SDFF DOCUMENTARY NEWS

Bay Area filmmaker Dan Goldes, whose first feature, 5 Blocks, is an official SDFF 2020 selection, will be holding a Q&A on his 2018 short...

While SDFF 2020 may have been postponed, our commitment to encouraging nuanced analyses and public discussion of the current media environment and the relationship between...

SDFF 2020 programmers selected Brian Gersten’s The Great Toilet Paper Scare in the Fall, for its effective, humorous take on an early iteration of “fake news.” The film’s...

Check out the wonderful interview of  Raul Gallyot, on of KWMR-FM, with Mitchie Takeuchi, producer and director of The Vow of Hiroshima.  The interview aired...

A December 23 story in The Washington Post echoes details of SDFF 2019’s Letter from Masanjia. The Post’s “A Girl Said She Found a Plea for...

SDFF 2019 alum and Alpha Mare co-director Mimi Wilcox received Kartemquin’s Emerging Storyteller Fund grant for The Sebastopol Siege. Wilcox pitched the film at SDFF’s 2019 Peer Pitch. Kartemquin selects grantees that follow...

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Lowell Bergman, who gave a talk on investigative journalism to accompany SDFF 2019’s screening of Factory of Lies (Jakob Gottschau, 2018), will give a...

Air Land Sea: A Rialto Cinemas & SDFF co-production Festival Pass $65 – 10 admissions   General Admission $10 Ay Mariposa Fri, Sept. 13 at...

Filmmaker Lauren Schwartzman, whose short Dust Rising was not only featured in SDFF 2018, but is also a Best of the Fest selection, is collaborating with...

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (Arwen Curry, 2018) will air on PBS American Masters/KQED August 2, 2019 at 9 p.m. SDFF 2019 favorite, Worlds of Ursula...