Edith+Eddie, Abacus head to DOC NYC
October 13, 2017 11:55 am
Edith+Eddie by filmmaker Laura Checkoway and Abacus: Small Enough to Jail by director Steve James continue their respectively successful and award-winning festival runs – both traveling to DOC NYC, America's largest documentary film festival, running November 9-16.
Three films that went through our KTQ Labs program will also have their NYC premieres at the fest, including Shot in the Dark, Samantha's Amazing Acrocats and Zero Weeks
Abacus screenings at DOC NYC
- Sunday, November 12 - 11:15AM: The Sung Family and producers Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman in attendance.
- Wednesday, November 15 - 11:45AM: The Sung Family and producers Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman in attendance.
Edith+Eddie screenings at DOC NYC
- Tuesday, November 14 - 5:15PM: Filmmaker Laura Checkoway and associate producer/editor P. Corwin Lamm in attendance.
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail was named to DOC NYC's Short List of Oscar contenders in late September. Historically, most DOC NYC picks do land on the Academy's official 15-film Oscar Short List.
DOC NYC will be the NYC premiere for Edith+Eddie, which recently earned the Best Documentary Short Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
Find upcoming Abacus screenings here.
Find upcoming Edith+Eddie screenings here.
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