After visiting the Navajo nation earlier this month, filmmaker Karney Hatch (Overdrawn, Plant This Movie!) was overcome by the staggering number of cases and the scale of the loss facing the community and decided to volunteer in hopes of helping the Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund raise money by shooting some footage for […]
SDFF 2019 Official Selection, America ReFramed: DEEJ, is streaming for free this month and will be rebroadcast on World TV (KQED) on July 14 at 8 p.m. as part of a month-long commemoration and celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act and the #MoveToInclude initiative. The film is an SDFF 2019
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We’d like to congratulate That’s My Jazz for their Webby win in editing! That’s My Jazz is an SDFF 2020 Official Selection and one of the more recent projects to come out of Breakwater Studios, which is also responsible for Life’s Work, honored by SDFF in 2017. Breakwater’s oeuvre of documentary shorts is well worth
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SDFF co-Director Jean McGlothlin interviews Eye of the Pangolin Director Bruce Young about raising awareness about this curious, rare animal.
DIRECTOR BRUCE YOUNG,
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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.
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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 past month. Bellingcat the film is tells the story of the eponymous online investigative collective. Collective leader Eliot Higgins was interviewed on 60 Minutes on July 12 to talk about an investigation he had spearheaded into the
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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 decades. Despite animating political discourse, the reality of this crisis was largely invisible for those unaffected by it, pre-Coronavirus. This was the context in which Bo Kovitz made her documentary The
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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 none of us could have foreseen as Sonoma County introduced measures to severely restrict public gatherings. Nor could we have imagined the ensuing pandemic that has torn through nearly every
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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.
YANG SUN + S. LEO CHIANG,
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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
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