INDUSTRY NEWS

10 JANUARY 2023 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. No Straight Lines (2021), Vivian Kleinman’s doc about queer comics, will make its national television debut on Jan. 23, when it airs as part of PBS’s prestigious Independent Lens. Independent Lens is a long-running PBS series dedicated to independent docs that are intensely personal, yet speak to […]

3 JANUARY 2023 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. One SDFF 2022 selection and three docs from SDFF alumni filmmakers have been shortlisted for 95th Academy Awards®. Vaunted and visually arresting, Gabriela Oslo Vanden and Jack Weisman’s Nuisance Bear (2021), which recently received an honorable mention for IDA’s Pare Lorentz Award, has been shortlisted

20 DECEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. Two SDFF 2022 docs about women and popular music, Fanny The Right To Rock (Bobbi Jo Hart, 2021) and I’m Wanita (Matthew Walker, 2021), are both eligible for the Oscar® Best Documentary Feature Film award. Fanny The Right To Rock has been celebrated on the

13 DECEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. The Pratt In The Hat (Susan Hillary, SDFF2022) is one of 40 films that will make their New Jersey debuts at the 41st New Jersey Film Festival in Spring. The Pratt In The Hat is a documentary short a short about Frances Pratt who shares her

5 DECEMBER 2022 NEW FILMS + PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS The filmmakers behind SDFF 2021 Best Short winner Kapaemāhū—Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, and Daniel Sousa—are collaborating on a new animated short film, Falling, which follows the romantic adventures of a valiant island warrior, a handsome young man and an octopus brought together by

29 NOVEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS Maya Cueva and Leah Galant’s abortion doc On The Divide (SDFF 2022) was awarded the Humanitarian Award at the 2022 DOCUTAH International Film Festival. The film was one of 10 to receive honors of at the festival, which gives awards in conventional categories, like Best Feature/Short and

22 NOVEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS Congrats to Gabriela Oslo Vanden, Jack Weisman and the crew behind Nuisance Bear (The New Yorker, 2021), which won the Critics’ Choice Documentary Award for Best Short, and the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival award for best environmental film. The beloved SDFF 2022 film was also nominated

15 NOVEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS The Beauty President (Whitney Skauge, 2021) is one of around 50 films selected for the SF Trans Film Fest, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The Beauty President tells the story of activist Terence Alan Smith’s historic 1992 bid for U.S. president as his drag persona

8 NOVEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS A retrospective of documentarian’s Jacqueline Zünd’s work, titled Distance and Intimacy, will be screened at the Hong Kong Arts Center’s Louis Koo Cinema, Nov. 17-20. The program’s title is meant to evoke Zünd’s focus on the intimate lives of people from around the world. The retrospective will include