NYFF 2015: Kitty Genovese Documentary The Witness

The Witness screens at 6pm on Tuesday, October 6, and at 8pm on Wednesday, October 7 as part of the documentary spotlight within the 53rd New York Film Festival. The film is currently without US distribution.
Though James Solomon gets the directing and producing credit in The Witness, the real guiding light of this documentary is Bill Genovese, brother of Kitty Genovese, whose brutal murder outside her Kew Gardens apartment in 1964 has become synonymous in many people’s minds with bystand