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When the nominees for the 44th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards were announced last week, the list included six films screened at SDFF from 2021-23, and two more projects made by alumni filmmakers. This year’s nominees were selected from 2,300 submissions that made their broadcast or streaming premiere in 2022. In a nomination field […]
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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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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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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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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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Jaime Sunwoo’s short Handwritten (SDFF 2023) won the award for Best Emerging Documentary Filmmaker at The American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at Cannes this year. Handwritten was one of 38 short films from five countries that comprise this year’s overall showcase, 22 of which came from women filmmakers. The film was screened on May 24
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SebDocs Pauses Annual Schedule to Reinvent and Expand Film Program and Festival June 1 usually opens calls for entries to the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. Not this year. As Michael Moore writes, “It is time for us to invent something new, something bold that is progressive and sustainable…” SDFF 2023 wrapped as a resounding success.
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After a three-year pandemic hiatus, OUTwatch Film Festival will re-emerge June 9-11 at Rialto Cinemas® Sebastopol, joining Sonoma County Pride’s celebrations for the first time. The festival El Equipo (The Team) (Bernardo Ruiz, 81 mins), which won the Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature at this year’s SebDocs Festival, made the recently released HotDocs Audience
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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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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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