The Downtown Community Television Center, a nonprofit organization devoted to documentary film education, will begin construction in March on a $3.2 million documentary-only movie theater, center officials said.
For early photography was largely devoted to documentary purposes and, in the apparent fidelity of its representations, the camera in the 19th century exceeded the naturalist drives of painters who, during the Renaissance and early modern period, tried to explore, and so tame, nature by rendering it into art.
This week marks the beginning of DOC NYC, the two-week long festival devoted to documentary storytelling of all kinds.
Do you plan any fiction films in the future or are you devoted to documentaries?
"Historically, yes, that's the voice," said Deirdre Haj, who was recently named the executive director of Full Frame, an annual festival in Durham, N.C., devoted to documentaries.
In East Hills, at the Jacobson Jewish Community Center on Forest Drive, a "Jewish Film Festival" devoted to documentaries begins with "The Port of Last Resort" at 7 30 p.m.
There was already a connection between the One Club and PBS: the PBS series "Independent Lens," which is devoted to documentaries, bought rights to "Art & Copy" and broadcast it in 2010.
In a special section devoted to documentaries by directors better known for fiction, Masahiro Shinoda's 1975 film "The Ondeko-Za on Sado" was a remarkable study of a group of young people who dropped out of modern society to devote their lives to the art of Japanese drumming.
That project comes a year after the debut of another futuristic space, Cineteca, a two-cinema theater (tickets 3.5 euros, $4.60 at $1.32 to the euro) and film archive devoted to documentaries that was designed by the architects Churtichaga + Quadra-Salcedo.
Mr. Redford said he was regularly frustrated with his former partners' reluctance to provide sufficient investment to acquire a critical mass of worthy films for the Sundance Channel or to finance his dream of a wing of the channel devoted to documentaries.
Before his current factual project, the director of Nixon and JFK had presented America Undercover, a show devoted to exposé documentaries, while the director of Taxi Driver and Goodfellas has regularly contributed small-screen documentaries, usually on the subject of music, including The Blues and Living in the Material World.
