SDFF DOCUMENTARY NEWS

Best Documentary winner ADVOCATE (Philippe Bellaiche + Rachel Leah Jones, 2019) A portrait of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli human rights lawyer who has represented political...

OCTOBER 6, 2021 While he isn’t an SDFF Alumni, a big congrats this week to Sebastopol’s own Cary Joji Fukunaga who directed No Time To Die, the...

15th Annual Documentary Film Festival Returns to Live/In-Person Events March 22-27 SDFF 2022 DEADLINE SCHEDULE 10/8 LATE/FINAL DEADLINE 12/17 SELECTED FILMS NOTIFIED  1/5 FILMMAKER RESPONSE...

SDFF Alum’s New Project Selected for Sundance/Sandbox Fund & SFFilm Rainin Filmmakers With Disabilities grants Julie Wyman’s Untitled Dwarfism Project was recently selected for two prestigious non-fiction...

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 SDFF ALUMNI FESTIVAL NEWS SDFF 2021 selection The Dilemma Of Desire, directed by Peabody Award winner Maria Finitzo, is opening the Midwest Film...

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...