DOC NYC today unveiled its main slate for the 15^th anniversary of America’s biggest documentary festival, a lineup that includes 31 world premieres and 24 U.S. premieres.

The festival, running from November 13-21 in Manhattan (and continuing online until Dec. 1) will open with the U.S. premiere of Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story, directed by Sinead O’Shea, a portrait of the acclaimed Irish writer who died in July at the age of 93. Closing the festival on Nov. 21 will be the world premiere of Drop Dead City – New York on the Brink in 1975, directed by Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn, “a look back at the circumstances and players involved in NYC’s mid-70s financial crisis.” (The film’s title refers to a legendary headline in the New York Daily News reporting on then-Pres. Ford’s promise in October 1975 to veto any federal bailout of the Big Apple).

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SHORTS: IN THE MAKING

Screening as an out-of-competition special presentation, Season 3 of this short film series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows artists on their way to becoming masters of their disciplines.

Camille A. Brown: Giant Steps (Dirs: Michelle Parkerson, Shellée M. Haynesworth/Prod: Shellée M. Haynesworth)

Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call (Dir/Prods: Sonia Kennebeck, Tetiana Anderson)

Edel Rodriguez: Freedom is a Verb (Dirs: Mecky Creus, Adrienne Hall/Prod: Adrienne Hall)

Gioncarlo Valentine: Exposures (Dir: Zeshawn Ali/Prod: Sarah Ema Friedland)

House of Aama: Threads of Legacy (Dir: Jamal Ademola/Prods: Kris Simms, Jamal

Ademola)

Maryam Taghavi: Estranged Letters (Dir: Assia Boundaoui/Prods: Naeema Jamilah

Torres, Assia Boundaoui)

Norman Teague: Love Reigns Supreme (Dir: Adewole A. Abioye/Prod: Aderemi Abioye)

Sarah Thankam Mathews: After All This (Dir: Andrew Nadkarni/Prods: Maryam Mir, Andrew Nadkarni)

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