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Co-founder @DOCNYCfest Curator @TIFF_net @MiamiFilmFest. Host @PureNonfiction, @WNYC Documentary of the Week. Made in Detroit.

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How does promoting gambling to students fit the mission of higher education? nytimes.com/2022/11/20/busin…

How Colleges and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life (Published 2022)

In order to reap millions of dollars in fees, universities are partnering with betting companies to introduce their students and sports fans to online gambling.

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Love & Rockets forever! ⁦@fantagraphics⁩ nytimes.com/2022/11/19/books…

‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40 (Published 2022)

With its Chicana punk rockers and panels of untranslated Spanish, “Rockets” was unlike anything else — and, it turns out, just what the world of comics was craving.

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Best of #DOCNYC round-up. Films still playing online through Nov 27 bradschreiber-29377.medium.c…

Best of the 2022 DOC NYC Film Fest

The latest iteration of the nation’s biggest documentary film festival ended Nov. 17 in New York theatres but provides 90 streaming options…

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The awards for the 2022 @DOCNYCfest festival were handed out on Friday, with "Casa Susanna" and "How to Save a Dead Friend" highlighting the grand jury prize winners. ow.ly/g53N50LIy2g
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“Sr.” about the underground filmmaker Robert Downey is our @WNYC Doc of the Week, now playing at @IFCCenter wnyc.org/story/meet-elder-ro…

Meet the elder Robert Downey in "Sr." | WNYC

Before there was Robert Downey Jr., there was his namesake father, an underground filmmaker, who's profiled in "Sr."

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#DOCNYC continues online in the US through Nov 27 docnyc.net/program/?alpha=ab…

2026 DOC NYC Program

Visit the DOC NYC website for more information about our 2026 films.

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Wondering if Qatar’s ban on beer will garner more attention than deaths of migrant workers who built the stadiums nytimes.com/2022/11/18/sport…

Ban on Beer Is Latest Flash Point in World Cup Culture Clash (Published 2022)

Qatar’s about-face on alcohol signaled that FIFA, soccer’s governing body, may no longer be in full control of its showcase championship.

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There is no bottom to the shame of #WorldcupQatar2022 amp.theguardian.com/global-d…

Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded

Guardian analysis indicates shocking figure over the past decade likely to be an underestimate

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Frederick Wiseman talks to ⁦@NicolasRapold⁩ about his new film opening at ⁦@FilmForumNYC⁩ nytimes.com/2022/11/11/movie…

Examining the Regrettably Modern Marriage of Leo Tolstoy and Sophia Tolstaya (Published 2022)

Frederick Wiseman set aside the documentaries he’s known for to work on “A Couple,” a solo drama putting Leo Tolstoy’s much-burdened wife at its center.

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Courtney Sexton Exiting CNN Films to Rejoin Participant ⁦@IndieWire⁩ indiewire.com/2022/11/courtn…

Courtney Sexton Exiting CNN Films to Rejoin Participant Overseeing Documentary Film

The news network announced last month it would stop commissioning long-form documentaries from third parties.

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Tonight is the world premiere of the Roberta Flack documentary at #DOCNYC. Hear the director on @AllOfItWNYC wnyc.org/story/roberta-docum…

'Roberta' Documentary | WNYC

Preview of documentary on celebrated vocalist Roberta Flack

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While We Watched premiered in New York City to a full house at @DOCNYCfest! Not a seat empty and the line of people waiting to get into the screening went around the block. There multiple standing ovations and long hugs after the film. To everybody who came out - thank you. 1/3
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“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” opens Nov 23 at ⁦@IFCCenter⁩. nytimes.com/2022/11/16/movie…

Nan Goldin and Laura Poitras: Two Artists, One Devastating Film (Published 2022)

The documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” tells a complex story of personal trauma and protest. But first the collaborators needed to reach an agreement.

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I’ve been learning from ⁦@ElvisMitchell⁩ since his days as the ⁦@freep⁩ film critic decades ago. Look for his documentary debut on Netflix. nytimes.com/2022/11/11/movie…

For Elvis Mitchell, Critic Turned Filmmaker, a Chance to Show and Tell (Published 2022)

His new documentary on Netflix, “Is That Black Enough for You?!?,” spotlights unsung Black cinema of the 1970s.

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Can’t wait to read the new memoir by Joyce Chopra indiewire.com/2022/11/joyce-…

Go Ahead, Call Joyce Chopra a ‘Lady Director’ One More Time

The "Smooth Talk" filmmaker is sharing her life and career in a brand new memoir with a cheeky title.

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Thread: thanks to @WomenaHollywood for their extensive coverage of #DOCNYC directors womenandhollywood.com/doc-ny…
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CHILDREN OF LAS BRISAS director Marianela Maldonado interviewed in @womenahollywood at #DOCNYC womenandhollywood.com/doc-ny…
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CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: WITHOUT A NET director Dawn Porter interviewed in @womenahollywood at #DOCNYC womenandhollywood.com/doc-ny…
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