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

1 NOVEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS IDA just released its shortlist for 2023 awards, and two SDFF 2022 films, Nathalie Giraud and Timothée Corteggiani’s The Silent Shore and Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman’s Nuisance Bear, are on it, along with docs from SDFF alumni filmmakers Ben Proudfoot (MINK!), Jamie Meltzer (Not Even […]

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Several SDFF Alumni Films and Directors Make Recently Announced IDA Shortlist

IDA just released its shortlist for 2023 awards, and two SDFF 2022 films, Nathalie Giraud and Timothée Corteggiani’s The Silent Shore and Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman’s Nuisance Bear, are on it, along with docs from SDFF alumni filmmakers Ben Proudfoot (MINK!), Jamie Meltzer (Not Even for a Moment Do Things Stand Still), Adam

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

25 OCTOBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Oslo Vanden, 2021) has been nominated for three Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards: Best Cinematography (Gabriela Oslo Vanden, Jack Weisman and Sam Holling), Best Short Documentary (The New Yorker) and Best Science/Nature Documentary (The New Yorker). Nuisance Bear is an unconventional and

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

18 OCTOBER 2022 NEW FILMS + PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS Filmmaker Jesse Roesler’s new short, A Voice For The Wild, a kind of sequel to the popular SDFF 2022 short, Breaking Trail (Jesse Roesler, 2021) is showing at the upcoming Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, which will screen films on-site and online Oct. 29-Nov. 6.

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

11 OCTOBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Oslo Vanden, 2021), won the juried Best Non-Fiction Short award at the 25th annual Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (sic), which runs through Oct. 23 at the Tokyo Photographic Museum of Art, and will also stream online. The film is

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

4 OCTOBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS SDFF 2022 selections, Listen To The Beat Of Our Images (Audrey Jean-Baptiste and Maxime Jean-Baptiste, 2020), Blurring The Color Line (Crystal Lee Kwok, SDFF 2022), For Love and Legacy (AK Sandhu, 2021), and The Art Of Making It (Kelcey Edwards, 2022) are among the official selections of the

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

27 SEPTEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Art Of Un-War (2021) will have its European Premiere at the historic Teartro di San Carlo in Naples on Oct. 13, as part of Artecinema, the international contemporary art festival, currently in its 27th year. Filmmaker Maria Niro in toe for the event. Artecinema celebrates films on contemporary art. The

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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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Congrats to SDFF Alumni Ben Proudfoot on his Critic’s Choice Win for Best Documentary Short!

Multi-year SDFF alumni Ben Proudfoot’s Queen Of Basketball (U.S., 22 mins) won Best Short at the 2021 Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards on Sunday. The film, one in Proudfoot’s ongoing Almost Famous collaboration with New York Times Op-Docs, is about Lucy Harris, arguably the greatest living women’s basketball player, who has won three national trophies, played in the ’76 Olympics and was

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NorCal Public Media Presents Slate of Films to Celebrate Native American Heritage Month

Includes Two KCPM Productions: Breath of Life: Revitalizing California Languages and Beyond Recognition NorCal Public Media will be airing a slate of films to celebrate Native American heritage month, with the first one airing tonight (Nov. 1) on KPJK! They include Stories I Didn’t Know, Battle Over Bears Ears, Native Art Now!, Searching for Sequoyah. In addition, NCPM will present

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