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SDFF NEWS BITS: ALUMNI UPDATES, FESTS, HONORS, NEW DOCS, INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS

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23 NOVEMBER 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. Congratulations to Valentina Serebrennikova, whose work on I Want To Make A Film About Women won the award for costume design in a short film, music video, or web series from the Australian Production Design Guild! I Want To Make A Film About Women (Karen Pearlman, 2020) is a formally experimental, Queer […]

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16 NOVEMBER 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. DOC NEWS Unsilenced, Leon Lee’s new feature film that showcases China’s human rights abuses won an 2021 Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival. The film is based on the true story of two young couples who were students at China’s Tsinghua University and paid a heavy price after

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9 NOVEMBER 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. DOC NEWS Filmmaker Corina Schwingruber Ilić won the Golden Dove audience award for feature-length docs at DOK Leipzig this year for Dida, a film she made with her husband Nikola Ilić about her mother Dida. The filmmaker’s mother has a learning disability that has made her dependent on her own

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021 ALUMNI AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. From the Wild Sea (Robin Petré, 2021) is one of 10 features comprising the 2021 Europe! Voices Of Women In Film Strand at the Sydney Film Festival, which runs from Nov. 3-14. The joint initiative between SFF and European Film Promotion began in 2016 and is intended to generate international exposure for

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OCTOBER 27, 2021 LOCAL DOC NEWS The Sonoma County Virtual Jewish Film Festival is happening right now, and runs through Tuesday, Nov. 2. The festival is put on by the Sonoma County Jewish Community Center and has Spring and Autumn iterations, which bring the newest and best of Jewish-themed and Israeli films that are otherwise difficult for

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OCTOBER 20, 2021 LOCAL DOCUMENTARY NEWS Invisible: Gay Women In Southern Music (T.J. Parsell, 2021), a new doc exploring queer female singer/songwriters who have successfully navigated the male-dominated landscape of Southern music will be screened at Rialto Cinemas® Sebastopol on Friday evening. Rialto® is pairing with OUTwatch for the screening, which focuses on the lives of women who have written

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IATSE Strike Averted by Provisional Deal That Faces Worker Dissent, Possible Rejection

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Negotiations Stop Hollywood Shut-Down, But Dismayed Workers Discuss Rejecting Deal IATSE-AMPTP negotiations may not have gotten quite the “Hollywood ending” initially touted by the union after a tentative agreement was reached on Saturday night. While IATSE claimed victory with a “landmark” agreement, outlets from Variety to Indiewire have reported the deal could be rejected by union members who disappointed

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IATSE Authorizes Potentially Historic Strike in Landslide Vote, Negotiations Continue

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Streaming Contract Negotiations May Auger Future for Other Hollywood Guilds Members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, or IATSE, voted overwhelmingly earlier this week to authorize a strike if negotiations break down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The vote to authorize the strike was a landslide with 98.7% of 90% of

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Amazon Prime Video Direct Expels Indie Docs and Shorts from Streaming Platform

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Worsens Conditions for Many Filmmakers Relying on Streaming During Pandemic In late February, a number of independent documentarians found the already difficult tasks of accessing new audiences at home and making ends meet in a pandemic even more arduous when their films were expelled from Amazon Prime Video Direct as part of a blanket policy

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