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

14 JUNE 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Nefise Özkal Lorentzen’s Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution and Islam was an official selection of two recent film festivals, the 13th Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival (June 1-5) and the 14th NYC Independent Film Festival (June 12-19). These showings prompted some recent coverage, an article in Cinestaan (Mumbai fest) about the film and its subject, as well as […]

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7 JUNE 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Pratt In The Hat (SDFF2022) was featured as part of a recent program from the New Filmmakers Los Angeles, InFocus: Counter-Ageism Shorts. Filmmaker Susan Hillary was profiled in an accompanying NMFLA Stage 5 Interview. The program celebrated counter-ageism cinema with stories of time lost and found, including films

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31 MAY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Silent Pulse Of The Universe, Ben Proudfoot’s short about severely under-appreciated scientist Jocelyn Bell, was nominated for the FOCAL International Award for   best use of footage in a documentary short. Now in their 19th year, the FOCAL awards celebrate the best examples of archive restoration

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Inaugural Bay Area Media Makers Summit Coming Up!

The first Bay Area Media Makers Summit (BAMMS) will take place June 3-5 in San Francisco and Oakland. SDFF will be among the local film festivals, organizations, funders and filmmakers gathering at the summit with the aim of cultivating a collaborative, healthy and inclusive Bay Area filmmaking community. The summit will be comprised of a

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Female Documentarians, Journalists Under Increased Threat in Iran + Israel

While the war has pulled focus on media suppression to Ukraine and Russia, journalists in the Middle East have experienced a worrying uptick in repression and state-sponsored violence since the start of May. In Iran, at least four female documentarians and one photo journalist were arrested as part of an apparent attempt to tamp down

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

24 MAY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The March On Washington Film Festival hosted the D.C. premiere of Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power (Abby Ginzberg, 2021) on Monday night, followed by a post-screening discussion panel featuring Ginzberg, Lee, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del), moderated by White

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17 MAY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Two SDFF 2022 selections, Listen To The Beat Of Our Images (Audrey Jean-Baptiste and Maxime Jean-Baptiste, 2020) and Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, 2021) appeared at Vancouver’s 21st annual DOXA Documentary Film Festival last week. Listen To The Beat Of Our Images explores the

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10 MAY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Queen of Basketball (Ben Proudfoot, 2021) won this year’s Webby for Best Documentary – Shortform. This is director Ben Proudfoot’s second award in this category, having won previously for That’s My Jazz. The Queen of Basketball, which also won this year’s Oscar® for Best Short Documentary,

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3 MAY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. For Love and Legacy (AK Sandhu, 2021) was an official selection of the Pan African Film Festival in L.A. late last month, and has been seeing some increased press in the wake of those screenings, including a recent Moveable Feast interview with director AK Sandhu. Director AK

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26 APRIL 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. A big congratulations to Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth To Power (Abby Ginzberg, 2020), which has won this year’s 53rd NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary. The film paints a vivid and timely portrait of Congresswoman Barbara Lee (California-D), a steadfast voice for human rights, racial and economic

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