SDFF DOCUMENTARY NEWS

12 APRIL 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Silent Shore (Nathalie Giraud and Timothée Corteggiani, 2021) won the Jury Award for Best Short at...

8 FEBRUARY 2022 NEW FILMS & PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS Marian Anderson: The Whole World In Her Hands premieres tonight (2/8) on PBS American. The film,...

1 FEBRUARY 2022 DOCS IN THE NEWS Investigative journalism outlet Bellingcat made its second major documentary appearance in the upcoming film Navalny (Daniel Roher, 2022), which went home with...

18 JANUARY 2022 DOCS IN THE NEWS An IndieWire column hit close to home for SDFF this week, pointing to the impact the pandemic has...

11 JANUARY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS Snowy (Kaitlyn Schwalje & Alex Wolf Lewis, 2021), a short about a tiny turtle’s happiness, is one of five films...

4 JANUARY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS Waad al-Kateab (For Sama w/ Edward Watts, 2019) was recently announced as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Gold...

22 DECEMBER 2021 NEW FILMS + PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS When it premieres at Sundance 2022, ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught) (Brit Hensel with Keli Gonzales, 2021) will...

14 DECEMBER 2021 NEW FILMS & PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS A new series, Secrets of Playboy, from filmmaker Alexandra Dean (Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, This Is...

7 DECEMBER 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SDFF alumni filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz was on the Gotham Awards jury for Best New Nonfiction TV series, which was handed...

30 NOVEMBER 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. Oscar-nominated director and multi-year SDFF alumni, Skye Fitzgerald will mentor Colombian documentarian Pedro Samper Murillo, who was awarded...