The city that never sleeps finally had to — and woke up screaming.
One neighborhood in New York City, March 2020: the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, the federal government is clueless, and life seems increasingly surreal. A month later, the city has become an epicenter of the pandemic as the death rate spirals upwards. Then the racial justice protests erupt... Strange Days Diary NYC is an intimate account of living through a disruptive, frightening, yet inspiring time.
Direction
Winestine's first-person immediacy — no distance, no safety.
Editing
Collapsing pandemic and protest into one breathless timeline.
Director
Zachary Winestine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely within one neighborhood, it captures NYC's paradox: isolation in density, solidarity in lockdown.
Winestine began filming before 'pandemic documentary' was a genre; this avoids the retrospective polish that later COVID films couldn't escape.
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