NYFF Live: Documentary Panel

Part of

54th New York Film Festival

September 30 - 11, 2016

A cross-section of this year’s Spotlight on Documentary directors will be present to discuss their films.

RUNTIME
60 minutes

Compressed and expansive, eclectic and vérité, objective examinations and works of passionate advocacy: this year’s Spotlight on Documentary selections represent a wide spectrum of today’s nonfiction cinema. A cross-section of this year’s directors will be present to discuss their films in this panel. Guests include Simon Dotan (The Settlers), Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens (Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds), and Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger (Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan). Moderated by Film Society Executive Director Lesli Klainberg.

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