2020 FESTIVAL ARCHIVE: DOCS MAKE HOUSE CALLS
Documentaries Make House Calls (DMHC) was the streaming version of Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 2020. Less than a week out from our live festival in 2020, Sonoma County was among those in the United States already beginning to see SARS-CoV-2 cases in what would become a worldwide pandemic. An international festival, with cases already proliferating, we decided to postpone the festival, hoping the virus would be kept under control within a number of weeks or months. Unfortunately, that was not the case, and we ended up moving to a digital format for the year. DMHC was the form that SDFF 2020 took online.
While we were grateful to have the opportunity to honor the films and filmmakers we had chosen, and excited to give their work a platform, the decision was excruciating. Streaming was an expense we hadn’t planned for, and instead of showing all 72 films we had selected, we could only stream 39. So, while this page only lists the DMHC titles, the full 2020 film guide with all 72 original titles is available here, along with film descriptions, photos and trailers wherever possible. We encourage you to check out this expanded list, there are many unbelievably good films that we just couldn’t bring you this year. We’ll be keeping up with this expanded list of filmmakers, and hope that you will too.
The films listed on the page below all streamed as a part of DMHC 2020. We hope you’ll keep an eye out for them as they make their way to various streaming platforms, and we’ll try to keep you updated on that front. And, while the digital fest didn’t afford us the opportunity to show all of our 2020 selections, or to hold an in-person festival that is a warm, welcoming congregation of filmmakers, cinephiles, and wonderfully curious community members, it did propel us to record a number of interviews with DMHC filmmakers, which can be found on SDFF’s Video Exclusives page, under the “2020 Filmmaker Interviews + Discussions” header.
May 20, 2020
LUKE LORENTZEN, “MIDNIGHT FAMILY”
May 20, 2020
IZA PAJĄK, “THE WHALE”
May 20, 2020
HANNAH NORDENSWAN, “NIGHT CLEANERS”
FILMMAKER INTERVIEWS & PANELS
June 16, 2020
YANG SUN + S. LEO CHIANG,
“OUR TIME MACHINE” (w/ Extras!)
September 1, 2020
TROND KVIG ANDREASSEN, “NEIGHBOURS”
August 23, 2020
JON OSAKI, “ALTERNATIVE FACTS: THE LIES OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066”
July 29, 2020
DIRECTOR MARK TITUS, “THE WILD”
May 6, 2020
DIRECTOR EVA RENDLE,
“ALL THAT REMAINS”
July 29, 2020
DIRECTOR BRUCE YOUNG,
“EYE OF THE PANGOLIN”
May 7, 2020
CYNTHIA ABBOT + ANDREA LELAND,
“DICK OGG: FISHERMAN”
September 1, 2020
BO KOVITZ, “THE DESERT”
DMHC 2020 PROGRAM
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Preview Week:
Shorts w/ Filmmaker Conversations
Keeper of the Creek filmmaker Dan Goldes
Rewilding Honeybees filmmaker Cameron Neilson
A Pilgrimage filmmakers: Sara Alexander & Brian Antonson
Three Red Sweaters filmmaker Martha Gregory
All That Remains filmmaker Eva Rendle
All That Remains Filmmaker Interview w/ Director/Producer Eva Rendle
Dick Ogg: Fisherman filmmaker Cynthia Abbot
Dick Ogg: Fisherman Filmmaker Interview w/ Director Cynthia Abbott + Producer Andrea Leland
Week 1:
Opening Night
Our Time Machine filmmakers Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang
Our Time Machine Filmmaker Interview w/ Directors Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang
Week 2:
SDFF 2020 Jury Winners
Midnight Family filmmaker Luke Lorentzen
Night Cleaners filmmaker Hannah Nordenswan
The Whale filmmaker Iza Pająk
Week 3:
Music Docs
The Poster Boys filmmakers Joshua Lamme Hilliard and Bobo Simmons
Strange Tenants: Ska’d for Life filmmaker Fiona Cochrane
That’s My Jazz filmmaker: Ben Proudfoot
Week 4:
Environmental Activism
The Wild filmmaker by Mark Titus
The Wild Filmmaker Interview with Director Mark Titus
Eye of the Pangolin filmmaker Bruce Young
Eye of the Pangolin Filmmaker Interview with Director Bruce Young
L’eau est la vie: From Standing Rock to the Swamp filmmaker Sam Vinal
Week 5:
Indelible Artists Shorts Program
Hebo filmmaker Kevin Wells
Kamali filmmaker Sasha Rainbow
Long Yearning filmmaker Elliot Spencer
Quiet Hours filmmaker Paul Szynol
The Worlds of Bernice Bing filmmaker Madeline Lim
Week 6:
Hidden Histories – Seeking Social Justice
Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 filmmaker Jon Osaki
Alternative Facts Filmmaker Interview with Director Jon Osaki
5 Blocks filmmaker Dan Goldes & Robert Cortland
Week 7:
Summer Shorts Program
Green Screen Gringo filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra
Knocking Down The Fences filmmaker Meg Shutzer
Motorcycle Man filmmaker Daniel Lovering
Neighbours filmmaker Trond Kvig Andreasson
Neighbours Filmmaker Interview w/ Director Trond Kvig Andreasson
Week 8:
Identity & Performance on Stage & Screen
Gay Chorus Deep South David Charles Rodrigues
Siudy Entre Mundos: 50 performances of the American Dream Pablo Croce
Week 9:
Who Are You? Part 1
Dear Homeland Claudia Escobar
Where We Belong Jacqueline Zünd
Week 10:
Who Are You? Part 2
All That Remains filmmaker Eva Rendle
All That Remains Filmmaker Interview w/ Director/Producer Eva Rendle
The Desert filmmaker Bo Kovitz
The Desert Filmmaker Interview w/ Director Bo Kovitz
The Wind. A Documentary Thriller filmmaker Michal Bielawski
Week 11:
Who Are You? Part 3
Kamali filmmaker Sasha Rainbow
Maikaru filmmaker Amanda Harryman
Moment To Moment filmmaker Michael Attie
After The Fire filmmaker Derek Knowles & Spencer Seibert
Knocking Down The Fences filmmaker Meg Shutzer
A Pilgrimage filmmakers Sara Alexander & Brian Antonson
Dick Ogg: Fisherman filmmaker Cynthia Abbot
Dick Ogg: Fisherman Filmmaker Interview w/ Director Cynthia Abbott + Producer Andrea Leland
Week 12:
Who Are You? Part 4
Queen Of The Beach filmmaker Christopher McDonald
Butterfly filmmakers Alessandro Cassigoli + Casey Kauffman
THE FILM