DOCUMENTARY FUNDING

8 FEBRUARY 2022 NEW FILMS & PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS Marian Anderson: The Whole World In Her Hands premieres tonight (2/8) on PBS American. The film, about the internationally acclaimed singer, who helped lay groundwork for Civil Rights, is being released to help kick off Black History Month. The film, by director Rita Coburn Whack (Maya

1 FEBRUARY 2022 DOCS IN THE NEWS Investigative journalism outlet Bellingcat made its second major documentary appearance in the upcoming film Navalny (Daniel Roher, 2022), which went home with both the Audience and Festival Favorite awards at Sundance. The film is a “documentary thriller” about the Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, who was poisoned with novichok during a 2020

18 JANUARY 2022 DOCS IN THE NEWS An IndieWire column hit close to home for SDFF this week, pointing to the impact the pandemic has had on local indie film festivals, elaborating on their key role in determining the shape of future cinema, and urging cinephiles’ support to insure their future. Columnist Eric Kohn argues

11 JANUARY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS Snowy (Kaitlyn Schwalje & Alex Wolf Lewis, 2021), a short about a tiny turtle’s happiness, is one of five films to make TIME magazine’s list of the year’s best short docs. The magazine is also streaming the short, an SDFF 2021 selection, and also features a substantial interview with the filmmakers. Snowy is about

4 JANUARY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS Waad al-Kateab (For Sama w/ Edward Watts, 2019) was recently announced as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Gold Fellowship for Women’s international recipient. The year-long, £20,000 fellowship is intended to aid in global talent development and inclusion. In addition, Al-Kateab is on-location in Tokyo filming a doc about

22 DECEMBER 2021 NEW FILMS + PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS When it premieres at Sundance 2022, ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught) (Brit Hensel with Keli Gonzales, 2021) will be the festival’s first official selection directed by a female citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Filmed on the Qualla Boundary and Cherokee Nation, ᎤᏕᏲᏅ explores expressions of reciprocity in the Cherokee world