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One of many premier U.S. documentary movie festivals, DOC NYC, unveiled its essential slate for this 12 months’s occasion on Thursday (October 13).

DOC NYC’s 2022 lineup contains greater than 200 movies, together with greater than 110 feature-length documentaries, 29 world premieres and 27 U.S. premieres. The total program launched as we speak follows on from the pageant’s previous announcement of Maya and the Wave (pictured) as its opening night time movie, The Conspiracy as its closing night time movie, and Cirque du Soleil: With out a Internet and Gumbo Coalition as centerpiece screenings.

Movies making their world premiere at DOC NYC this 12 months embody a number of profiles on main figures within the arts, historical past and politics, together with Ellis, on Ellis Marsalis, the patriarch of the ‘First Household of Jazz’; Idina Menzel: Which Method to the Stage?; Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story, concerning the Chinese language-American photojournalist; Radical Landscapes, on visionary architect Fabrizio Fiumi; Roberta, on singer Roberta Flack; Who Is Stan Smith, concerning the Nineteen Seventies tennis champion; and Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling, on the experimental set up artist.

Different world premieres at DOC NYC embody The 50, a couple of reform program inside California’s overcrowded state jail system; 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted a Tradition, which explores how and why the phrase “homosexuality” didn’t seem in Bible translations till 1946; Large Battle in Little Chinatown, about existential threats to Chinatowns in main North American cities; Lázaro and the Shark: Cuba Below the Floor, which paperwork citizen frustrations inside Cuba; Mortgage Wolves, on the origins of the trendy pupil debt disaster; and A Witch Story, concerning the Salem witch trials and their fashionable relevance.

DOC NYC additionally boasts the North American premiere of Ithaka, about Richard Assange’s struggle for his son Julian’s freedom, because the WikiLeaks founder faces down extradition to the U.S. Making their U.S. premieres on the pageant are Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On, concerning the folks singer and activist; Casa Susanna, which seems to be at an earlier period of trans identification; the fashion-industry doc Kingdom of Desires; and Whereas We Watched, about threats to impartial journalism in India.

DOC NYC’s Sonic Cinema part of music docs returns this 12 months with world premieres of Misplaced Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill, concerning the Nineteen Seventies folks singer-songwriter; and The Elephant 6 Recording Co., on the psychedelic rock collective born out of Athens, Georgia. Additionally returning to the pageant for a second 12 months is the Kaleidoscope Competitors, which spotlights essayistic and formally adventurous documentaries; and the long-running Metropolis Competitors, which showcases New York tales

Different verticals on the 2022 pageant embody the Shorts Competitors, that includes 67 movies; the Meet the Press Movie Pageant, a one-day showcase of 15 movies that brings collectively filmmakers and NBC Information correspondents on November 15; and DOC NYC U, which incorporates 34 pupil movies from 9 New York Metropolis colleges.

DOC NYC may even maintain a pre-festival screening on November 8 of Werner Herzog’s The Hearth Inside: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft, a tribute to the famend volcanologists who have been additionally lined in Sara Dosa’s award-winning Hearth of Love, which premiered earlier this 12 months.

The pageant is introducing the Odyssey Influence award at this 12 months’s occasion, which can supply a $10,000 money prize and six-month nationwide impression marketing campaign, led by Odyssey Influence, to at least one brief movie with a social justice theme and a powerful name to motion.

DOC NYC 2022 runs from November 9 to 17, and continues on-line via November 27. The pageant’s full program may be discovered on its website.