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2025 Festival
September 26-28
Our 21st year
Newburyport
Documentary
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NBPT DOCU FEST
Save the Date
Preview Event – Sept. 4th Film Festival - Sept. 26-28th
We are the Filmmakers' Film Festival
2025 Newburyport Documentary Film Festival Preview Event is coming!
Save the date September 4
Join us for a special preview of this year's festival film trailers at the Firehouse Center of the Arts Thursday, September 4. This sneak peek will help you choose your must-see films. Pre Show reception kicks off the event starting at 6 pm.
Tickets will be available soon.
The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival September 26-28
The 2025 filmmakers' festival showcases compelling documentaries for Greater Newburyport’s vibrant community!
Experience thought-provoking films that spark conversations on social issues, history, and life’s joys.
Engage in discussions with filmmakers and experts during this exciting weekend filled with impactful stories from around the globe!
Tickets will be available soon.
Newsletter Update
THE WATCH CLUB
THE WATCH CLUB: SLICE OF LIFE: THE AMERICAN DREAM. IN FORMER PIZZA HUTS.
Whatever you think of their pizza, there’s no denying that the Pizza Hut chain has put some notable architecture into the world. The mid-century design, the low-slung red roof: You know one when you see it. Many of those buildings have been decommissioned – and repurposed by all kinds of businesses, from pot shops and barbecue joints to bars and churches. The Australia-born, Brooklyn based filmmaking duo of Rose Tucker and Matthew Salleh traveled across their adopted country to explore this whimsical phenomenon for their new film SLICE OF LIFE: THE AMERICAN DREAM. IN FORMER PIZZA HUTS.
Watch SLICE OF LIFE: THE AMERICAN DREAM. IN FORMER PIZZA HUTS. Available 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.
@porcelainwarfilm
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.
If you would like to become a sponsor, please visit our Sponsors page