Multi-year SDFF alumni Ben Proudfoot’s Queen Of Basketball (U.S., 22 mins) won Best Short at the 2021 Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards on Sunday. The film, one in Proudfoot’s ongoing Almost Famous collaboration with New York Times Op-Docs, is about Lucy Harris, arguably the greatest living women’s basketball player, who has won three national trophies, played in the ’76 Olympics and was […]
Nominations for this 2021 Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards were announced last week, and SDFF multi-year alumni filmmaker Ben Proudfoot was among the nominees. Proudfoot’s Queen Of Basketball (U.S., 22 mins) is part of his ongoing Almost Famous series of New York Times Op-Docs about female basketball player Lusia Harris, who played in the ’76 Olympics and was drafted to
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Best Documentary winner ADVOCATE (Philippe Bellaiche + Rachel Leah Jones, 2019) A portrait of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli human rights lawyer who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years. Outstanding Social Issue Documentary THE RESCUE LIST (Alyssa Fedele + Zachary Fink, 2018) Social workers help two children rescued from childhood enslavement on Ghana’s Lake
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Pol. + Gov & Best Doc Advocate (Philippe Bellaiche + Rachel Leah Jones, 2019) A portrait of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli human rights lawyer who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years. Best Social Issue Doc The Rescue List (Alyssa Fedele + Zachary Fink, 2018) Social workers help two children rescued from childhood enslavement
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A Concerto is a Conversation,SDFF alum Ben Proudfoot’s much-celebrated collaboration with film composer and co-Director Kris Bowers and The New York Times OpDocs is nominated for Best Documentary Short. Read Full Story l Visit Breakwater Studio Films l Watch The Film The final film in SDFF Alum Skye Fitzgerald’s “Humanitarian Cinema Trilogy,” the short observational doc, Hunger Ward: The Last Hope
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Tuesday night at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, SDFF 2019 Official Selection, The Silence of Others, won two Emmys. Filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar garnered one Emmy for Best Documentary and a second for Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary. The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship
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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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