Filmmaker Pelin Esmer accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Feature for Queen Lear, in which a theater group comprised of peasant women take their performance of King Lear on the road in rural Turkey.
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Filmmaker Pelin Esmer accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Feature for Queen Lear, in which a theater group comprised of peasant women take their performance of King Lear on the road in rural Turkey.
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SDFF proudly announces the Inaugural presentation of the Jean McGlothlin Documentary Spirit Award to filmmakers and longtime festival supporters, Vivien Hillgrove and James LeBrecht. While both of the recipients are esteemed filmmakers whose work has shown at the festival, they have also supported the SDFF over the years and shown great generosity in mentoring younger
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SDFF is co-Presenting the gorgeously cinematic doc Overland at IndieFest’s launch of the Livable Plant Film Fest, which will stream online from April 22-May 2. Overland (Revere La Noue and Elisabeth Haviland James, Czech Republic 104 mins) is a visually stunning film that travels across four continents, and too many cultural, personal and emotional landscapes
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is moving to June. In light of ever changing COVID-19 conditions, and the impact on our industry, audience and bottom line we’re moving forward on the 2021 calendar. We all miss the interaction of being together to make a memorable event … the energy of gathering for shared experience. Already in
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A mode of representation defined by its relationship to reality, documentary has a troubled history in connection with race and racism. It is a genre that for a number of reasons is tightly bound-up with science, and developed alongside, and as evidence for, racial pseudo-science. From the motion studies of Félix-Louis Regnault to the commercial ethnography
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See filmmakers’ acceptance speeches: The Whale by Iza Pajak Night Cleaners by Hanna Nordenswan Midnight Family by Luke Lorentzen Full List of SDFF 2020 Selections
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 2020 scheduled for 26- 29 March is postponed. We are tremendously sad and disappointed to make this announcement. We recognize that this is not the time to create and promote public gatherings. We are determined to do our part towards keeping a healthy and safe environment during this uncertain time. For
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The night in March when we postponed SDFF 2020 is now far behind us. It was just days before Opening Night. A set of circumstances none of us could have foreseen as Sonoma County introduced measures to severely restrict public gatherings. Nor could we have imagined the ensuing pandemic that has torn through nearly every
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Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is proud to announce that it has been approved by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an Academy Qualifying Festival for the Documentary Short Subject category. Currently in its 13th year, the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival’s mission to bring the best in documentary film to Sonoma County has
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