Film Industry

Congrats to SDFF ALUM The Rescue List & Advocate On Their Emmy Wins!

Best Documentary winner ADVOCATE (Philippe Bellaiche + Rachel Leah Jones, 2019) A portrait of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli human rights lawyer who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years. Outstanding Social Issue Documentary THE RESCUE LIST (Alyssa Fedele + Zachary Fink, 2018) Social workers help two children rescued from childhood enslavement on Ghana’s Lake […]

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Congrats to SDFF ALUM On Their Emmy Noms!

Pol. + Gov & Best Doc Advocate (Philippe Bellaiche + Rachel Leah Jones, 2019) A portrait of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli human rights lawyer who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years. Best Social Issue Doc The Rescue List (Alyssa Fedele + Zachary Fink, 2018) Social workers help two children rescued from childhood enslavement

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Congratulations to SDFF Alumni on their Academy Award Nominations!

A Concerto is a Conversation,SDFF alum Ben Proudfoot’s much-celebrated collaboration with film composer and co-Director Kris Bowers and The New York Times OpDocs is nominated for Best Documentary Short. Read Full Story  l Visit Breakwater Studio Films  l  Watch The Film The final film in SDFF Alum Skye Fitzgerald’s “Humanitarian Cinema Trilogy,” the short observational doc, Hunger Ward: The Last Hope

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