This year’s 7th annual DOC NYC film festival has seven Jewish flicks on its schedule, some having their North American or US premieres, others showing for the first time in NYC. America’s largest documentary festival runs November 10-17 at the IFC Center, which produces the event, and includes 110 feature-length documentaries and 102 shorts. Films…
“I’ve never looked for easy,” Danae Elon told the crowd at the Doc NYC film festival on November 14, after the American premiere of her film, “P.S. Jerusalem.” In the film, Elon, who is the Jerusalem-born daughter of Israeli writer Amos Elon, decides to take her Algerian-born husband and their three children from the comfortable…
Filmmaker Josh Freed is willing to do a lot for the sake of his art, including casting himself in a negative light. His debut documentary, “Five Weddings and a Felony,” which premieres November 6 at the DOC NYC film festival, is Freed’s personal journey as a Jewish 28-year-old New York guy, trying to figure out…
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