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Clay Tweel, Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani, Dawn Porter, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg with Thom Powers Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

In 2013, Sigourney Weaver, Chuck Close, Iman, Joel Ehrenkranz, James Franco, Agnes Gund, and Uma Thurman hosted a screening of Simon Trevor's White Gold, narrated by Hillary Clinton, produced by Arne Glimcher, on the organised poaching of elephant tusks, at the Museum of Modern Art with Albert Maysles, Barbara Kopple, Meredith Vieira, Christie Brinkley, and #Horror's Tara Subkoff in support.

The Ivory Game cinematographer/co-director Richard Ladkani Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

In 2014, Kathryn Bigelow’s Last Days (Annapurna Pictures) screened at the New York Film Festival before The Crisis In Elephant Poaching panel discussion.

Following the Doc NYC Unfolding Stories panel with the directors of Gleason, Trapped, Weiner, and The Ivory Game (Leonardo DiCaprio executive producer), moderated by Thom Powers, I spoke with Richard Ladkani at the Vulcan Productions reception - two...

Tilda Swinton flawlessly communicates Gertrude Bell in Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl's astute Letters From Baghdad Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life with Lynch's memories including his Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story production designer Jack Fisk; Claire Simon's Le Concours (The Graduation) on the admission process to enter La Fémis; Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game which takes off from Simon Trevor's wake-up call White Gold; Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl's Letters From Baghdad, executive produced by Martin Scorsese's favourite editor Thelma Schoonmaker with Tilda Swinton are four more highlights of this year's Doc NYC.

David Lynch: The Art Life

David Lynch: The Art Life

Although the world of his childhood was no larger than two blocks, it contained it all. There is the traumatic, "otherworldly" encounter with...

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict at the Guggenheim Museum Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

On a beautiful autumn Sunday evening in New York, Leelee Sobieski, Ann Tenenbaum, Agnes Gund, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Debra Black, Sandy Brant, Amalia Dayan, Nathalie de Gunzburg, Chrissie Erpf, Lise Evans, Maja Hoffmann, Julia Koch, Marie-Josée Kravis and Linda Macklowe hosted an advance screening at the Guggenheim Museum for Lisa Immordino Vreeland's Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict.

Lisa Immordino Vreeland introducing Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Spotted inside the Peter B. Lewis Theater were Arne Glimcher of Pace, producer of Simon Trevor's campaign against ivory poaching in White Gold, Hamish Bowles, International editor-at-large for American Vogue, Marina Abramovic, and fashion photographers Vinoodh Matadin and Inez van Lamsweerde. Lisa Immordino Vreeland thanked all involved in the making of the film, including producers Stanley Buchthal, David Koh, Dan Braun, Josh Braun and Peggy Guggenheim biographer Jacqueline B. Weld.

Albert Maysles at the premiere of Simon Trevor's White Gold Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

On October 4, the morning before the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's Bridge Of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Mark Rylance, Billy Magnussen and Eve Hewson (Bono and Ali's daughter), during the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Maysles family will host a tribute to Albert Maysles.

Filmmakers Morgan Neville, Fabien Constant, Varon Bonicos and Guy Maddin, together with Gay Talese and Frédéric Boyer, sent a tribute when they heard the news about Albert's passing on March 5.

Iris Apfel at The Paris Theatre Iris premiere on Albert Maysles: "Oh, he was the greatest. I'm very lucky, very lucky." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The event at Alice Tully Hall will include a selection of clips from the career of the master documentarian and his brother David. In 2014, the...

Albert Maysles at Simon Trevor's White Gold premiere at MoMA Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Documentary filmmakers Morgan Neville (2014 Oscar winner for 20 Feet From Stardom), Fabien Constant (Mademoiselle C), Varon Bonicos (A Man's Story) and Keyhole director Guy Maddin share their thoughts on the passing of the great documentarian Albert Maysles at the age of 88, Thursday, March 5, in New York City.

Author and journalist Gay Talese on an American Assignment for the New York Times in Selma, Alabama, sent a note, upon hearing the news, from the place where Gay had covered the civil rights march and "Bloody Sunday" 50 years ago.

Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the subject of his film Iris

Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer wrote "…this is very sad to lose a master of Cinema. We are playing his last film in the Tribeca [World Documentary] Competition,..." In Transit, co-directed by Maysles with Nelson Walker, Lynn True, David Usui,...

Endangered African Elephants in Simon Trevor's White Gold at Tsavo National Park: "Since 1970, I've seen 40,000 elephants killed."

White Gold, Sydney's Pollack's Out Of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, and Michael Apted's Gorillas In The Mist starring Sigourney Weaver have one man in common: Simon Trevor, the director of White Gold. His documentary on the organised poaching of elephant tusks, narrated by former Us Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, puts an end to fantasies of glamour and harmless luxury based on ignorance and lies.

Producer Arne Glimcher with White Gold director Simon Trevor on the crisis in elephant poaching: "This time around it's much more serious because there's less elephants and more demand." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The New York Film Festival now takes on the challenge of raising awareness with their newly announced panel The Crisis In Elephant Poaching. The discussion will be moderated by Last Days...

African Elephants in White Gold: "This time around it's much more serious because there's less elephants and more demand."

White Gold, Sydney's Pollack's Out Of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, along with Michael Apted's Gorillas In The Mist starring Sigourney Weaver have one man in common, Simon Trevor, the director of White Gold.

On the red carpet at MoMA for the film's premiere he told me - "We couldn't sit by and watch all those elephants being killed without trying to make everybody aware of this."

Sigourney Weaver, Albert Maysles, Barbara Kopple, Meredith Vieira, Iman, Christie Brinkley, Stacy Bendet, Hanneli Mustaparta, Tara Subkoff, Kyleigh Kuhn, Mia Moretti with Cleo Wade, Cynthia Rowley, David Schwimmer with Zoe Buckman, among others, walked the red carpet with Chuck Close and producer Arne Glimcher in support of the cause.

Simon Trevor on the red carpet at MoMA: "We couldn't sit by...

Nzioki wa Makau, Simon Trevor, Arne Glimcher and Ian Saunders talk about White Gold at MoMA Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Christie Brinkley and Sigourney Weaver bring awareness Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze At the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Sigourney Weaver introduced a post-screening discussion of White Gold between director Simon Trevor, producer Arne Glimcher, Tsavo Trust co-founder Ian Saunders, and the Honorable Justice of the High Court of Kenya Nzioki wa Makau on the impact poaching ivory has on the African elephant population and humanity as a whole.

Two days later, on November 14, 2013, a six-ton stockpile of seized ivory was crushed by the Us Fish and Wildlife Service in an effort to bring forth a worldwide trade ban in ivory.

White Gold is the first film produced by the African Environmental Film Foundation for international distribution. Jackie Chan replaces Hillary Rodham Clinton as the narrator for the Mandarin-speaking Chinese audiences.

White Gold producer Arne Glimcher and director Simon Trevor Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Documentarian Albert Maysles in support of White Gold Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Sigourney Weaver, Chuck Close, Iman, Joel Ehrenkranz, James Franco, Agnes Gund, and Uma Thurman hosted an advance screening of Simon Trevor's forceful documentary White Gold on the organised poaching of elephant tusks, narrated by former Us Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Museum of Modern Art on the evening of Wednesday, November 12. Albert Maysles, Barbara Kopple, Meredith Vieira, Christie Brinkley, Stacy Bendet, Hanneli Mustaparta, Tara Subkoff, Kyleigh Kuhn, Mia Moretti, Cynthia Rowley, David Schwimmer with Zoe Buckman, among others, walked the red carpet in support of the cause.

Arne Glimcher, founder of Pace gallery and the producer of White Gold, Simon Trevor and Sigourney Weaver spoke with me before the screening on the importance a film can make by bringing awareness for the protection of wildlife.