A December 23 story in The Washington Post echoes details of SDFF 2019’s Letter from Masanjia. The Post’s “A Girl Said She Found a Plea for Help in Her Christmas Card. The Seller is Investigating,” recounts a story that will be eerily familiar to anyone who saw last year’s entry, Letter from Masanjia. In this new story, […]
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SDFF 2019 alum and Alpha Mare co-director Mimi Wilcox received Kartemquin’s Emerging Storyteller Fund grant for The Sebastopol Siege. Wilcox pitched the film at SDFF’s 2019 Peer Pitch. Kartemquin selects grantees that follow it’s mission of using documentary “to deepen our understanding of society through everyday human drama,” according to program director Jolene Pinder. Kartemquin is a collaborative community that empowers documentarians who
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Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Lowell Bergman, who gave a talk on investigative journalism to accompany SDFF 2019’s screening of Factory of Lies (Jakob Gottschau, 2018), will give a talk and Q&A session this Weds., Sept. 18 at 8 p.m. at The Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg. His appearance is being sponsored by Sonoma West Publishers (SWP) and
Air Land Sea: A Rialto Cinemas & SDFF co-production Festival Pass $65 – 10 admissions General Admission $10 Ay Mariposa Fri, Sept. 13 at 5 p.m. • Sun, Sept. 15 at 12 p.m. Mon, Sept. 16 at 3 p.m. • Wed, Sept. 18 at 1 p.m. Backyard Wilderness 3D Sat, Sept. 14 at 12
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Filmmaker Lauren Schwartzman, whose short Dust Rising was not only featured in SDFF 2018, but is also a Best of the Fest selection, is collaborating with long-time SDFF Alum Jim LeBrecht on the upcoming documentary Crip Camp. one of the first projects being made by Michelle and Barack Obama’s Netflix-based production company, Higher Ground. A 35-year veteran
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