News - Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival

A Great Ride Selected for Amazon Prime’s All Voices Fest

Stream At Home & Help Fund Filmmaker’s New Project! SDFF 2019 Official Selection A Great Ride has been selected for Amazon Prime’s All Voices Festival....

MADAME MARS Goes To Cambridge STEM Summit & SDFF Best of the Fest!

Festival Favorite Madame Mars and its fabulous filmmaker Jan Millsapps will be on their way to the UK in July after receiving an invite from...

SDFF Alum Ben Proudfoot’s Collab with Award-Winning Film Composer Kris Bowers & NY Times OpDocs Shows at Sundance, Adds Ava DuVarnay as EP in Lead-up to Oscars

Ben Proudfoot, whose SDFF 2020 entry That’s My Jazz, was a fan favorite, is seeing his ongoing collaborations with the New York Times OpDocs celebrated across the film world,...

SDFF Alum Streams Oscar-Winning Short + Important Historical Work for Free

Marshall Curry, whose film Racing Dreams was an SDFF 2010 Official Selection, won the 2020 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short with his remarkable and unexpectedly...

My Mother Was Here gets Nod in the North

Filmmaker/author Rustin Thompson recently received a nod for Best Documentary by a Seattle filmmaker at the upstart Seattle Film Festival for his challenging, but deeply moving film My...

Revisiting Hillbilly

2018 Doc Resonates in Present Day, Provides Context for Hillbilly Elegy Adaptation & Its Critical Reception When Netflix delivered Ron Howard’s film adaptation of J.D. Vance’s...

Our Time Machine Streaming Via Rialto Cinemas®

Our Time Machine Streaming Via Rialto Cinemas® If you missed it at SDFF, Rialto Cinemas® will be streaming Our Time Machine (Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang, 2020)...

Filmmaker Attempts to Shed Light on Navajo Nation’s COVID Crisis + Effort to Protect Its Most Vulnerable

After visiting the Navajo nation earlier this month, filmmaker Karney Hatch (Overdrawn, Plant This Movie!) was overcome by the staggering number of cases and the...