Documentaries & Docuseries

Here is how the work lines up. Documentary and docuseries production in New York draws on a research landscape that runs from the New York Public Library Performing Arts collection at Lincoln Center. The Schomburg Center in Harlem to the Museum of the Moving Image archive in Astoria, the Brooklyn Historical Society, Columbia's Oral History project, and the network news libraries at NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox. Our team supports global documentary crews and US-based projects across the city — DOC NYC is the largest documentary festival in the country.

Here is the breakdown. The production base here moves between Killer Films, A24's nonfiction strand, the HBO Documentary Films team at Hudson Yards, Showtime Documentary Films, Netflix NY originals, Amazon Studios and Apple TV+ at their New York offices. Crews scale from a verite shooter following a single subject through the Bronx to full ENG units staging interviews at the UN headquarters, City Hall, the New York Stock Exchange, or rooftop locations across Manhattan and Long Island City.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Subject access drives the work. Projects on Wall Street, criminal justice, hip-hop history, the post-9/11 city, immigration through Ellis Island and JFK, the art world, or modern politics need trust-building that starts months before the camera arrives — our fixers handle community liaisons in Harlem, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, broker interviews with academics at Columbia, NYU, the New School, CUNY and Fordham, and arrange access with institutions including the FDNY, NYPD, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney, and the Federal Reserve.

Here is how the picture comes together. Production runs through the NYS Film Tax Credit with the 30 percent base plus 10 percent NYC uplift on qualifying spend, NYC MOME Made in NY permits, and IATSE Local 600 cinematographers East for camera crews. Post planning handles archive clearance with NBCUniversal Archives, ABC News VideoSource and Getty, with festival finishing for Tribeca, DOC NYC, NewFest and the global circuit.