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2025 Festival
September 26-28
Our 21st year
Newburyport
Documentary
Film
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THE WATCH CLUB
THE WATCH CLUB: BILLY JOEL: AND SO IT GOES
“I didn’t know I needed the Billy Joel documentary,” wrote NPR pop culture correspondent Linda Holmes recently. A lot of folks have been saying that since the recent launch of HBO’s engrossing new two-part doc on the longtime hitmaker from Long Island.
The popular singer, sometimes maligned but always at the top of the karaoke queues, helps the filmmakers Susan Lacy (creator of PBS’s American Masters series) and Jessica Levin (Emmy and Peabody award winner who co-produced THE JANES in 2022) deliver a full portrait of a very full life: 33 Top 40 hits, 23 Grammy nominations, four wives, several serious hospitalizations, and much more.
Hear how the filmmakers got the “Piano Man” to agree to such candid conversations.
Watch BILLY JOEL: AND SO IT GOES on HBO Max.
Watch the interview in our archive.
Newsletter Update
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
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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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