SDFF DOCUMENTARY NEWS

Filmmaker Claims Show Producers + CBS Deceived Him About ADA Compliant Ramp to Stage Following the Emmy Awards show on Sunday night, Crip Camp director Jim Le...

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 SDFF ALUMNI NEWS Italian documentarian and journalist, Stefano Liberti, whose film Soyalism (2019, Italy) was an SDFF 2020 Official Selection, made the news this...

Last Time Doc Short-listed for the Academy Awards will be Eligible for Emmy Congrats to East Bay filmmaker and SDFF alum Nels Bangerter on the...

Pol. + Gov & Best Doc Advocate (Philippe Bellaiche + Rachel Leah Jones, 2019) A portrait of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli human rights lawyer who...

“More and more frequently I bless the people that others have called my ‘enemy’ or ‘unacceptable’ or ‘crazy,’ for it is the presence of such...

Following the release of the acclaimed documentary (and SDFF 2021 selection) Julia Scotti: Funny That Way (Susan Sandler, 2021), Julia Scotti, the film’s star was recently featured on...

A Concerto is a Conversation,SDFF alum Ben Proudfoot’s much-celebrated collaboration with film composer and co-Director Kris Bowers and The New York Times OpDocs is nominated for Best Documentary...

SDFF co-Director and Lead Programmer Jean McGlothlin (JM) interviewed Director Cliff Caines (CC) about his film Workhorse, which will be streaming on  DA Films America from March 1-21 as SDFF’s pick...

KAPAEMAHU BECOMES FIRST HAWAIIAN FILM IN ANIMATED SHORT CATEGORY When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts released its most recent crop of 2021 nominees, Kapaemahu became the first...

A heartfelt congratulations to SDFF alum Skye Fitzgerald, whose deeply humanistic observational doc, Hunger Ward: The Last Hope Against War and Starvation, was recently shortlisted...