New films by Mariska Hargitay, Raoul Peck and Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus were among the titles that made the Short List for the 16th annual Doc NYC festival, which takes place Nov. 12 – 30. An early precursor of Oscar nominations in the Best Documentary Feature and Documentary Short categories, Doc NYC has screened the feature doc that went on to win the Academy Award in 13 of the past 14 years. Additionally, the festival has screened 59 of the last 70 Oscar-nominated documentary features.
This year’s festival will present 116 features, including 30 World Premieres and 34 U.S. premieres. Sundance award winners “Cutting Through Rocks” (from Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni) and David Borenstein’s “Mr. Nobody Against Putin…