As this year’s guest curator, the keen eye and years of experience of award-winning video-maker and MFA Art Practice and MFA Computer Art faculty member Kathy Brew are on full display at the upcoming Doc Fortnight 2017: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, which runs February 16 – 26. Brew’s career has spanned independent documentaries, Public Television productions, and experimental work; her curating, programming and writing bridges the worlds of media, film and contemporary art. Whether as artist or ambassador, as with her direction of Thundergulch, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s new media arts initiative in the late 1990s, she has been “paying attention”—an understatement on Brew’s part—“to the ongoing development and evolution of media and new media over these past 20 years.”

With more than 30 nonfiction features and shorts from around the globe, the annual Doc Fortnight brings together world-premiers and veteran artists, vérité camerawork and ambitious storytelling experiments. Below, Brew goes into further detail about the concerns of the festival and several of the films being shown.

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