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Documentary storytelling is flourishing like never before - encompassing reportage, memoir, history, humor and more. We're launching DOC NYC to celebrate this cultural phenomenon and encourage its new directions.

Among its missions, DOC NYC aims to:

1. CURATE: guide audiences toward inspiring work.
2. CROSS FERTILIZE: gather practitioners of many fields - filmmakers, writers, photographers and other storytellers to inspire each other.
3. CROSS GENERATIONS: use the festival's partnership with New York University as a means for younger and older voices to communicate.
4. CULTIVATE NEW AUDIENCES: attract newcomers with the excitement of a festival atmosphere.
5. EXPAND DISTRIBUTION: help documentary storytellers make the most of emerging technologies such as video downloads, podcasts and electronic readers.
6. CREATE SOCIAL SPACE: bring people together in theaters, lounges, and discussion spaces around New York's Washington Square area.
7. MAKE THE MOST OF NYC: foster fresh connections between residents and expose visitors to the opportunities that happen only in New York.

For the past five years, the team behind DOC NYC has been building a community around the weekly documentary film series Stranger Than Fiction at the IFC Center. Our background of hosting documentary makers from around the world and consistently selling out shows has given us practical experience to launch this festival.

Some of our favorite STF nights have involved connecting film to other worlds - as we filled the theater full of war photographers for BLOOD TRAIL or advertising executives for ART & COPY or restaurateurs for A TABLE IN HEAVEN. While STF will continue its weekly run on Tuesday nights, DOC NYC allows us to focus a different kind of energy into one concentrated chunk of time.

Mark your calendar for November 3-7, 2010 and bookmark this space for updates. We look forward to seeing you.