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2025 Festival
September 26-28
Our 21st year
Newburyport
Documentary
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Special Screening: THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT
Special Screening
The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival and the Greater Newburyport Green Expo 2025 present a special screening of THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT on Sunday, May 18th at 6:00 PM at the Firehouse Center for the Arts.
Directed by Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos, and Jon Shenk, the film examines a crucial missed opportunity during the George H.W. Bush administration to address global warming, revealing the historical forces that continue to shape our climate challenges. Understanding this pivotal moment provides valuable context for the importance of community-led sustainability efforts like the Green Expo.
This screening is presented by the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival and the City of Newburyport Resiliency Committee, with support from the Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program.
THE WATCH CLUB April 21, 2025
THE WATCH CLUB: ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE
As a kid, Art Spiegelman worshiped Superman and Mad Magazine. “Everything I know, I learned from comic books,” says the illustrator. Famously, he won a Pulitzer Prize for “Maus,” his groundbreaking graphic novel about the Holocaust.
In ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE, filmmakers Molly Bernstein and Philip Donlin tell the artist’s life story, from his key role in elevation graphic novels to an art form status to his lifelong defense of free speech.
Watch ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE, which is now streaming on the PBS website. Then make plans to join us in THE WATCH CLUB for a live Q&A with co-director Molly Bernstein at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 21. Or watch the interview anytime here.
Congratulations to the Oscar nominees in the Best Documentary Feature Film category!
Watch our interviews with the filmmakers of SUGARCANE and PORCELAIN WAR
What is THE WATCH CLUB?
Keep the conversation going throughout the year in THE WATCH CLUB. It's like a book club, but for documentaries. Each month we'll recommend a new documentary to stream, then invite you to join us on YouTube and Facebook for a live online Q&A with the filmmaker.
Under missile strikes and roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become.
Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.
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PORCELAIN WAR - Filmmaker Interview
Our 2024 Festival Winners
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Young Emerging Filmmakers: THE PAHLEVAN ON 5TH AVE
Our Sponsors
The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival is supported in part by grants from the local cultural councils of the surrounding towns as well as our local sponsors.
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