It's great fun if you know fellow attendees, just like every other festival, so forgive me if the dispatches don't reflect the atmosphere of
NYFF public screenings in all their harried and formal glory.
Its existence announced a mere month before its world premiere, the film's first
public NYFF screening — which was held simultaneously with its first press
screening — was attended by a number of journalists who were there not to evaluate the quality of Poitras» work, but to report the revelations contained in its final scene.