girls recorded one of the most emblematic songs of the 1990s and – in so doing – added the term ‘Girl Power’ to the vernacular.

David Reviews – Bugsy Signs for Moxie

Moxie Pictures have the caught the bug as it were thanks to their signing of director Bugsy to their international roster.