2023 DISCUSSION PANEL

Filmmaker Pelin Esmer accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Feature for Queen Lear, in which a theater group comprised of peasant women take their performance of King Lear on the road in rural Turkey.

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).

Continuing SDFF’s conversation on documentary sound, William Storkson sits down with SDFF co-Director Jane Winslow to discuss sound as a character in films.

SDFF Co-Director Jean McGlothlin sits down with documentary filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald to talk about Hunger Ward, documentary ethics, style and politics, humani