2020 FILMMAKER INTERVIEWS + DISCUSSIONS

SDFF co-Director Jean McGlothlin interviews Eye of the Pangolin Director Bruce Young about raising awareness about this curious, rare animal.

The Wild director Mark Titus sat down with SDFF co-Director Jean McGlothlin to talk about his film and the battle to save Bristol Bay from mining and environmental decimation.

The directors of SDFF 2020's Opening Night film, Our Time Machine, S. Leo Chiang and Yang Sun talk art, memory, film and Maleonn and Ma Ke, the brilliant artist and his father, a Peking Opera director, at the center of their film.

Filmmaker Iza Pająk accepts the SDFF 2020 Jury Award for Best Mini-Doc for The Whale.

Filmmaker Hannah Nordenswan accepts the SDFF 2020 Jury Award for Best Short for Night Cleaners.

WINNER 2020 JURY AWARD – BEST FEATURE MIDNIGHT FAMILY Luke Lorentzen2020, United States and Mexico, 90 mins, Filmmaker Luke Lorentzen accepts the SDFF 2020 Jury...

SDFF 2020 Docs Make House Calls Q&A with Cynthia Abbot & Andrea Leland filmmakers of Dick Ogg: Fisherman with host Jeffrey Zankel. Living and fishing...

Eva Rendle, director of All That Remains discusses her film, the wildfire that tore through wine country in 2017, and the heightened state of insecurity and inequality to which it contributed among the region's farmworkers.

Filmmaker/scholar Karen Pearlman (I Want To Make A Film About Women) sits down with SDFF Director and filmmaker Jane Winslow to discuss how film form and style figure into her cinematic elaboration of an obscured history in After The Facts (2018)and I Want To Make A Film About Women (2019).

SDFF co-director Jean McGlothlin discusses the function and current state of local journalism with Eric Eyre, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter featured in Sustained Outrage and Christine Schiavo, of UC Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program focusing students on local news.