DOC NYC Announces 2024 Jury and Audience Awards

The end of the year is almost upon us, and that means that DOC NYC has announced the winners of this year’s Jury and Audience Awards. In addition to sharing which productions deserved to be recognized in this year’s edition of the festival, DOC NYC has also announced that next year’s edition of the event will take place November 12 – 30, 2025. It won’t be long before fans and filmmakers alike reunite once again to enjoy the best of what the genre has to offer.

Online screenings for some of the titles that were featured in this year’s DOC NYC will continue to take place until December 1. The winners of the festival will also be available for streaming. When it comes to the international competition award, Yalla Parkour won the prize. Stone Mountain was victorious in the U.S. Competition Prize. While this year’s participants displayed an incredible amount of talent, only one title could take the award home for each category.

This year’s Metropolis Award was given to Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse. The title dives deep into the life of the artist, who was crucial in the history of dark and complex themes in comics. The Kaleidoscope Grand Jury Prize was awarded to The Falling Sky. The project is focused on iconic shaman Davi Kopenawa and the Yanomami community of Watoriki in the Brazilian rainforest. With this edition of DOC NYC in the books, the world is getting ready for what next year’s documentaries will bring to the table.

You can check out the entire list of winners below:

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:

Grand Jury Prize: Yalla Parkour, directed by Areeb Zuaiter, produced by Basel
Mawlawi. (World Premiere)

Special Mention: Sudan, Remember Us, directed by Hind Meddeb, produced by Abel
Nahmias, Michel Zana and Taoufik Guiga. (U.S. Premiere)

U.S. COMPETITION:

Grand Jury Prize: Stone Mountain, directed by Daniel Kaufman, produced by
Krista Worby and Daniel Kaufman. (U.S. Premiere)

Special Mention: Black Snow, directed by Alina Simone, produced by Kirstine Barfod.
(North American Premiere)

METROPOLIS COMPETITION

Grand Jury Prize: Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse, directed by Molly Bernstein,
Philip Dolin; produced by Alicia Sams, Sam Jinishian. (World Premiere)

Special Mention: Conbody vs. Everybody (Episodes 1 & 2), directed by Debra
Granik, produced by Anne Rosellini, Joslyn Barnes. (NYC Premiere)

KALEIDOSCOPE COMPETITION:

Grand Jury Prize: The Falling Sky, directed by Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da
Cunhap; produced by Donatella Palermo, Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha.
(NYC Premiere)

Special Mention: G – 21 Scenes from Gottsunda, directed by Loran Batti, produced
by Göran Hugo Olsson, Melissa Lindgren. (North American Premiere)

AUDIENCE AWARD:

Audience Award Winner: Slumlord Millionaire, directed by Steph Ching, Ellen
Martinez, produced by Ellen Martinez, Steph Ching, Nicole Tsien. (World Premiere)

SHORT FILM AWARDS

Grand Jury Prize: “Qotzuñi: People of the Lake”, directed/produced by Gastón
Zilberman and Michael Salama. (North American Premiere)

Special Mention: “51st State”, directed/produced by Hannah Rosenzweig, produced
by Liat Z. Rubin, Ray Whitehouse. (NYC Premiere)

Special Mention: “Death by Numbers”, directed by Kim A. Snyder, produced by
Janique L. Robillard, Kim A. Snyder, Maria Cuomo Cole. (NYC Premiere)

DOC NYC U COMPETITION:

DOC NYC U Award: “Find Me”, directed/produced by Hsi Cheng. (School of Visual
Arts)