Magazine article Screen International
NYFF Unveils Doc Programme
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Poitras, winner of this year's best documentary Oscar for Citizenfour, will preview the Julian Assange series Asylum.
Wiseman's 40th documentary feature In Jackson Heights (pictured) profiles the culturally diverse New York neighbourhood caught in the midst of economic development.
In Fish Tail, Pinto and husband Leonel document the artisanal work of small-scale fishermen in the Azorean island of Rabo de Peixe. Salles' Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang profiles the Chinese director as he revisits his hometown.
Spotlight on Documentary line-up:
Everything Is Copy (USA), Jacob Bernstein
World Premiere
Field Of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction (USA-Germany), Laura Poitras
World Premiere
Fish Tail (Rabo de Peixe) (Portugal), Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel
North American premiere
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (Iraq-France), Abbas Fahdel,
Part 1: Before The Fall
Part 2: AfterThe Battle
North American Premiere
Immigration Battle (USA), Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson
World Premiere
Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words (Sweden), Stig Björkman
In Jackson Heights (USA), Frederick Wiseman
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang (Brazil-France), Walter Salles
North American Premiere
Rebel Citizen (USA), Pamela Yates
World Premiere
Troublemakers: The Story Of Land Art (USA), James Crump
We Are Alive (On Est Vivants) (France-Belgium), Carmen Castillo
North American Premiere
The Witness (USA), James Solomon
World Premiere. …