SDFF DOCUMENTARY NEWS

14 DECEMBER 2021 NEW FILMS & PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS A new series, Secrets of Playboy, from filmmaker Alexandra Dean (Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, This Is...

7 DECEMBER 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SDFF alumni filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz was on the Gotham Awards jury for Best New Nonfiction TV series, which was handed...

30 NOVEMBER 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. Oscar-nominated director and multi-year SDFF alumni, Skye Fitzgerald will mentor Colombian documentarian Pedro Samper Murillo, who was awarded...

23 NOVEMBER 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. Congratulations to Valentina Serebrennikova, whose work on I Want To Make A Film About Women won the award for costume...

16 NOVEMBER 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. DOC NEWS Unsilenced, Leon Lee’s new feature film that showcases China’s human rights abuses won an 2021 Audience Award...

Multi-year SDFF alumni Ben Proudfoot’s Queen Of Basketball (U.S., 22 mins) won Best Short at the 2021 Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards on Sunday. The film, one in Proudfoot’s ongoing Almost...

9 NOVEMBER 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. DOC NEWS Filmmaker Corina Schwingruber Ilić won the Golden Dove audience award for feature-length docs at DOK Leipzig this...

NOVEMBER 3, 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. From the Wild Sea (Robin Petré, 2021) is one of 10 features comprising the 2021 Europe! Voices Of Women In...

OCTOBER 27, 2021 LOCAL DOC NEWS The Sonoma County Virtual Jewish Film Festival is happening right now, and runs through Tuesday, Nov. 2. The festival is put...

OCTOBER 20, 2021 LOCAL DOCUMENTARY NEWS Invisible: Gay Women In Southern Music (T.J. Parsell, 2021), a new doc exploring queer female singer/songwriters who have successfully navigated...