Alumni Films + Filmmakers

15 NOVEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS The Beauty President (Whitney Skauge, 2021) is one of around 50 films selected for the SF Trans Film Fest, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The Beauty President tells the story of activist Terence Alan Smith’s historic 1992 bid for U.S. president as his drag persona

8 NOVEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS A retrospective of documentarian’s Jacqueline Zünd’s work, titled Distance and Intimacy, will be screened at the Hong Kong Arts Center’s Louis Koo Cinema, Nov. 17-20. The program’s title is meant to evoke Zünd’s focus on the intimate lives of people from around the world. The retrospective will include

1 NOVEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS IDA just released its shortlist for 2023 awards, and two SDFF 2022 films, Nathalie Giraud and Timothée Corteggiani’s The Silent Shore and Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman’s Nuisance Bear, are on it, along with docs from SDFF alumni filmmakers Ben Proudfoot (MINK!), Jamie Meltzer (Not Even

25 OCTOBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Oslo Vanden, 2021) has been nominated for three Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards: Best Cinematography (Gabriela Oslo Vanden, Jack Weisman and Sam Holling), Best Short Documentary (The New Yorker) and Best Science/Nature Documentary (The New Yorker). Nuisance Bear is an unconventional and

18 OCTOBER 2022 NEW FILMS + PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS Filmmaker Jesse Roesler’s new short, A Voice For The Wild, a kind of sequel to the popular SDFF 2022 short, Breaking Trail (Jesse Roesler, 2021) is showing at the upcoming Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, which will screen films on-site and online Oct. 29-Nov. 6.

11 OCTOBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Oslo Vanden, 2021), won the juried Best Non-Fiction Short award at the 25th annual Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (sic), which runs through Oct. 23 at the Tokyo Photographic Museum of Art, and will also stream online. The film is

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

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