When the nominees for the 44th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards were announced last week, the list included six films screened at SDFF from 2021-23, and two more projects made by alumni filmmakers. This year’s nominees were selected from 2,300 submissions that made their broadcast or streaming premiere in 2022. In a nomination field […]
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Full Program Unveiled At Aug. 6 Screening During SebArts Open House Event SDFF just released the names of three more titles that will show at its upcoming, free summer screening event, themed The Art of Making An Impact, at the first SebArts Open House from 3-5 p.m. on Aug. 6. Two shorts from SDFF multi-year
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Full List Revealed Before Screening At August 6 SebArts Open House SDFF has released the titles of a handful of films that will be shown as part of its summer screening program, The Art of Making An Impact, which will show for free at the first SebArts Open House from 3-5 p.m. on Aug. 6.
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AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. A trio of SDFF alumni—Ralph Arlyck’s I Like It Here, Magnus Gertten’s Nelly & Nadine, and Luke Lorentzen’s A Still Small Voice—are showing at the 43rd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, which runs through Aug. 6 in the SF Bay Area, and was co-founded by one SDFF alumni
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SDFF alumni filmmaker Davina Pardo and co-director/producer Leah Wolchok have been nominated for two Emmys for their documentary feature Judy Blume Forever (97 mins). Pardo and Wolchok have been nominated in the category of Outstanding Directing for A Documentary/Nonfiction Program, and the film is up for Outstanding Documentary/Non-Fiction Special. The Emmys will be announced during
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AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. Filmmaker Gilda Shepperd won the award for Best Documentary Director at the 15th New York Indie Film Festival for her doc about racism in the criminal justice system, Since I Been Down (105 mins, SDFF 2021). The film examines a morass of intersecting criminal justice and carceral issues by focusing on
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Part of SebArts Inaugural Open House SDFF will be holding a free summer shorts screening, themed The Art of Making An Impact, as part of the first annual SebArts Open House from 3-5 p.m. on Aug. 6. A rare selection of satisfying bits of brilliance, the shorts program will include a dozen films: surprising, touching
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The quandary at the heart of The Recall: Reframed (Rebecca Richman Cohen, 26 mins, SDFF 2023) is at the center of a four-part collaborative series of articles appearing in The Boston Globe, which explore how to increase justice for survivors of gendered violence without contributing to a criminal justice system that disproportionately harms vulnerable communities
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27 JUNE 2023 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. SebDocs 2023 Curtain Raiser doc, Dusty & Stones (Jesse Rudoy, 82 mins), about a Swazi country music duo’s journey to Texas to perform at a battle of the bands, took home the Best Documentary Feature Award at this year’s Atlanta Film Festival. The other jury
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The Apology (Mimi Chakarova), an upcoming doc about the forced relocation of Russell City, a majority Black and Brown community in the 1960s Bay Area, is pivotal to an official apology, which the Alameda Board of Supervisors will present to the community’s residents and their descendants on June 27 at 2 p.m. The apology is
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