2020 FILMMAKER INTERVIEWS + DISCUSSIONS

SDFF co-Director Jean McGlothlin interviews Eye of the Pangolin Director Bruce Young about raising awareness about this curious, rare animal.

The Wild director Mark Titus sat down with SDFF co-Director Jean McGlothlin to talk about his film and the battle to save Bristol Bay from mining and environmental decimation.

As we sat down for a Q&A with director Mark Titus in late July 2020 to discuss The Wild, the threats to Bristol Bay’s environment, bio-diversity...

SDFF’s 2020 selection, Bellingcat: Truth In A Post-Truth World (Hans Pool, 2019) and some of the journalists affiliated with it have been making the news over the...

COVID-19 has laid bare the severity of a perpetually escalating health care crisis that had been quietly impacting daily life for millions of Americans for...

The night in March when we postponed SDFF 2020 is now far behind us.  It was just days before Opening Night.  A set of circumstances...

The directors of SDFF 2020's Opening Night film, Our Time Machine, S. Leo Chiang and Yang Sun talk art, memory, film and Maleonn and Ma Ke, the brilliant artist and his father, a Peking Opera director, at the center of their film.

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...

Filmmaker Iza Pająk accepts the SDFF 2020 Jury Award for Best Mini-Doc for The Whale.

Filmmaker Hannah Nordenswan accepts the SDFF 2020 Jury Award for Best Short for Night Cleaners.