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Posters from SDFF alumni who are nominated for the 44th News & Documentary Emmys, including six films that showed at SDFF from 2021-2023: Let Me Be Me, MINK!, Body Parts, Wuhan Wuhan, Sapelo, and Nuisance Bear; and two new projects from filmmakers who showed at SDFF festivals in the past: Flight/Risk and Meltdown: Three Mile Island.

Congrats To SDFF Alumni On News & Documentary Emmy Noms

bysebastopolfilm
8 months ago

When the nominees for the 44th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards were announced last week, the list included six films screened at SDFF from...

New Titles Added To SDFF Summer Shorts Program

bysebastopolfilm
9 months ago

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...

SDFF Announces Six Titles Appearing As Part Of Summer Shorts Program

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9 months ago

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...

Graphic Header for Bi-Weekly News Update for July 13, 2023. Includes posters for the following films featured in the update: Nelly & Nadine, At Your Cervix, Everything Wrong And Nowhere To Go, Big Water Summer, A Boy Called Piano. #SebDocsNews, #SDFFAlumni, #SDFFPartners

SDFF NEWS: ALUMNI UPDATES, NEW FILMS, FESTIVALS – 26 JULY 2023

bysebastopolfilm
9 months ago

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...

Congrats To SDFF Alumni Filmmaker Davina Pardo On Her Emmy Noms!

bysebastopolfilm
9 months ago

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...

Graphic Header for Bi-Weekly News Update for July 13, 2023. Includes posters for the following films featured in the update: Since I Been Down, Handwritten, Cara Romero: Following The Light, The Recall: Reframed, More Than I Want To Remember.

SDFF NEWS: ALUMNI UPDATES, NEW FILMS, FESTS, INDUSTRY – 12 JULY 2023

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9 months ago

AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. Filmmaker Gilda Shepperd won the award for Best Documentary Director at the 15th New York Indie Film Festival...

SDFF Summer Shorts and Volunteer Appreciation Event – Aug. 6!

bysebastopolfilm
9 months ago

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 Recall: Reframed key art (abstract graphic of chart). The film's central question: how to increase justice for sexual violence survivors without contributing to a racist criminal justice system, is at the heart of a 4-part collaborative journalistic series im the Boston Globe.

Central Question of doc The Recall: Reframed Explored in Four-Part Collaborative Series

bysebastopolfilm
10 months ago

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...

Graphic Header for Bi-Weekly News Update for June 27, 2023. Includes posters for the following films featured in the update: Dusty & Stones, More Than I Want To Remember, Move When The Spirit Says Move, Art & Pepe, Body Parts

SDFF NEWS: ALUMNI UPDATES, NEW FILMS, FESTS, INDUSTRY – 27 JULY 2023

bysebastopolfilm
10 months ago

27 JUNE 2023 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. SebDocs 2023 Curtain Raiser doc, Dusty & Stones (Jesse Rudoy, 82 mins), about a Swazi...

Mimi Chakarova's new feature, The Apology, examines racist 60s Era Bay Area relocation policy & reparations. The doc has spurred the Alameda Board of Supervisors to pass an official apology, which recognizes their role in the racist destruction of this community.

New Doc on Racist Forced Relocation In Bay Area Helps Spur Action & Official Apology

bysebastopolfilm
10 months ago

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,...