SDFF DOCUMENTARY NEWS

As you no doubt already know, the  U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, suspending legal access to vital reproductive health care for...

9 AUGUST 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Two SDFF 2022 shorts, The Chemical Factory (Drew Leung, 2021) and Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Oslo Vanden, 2021), are...

2 AUGUST 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Corbett Joan O’Toole, an activist and historian featured in Crip Camp (James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham, 2020) was one of...

26 JULY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Nefise Özkal Lorentzen’s Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution and Islam won the award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2022 NYC Independent Film...

19 JULY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. When Claude Got Shot (Brad Lichtenstein, 2022) was nominated for an Emmy in the category of Exceptional Merit In...

OUTwatch continues its Spring/Summer film series on Thursday, July 21 with a screening of experimental history Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt, 2022). The film tells the story of Agnes,...

12 JULY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Five SDFF alumni filmmakers are among the 2022 cohort recently invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture...

5 JULY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, SDFF 2022) won best film in the non-fiction short competition...

28 JUNE 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. For Love and Legacy (AK Sandhu, 2021) was part of Tribeca 2022’s Juneteenth Shorts, Portraits and Performance: Celebrating Black...

21 JUNE 2022 NEW FILMS & PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS A new film by Madeleine Lim, Jewelle: A Just Vision, premiered at the 18th Annual Queer Women of Color...