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Graphic Header for Bi-Weekly News Update for July 13, 2023. Includes posters for the following films featured in the update: Nelly & Nadine, At Your Cervix, Everything Wrong And Nowhere To Go, Big Water Summer, A Boy Called Piano. #SebDocsNews, #SDFFAlumni, #SDFFPartners

SDFF NEWS: ALUMNI UPDATES, NEW FILMS, FESTIVALS – 26 JULY 2023

AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. A trio of SDFF alumni—Ralph Arlyck’s I Like It Here, Magnus Gertten’s Nelly & Nadine, and Luke Lorentzen’s A Still Small Voice—are showing at the 43rd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, which runs through Aug. 6 in the SF Bay Area, and was co-founded by one SDFF alumni […]

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Congrats To SDFF Alumni Filmmaker Davina Pardo On Her Emmy Noms!

SDFF alumni filmmaker Davina Pardo and co-director/producer Leah Wolchok have been nominated for two Emmys for their documentary feature Judy Blume Forever (97 mins). Pardo and Wolchok have been nominated in the category of Outstanding Directing for A Documentary/Nonfiction Program, and the film is up for Outstanding Documentary/Non-Fiction Special. The Emmys will be announced during

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Graphic Header for Bi-Weekly News Update for July 13, 2023. Includes posters for the following films featured in the update: Since I Been Down, Handwritten, Cara Romero: Following The Light, The Recall: Reframed, More Than I Want To Remember.

SDFF NEWS: ALUMNI UPDATES, NEW FILMS, FESTS, INDUSTRY – 12 JULY 2023

AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. Filmmaker Gilda Shepperd won the award for Best Documentary Director at the 15th New York Indie Film Festival for her doc about racism in the criminal justice system, Since I Been Down (105 mins, SDFF 2021). The film examines a morass of intersecting criminal justice and carceral issues by focusing on

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The Recall: Reframed key art (abstract graphic of chart). The film's central question: how to increase justice for sexual violence survivors without contributing to a racist criminal justice system, is at the heart of a 4-part collaborative journalistic series im the Boston Globe.

Central Question of doc The Recall: Reframed Explored in Four-Part Collaborative Series

The quandary at the heart of The Recall: Reframed (Rebecca Richman Cohen, 26 mins, SDFF 2023) is at the center of a four-part collaborative series of articles appearing in The Boston Globe, which explore how to increase justice for survivors of gendered violence without contributing to a criminal justice system that disproportionately harms vulnerable communities

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Graphic Header for Bi-Weekly News Update for June 27, 2023. Includes posters for the following films featured in the update: Dusty & Stones, More Than I Want To Remember, Move When The Spirit Says Move, Art & Pepe, Body Parts

SDFF NEWS: ALUMNI UPDATES, NEW FILMS, FESTS, INDUSTRY – 27 JULY 2023

27 JUNE 2023 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. SebDocs 2023 Curtain Raiser doc, Dusty & Stones (Jesse Rudoy, 82 mins), about a Swazi country music duo’s journey to Texas to perform at a battle of the bands, took home the Best Documentary Feature Award at this year’s Atlanta Film Festival. The other jury

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Mimi Chakarova's new feature, The Apology, examines racist 60s Era Bay Area relocation policy & reparations. The doc has spurred the Alameda Board of Supervisors to pass an official apology, which recognizes their role in the racist destruction of this community.

New Doc on Racist Forced Relocation In Bay Area Helps Spur Action & Official Apology

The Apology (Mimi Chakarova), an upcoming doc about the forced relocation of Russell City, a majority Black and Brown community in the 1960s Bay Area, is pivotal to an official apology, which the Alameda Board of Supervisors will present to the community’s residents and their descendants on June 27 at 2 p.m. The apology is

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Alumni Filmmaker Screens New Doc on 60s Era Racism & Forced Relocation in Bay Area

As California’s reparations task force approved a potentially groundbreaking list of recommendations earlier this month, The Apology (Mimi Chakarova), a new doc about the forced relocation of Russell City, a majority Black and Brown community in the 1960s Bay Area, was screened for a sizeable crowd in Hayward, including former Russell City residents and their descendants. The

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Listen In! SDFF Directors On The Air

Hear Interviews with 2023 Filmmakers & Festival Directors Matter Of Mind: My ALS & Healing In The Open Directors on KWMR’s Airwaves w/ R. Gallyot Matter Of Mind: My ALS director Anna Moot-Levin on KWMR‘s Airwaves w/ Raul Gallyot Veteran SDFF director Anna Moot-Levin discusses Matter Of Mind: My ALS, an intimate portrait of three

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

24 JANUARY 2023 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. Jack Weisman and Gabriela Oslo Vanden’s Nuisance Bear (2021) won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking at the 16th Cinema Eye last week. The awards, given out at an in-person ceremony at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, recognize

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

17 JANUARY 2023 NEW FILMS & PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS Three SDFF alumni directors have new docs showing at Sundance Film Festival: Davina Pardo’s Judy Blume Forever, about trailblazing children’s author Judy Blume; Luke Lorentzen’s A Still Small Voice, about an aspiring hospital chaplain completing her residency in NYC at the height of the pandemic;

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