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SDFF NEWS BITS: ALUMNI UPDATES, FESTS, HONORS, NEW DOCS, INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS

4 OCTOBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS SDFF 2022 selections, Listen To The Beat Of Our Images (Audrey Jean-Baptiste and Maxime Jean-Baptiste, 2020), Blurring The Color Line (Crystal Lee Kwok, SDFF 2022), For Love and Legacy (AK Sandhu, 2021), and The Art Of Making It (Kelcey Edwards, 2022) are among the official selections of the […]

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27 SEPTEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Art Of Un-War (2021) will have its European Premiere at the historic Teartro di San Carlo in Naples on Oct. 13, as part of Artecinema, the international contemporary art festival, currently in its 27th year. Filmmaker Maria Niro in toe for the event. Artecinema celebrates films on contemporary art. The

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Fall 2022 Doc Night Screening – #KidsOnTech – Oct. 10

SDFF, Trim Tab Media and Rialto Cinemas® Fall Doc Night film series continues Oct. 10 with a screening of  #KidsOnTech (2022), followed by a discussion of the filmmaking process by director Paul Zehr and editor Eric Ivey. Doc Night is a monthly screening series featuring award-winning documentaries on diverse topics from the environment to social

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SDFF NEWS BITS: ALUMNI UPDATES, FESTS, HONORS, NEW DOCS, INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS

20 SEPTEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Congrats to SDFF alumni filmmaker Julie Wyman (Strong!, Fat Mob), who was awarded a 2022 American Stories Documentary Fellowship for her upcoming Untitled Dwarfism Project Wyman is one of five filmmakers to receive the fellowship, which is sponsored by CNN and Points North Institute in order to support indie documentarians from

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SDFF NEWS BITS: ALUMNI UPDATES, FESTS, HONORS, NEW DOCS, INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS

13 SEPTEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Crystal Lee Kwok’s Blurring The Color Line (Crystal Lee Kwok, SDFF 2022) is taking the South by storm, appearing in two regional film festivals in as many months After just winning an award for “Best People of Color Film” at the 2nd annual Fort Smith International Film Festival, the film, which tells a textured, complex

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Kudos to When Claude Got Shot on Emmy Win!

A big congratulations to When Claude Got Shot (2022) on their Creative Arts Emmy win for exceptional merit in documentary filmmaking. Director Brad Lichtenstein and collaborator and star of the doc, Claude Motley were both on hand at an awards ceremony last Saturday to receive their awards. The doc, which appeared on PBS’s Independent Lens in May, was one of three

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News update header for September 6, 2022, feat. poster images from the documentaries Midnight Family, Bombshell, The Reason I Jump, Crip Camp & Since I Been Down.

SDFF NEWS BITS: ALUMNI UPDATES, FESTS, HONORS, NEW DOCS, INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS

6 SEPTEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. SDFF alumni filmmaker Jerry Rothwell’s recent film The Reason I Jump (2020), an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity, has been nominated for three News & Documentary Emmys®: Outstanding Cinematography, Music Composition and Sound. The film, which premiered at Sundance in 2020 and walked away with the World Cinema Documentary Award,

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First Fall 2022 Doc Night Screening – Belly Of The Beast

SDFF, Trim Tab Media and Rialto Cinemas® Fall Doc Night film series starts Sept. 12 with a screening of Belly Of The Beast (2020), followed by a discussion of the filmmaking process by director Erika Cohn. Doc Night is a monthly screening series featuring award-winning documentaries on diverse topics from the environment to social justice

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SDFF NEWS BITS: ALUMNI UPDATES, FESTS, HONORS, NEW DOCS, INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS

30 AUGUST 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Prolific director of excellent documentary shorts, Ben Proudfoot, was awarded Best Documentary for his film Mink! at the 18th Annual HollyShorts Festival. The film tells the story of Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Hawaiian Democrat who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representative. Mink was an author

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SDFF NEWS BITS: ALUMNI UPDATES, FESTS, HONORS, NEW DOCS, INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS

23 AUGUST 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Maya Cueva and Leah Galant’s abortion doc On The Divide (SDFF 2022) has been nominated for an Imagen Award in the Best Documentary category. Now in its 37th year, the Imagen Awards honor Latino storytelling, performances, writing and creative expression in television and film. Winners will be announced at the Oct. 2

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