SDFF DOCUMENTARY NEWS

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...

Risks To Female Athletes Heightened Under New Regime Italian documentarian and journalist Stefano Liberti made the news last after helping 3 members of a women’s...

SDFF 2020 Selection Gives Insight Into Increasing Restrictions on Women’s Bodily Autonomy, Self-Determination, Citizenship The recent Texas abortion ban granting private citizens the right to...

D-WORD JOINS WITH AFGHAN RESOURCES PROJECT, REQUIRES URGENT FUNDING After several weeks working to help move Afghani colleagues and associates out of harms’ way, longtime...

Life of Lesbian Luminary & Gender Studies Pioneer Celebrated On Sept. 30, the SF Commonwealth Club will hold a special tribute to lesbian feminist activist,...

SDFF 2019 Selection Gives Context, Human Stakes to Heated Public Discourse The recent withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan has triggered intense public discourse about the...

In early July, the UAE announced it had selected 28 year-old mechanical engineer Nora al-Matrooshi to train as an astronaut for its expanding space program, and will...

Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa by SDFF alums Barbara and Mike Attie and Janet Goldwater won the AFI Docs 2020 Grand Jury Short Award  and is...

Tragically, Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Reserve Opened to Oil Drilling by Trump Admin The fight to halt a mining project in the Alaskan Tundra, which...

While SDFF 2020 Official Selection, Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World (Hans Pool, 2018) won an Emmy in 2019, it’s now up for a second...