SHORTS WEATHER! WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED.
Four character-driven documentaries to keep you company while you escape the summer sizzle…
SHORTS WEATHER! WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED.
Four character-driven documentaries to keep you company while you escape the summer sizzle…
SHORTS WEATHER! WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED.
Four character-driven documentaries to keep you company while you escape the summer sizzle…
See
Filmmaker Interview
Here
SHORTS WEATHER! WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED.
Four character-driven documentaries to keep you company while you escape the summer sizzle…
SHORTS WEATHER! WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED.
Four character-driven documentaries to keep you company while you escape the summer sizzle…
SHORTS WEATHER! WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED.
Four character-driven documentaries to keep you company while you escape the summer sizzle…
SHORTS WEATHER! WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED.
Four character-driven documentaries to keep you company while you escape the summer sizzle…
See
Filmmaker Interview
Here
SHORTS WEATHER! WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED.
Four character-driven documentaries to keep you company while you escape the summer sizzle…
FINAL WEEKEND TO CATCH THESE SHORTS!
SDFF 2020 Filmmaker Speaks Out On Health Care Desert, How Hospital Closures Have Impacted COVID
As COVID has torn through the country over the past several months, it has refocused attention on long-standing issues in American healthcare that have put low-income folks and people of color at much greater risk of both contracting and dying from the disease. SDFF 2020 selection The Desert (Bo Kovitz, 2019) documents the closure of an East Bay hospital that left almost 250,000, mostly low-income, people in the Bay Area over a 30 minutes away from the nearest hospital. Since COVID began spiking in California, Kovitz has spoken out eloquently on “health care deserts.” See her exclusive interview with SDFF co-Director Jean McGlothlin here.
Bellingcat up for Emmy in innovation in Docs and News.
Bellingcat, the independent, international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists, which was the topic of SDFF 2020 Official Selection, Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World (Hans Pool, 2018) is up for an Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches: Current News. The online news source was nominated, along with collaborator Newsy, for this News and Documentary Award for a series of open-source investigations by the two entities over the past year.
Giant Pangolin “Ghost” Joins Effort to Save World’s Most Trafficked Mammal, Filmmaker Speaks Out on Fight
Raising awareness to the the Pangolin and efforts being made to preserve this curious, rare animal were at the heart of Eye of the Pangolin, which is also a part of SDFF’s Environmental Activism Film Program. This unique species is finally getting some much-needed attention with the film’s recent release, and synchronously, a new research program in Gabon to literally keep the little animals on the radar, in hopes of slaking trafficking. Take a look at SDFF co-Director Jean McGlothlin’s interview with Eye of the Pangolin Director Bruce Young.
Bristol Bay Gets Surprising Ally in Efforts to Thwart Pebble Mine on site of World’s Largest Salmon Run
Stay up on the Issue with The Wild Director Mark Titus, Exclusive Interview Below!
As we sat down for our Q&A director Mark Titus in late July 2020 to discuss The Wild, threats to Bristol Bay’s environment, bio-diversity and culture, which his film depicts as “a race against time,” appeared to be accelerating as EPA safeguards have been dismantled by the current administration. Those safeguards have been protecting Bristol Bay, a “wild place that is the last of its kind on earth,” the keystone species of salmon that run in the area, and the people who have made their life in the area, including commercial, sustainable fishers and regional tribes. Efforts to preserve the bay found an unlikely ally in Donald Trump Junior during our Environmental Activism film program…
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 2020 To Finish the Year Online
SDFF 2021 Set for April 22-25,
First Submission Deadline
Sept 12!
Claudia Escobar, Dear Homeland
Thanks to the support of Volunteers, Filmmakers, Partners, Donors and Patrons…
SDFF has Attained Coveted Recognition as Academy Award® Qualifying Festival
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is proud to announce that it has been approved by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an Academy Qualifying Festival for the Documentary Short Subject category.
Currently in its 13th year, the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival’s mission to bring the best in documentary film to Sonoma County has just been enhanced by its inclusion as an Academy Award® qualifying festival. Of more than 8,000 film festivals currently listed on FilmFreeway’s entry portal, only 158 of those festivals have Academy Award® qualifying status. Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is honored to be in their company.
Recipients of the SDFF Jury Award for Short Subject and Jury Award for Mini-Doc are now eligible for consideration in the Documentary Short Subject category of the Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.
Jury Awards for SDFF 2020 were scheduled to be announced on March 25 at Opening Night ceremonies. With the advent of the pandemic, those ceremonies were postponed. The award winners have been notified. It is with great pride that we list the winners below, noting that both the Short Subject and the Mini-Doc are eligible for consideration in the 93rd Academy Awards® Short Subject Category.
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