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DOC NYC

DOC NYC is is an Academy Award® qualifying festival for documentary short subject category.

About

DOC NYC, New York’s documentary festival, is an annual event based in Manhattan at the IFC Center, SVA Theatre, and Cinépolis Chelsea. Launched in 2010, the festival is the country’s largest documentary film festival with over 300 films and events and 250 special guests. By 2014, DOC NYC had become America’s largest documentary film festival and voted by MovieMaker magazine as one of the “top five coolest documentary film festivals in the world”. The festival takes place over 9 days in November at the West Village’s IFC Center, Chelsea’s Cinépolis, and SVA Theater.

DOC NYC is is an Academy Award® qualifying festival and the winning short film will qualify for consideration in the Documentary Short Subject category of the Annual Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.

Categories

• Features
• Shorts
• Short List: Features
• Short List: Shorts

Awards

DOC NYC annually presents juried awards to Competition titles, with award details to be announced on docnyc.net. Additionally, DOC NYC presents an Audience Award that is open to all features screening in any section of the festival, with the exception of films in the Short List, Winner’s Circle, Special Events, or retrospective films.

For 2022, DOC NYC has partnered with Odyssey Impact, Inc. who will be awarding a $10,000 cash prize and a six-month National Impact Campaign to one short 10-40 minute film that has a social justice theme and a strong call to action.

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