SDFF DOCUMENTARY NEWS

Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is moving to June.  In light of ever changing COVID-19 conditions, and the impact on our industry, audience and bottom line...

The fight to halt a mining project in the Alaskan Tundra, which would destroy the largest existing natural sockeye salmon habitat, has likely come to...

Features Four Docs on the History and Ongoing Struggle for LGBTQIA Civil Rights, Streams Oct. 16-25, 2020 SDFF partner fest, OUTwatch calls attention to the...

Tuesday night at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, SDFF 2019 Official Selection, The Silence of Others, won two Emmys. Filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert...

While SDFF 2020 Official Selection, Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World (Hans Pool, 2018) won an Emmy in 2019, it’s now up for a second...

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...

A mode of representation defined by its relationship to reality, documentary has a troubled history in connection with race and racism. It is a genre...

See filmmakers’ acceptance speeches: The Whale by Iza Pajak Night Cleaners by Hanna Nordenswan Midnight Family by Luke Lorentzen Full List of SDFF 2020 Selections

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....

Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 2020 scheduled for 26- 29 March is postponed.  We are tremendously sad and disappointed to make this announcement. We recognize that...