2022 AWARD WINNER SPEECHES + INTROS

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 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 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 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.

Filmmakers Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson accept the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Short for Kapaemahu.

Filmmaker Marlén Viñayo accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Short for Unforgivable, in which a ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang serves his sentence in a Salvadoran evangelical prison, where he is guilty not only of his crimes, but of being gay.

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 David Baram accepts the SDFF 2021 Audience Award for Best Short for One All The Way, in which three elderly Jersey guys search for the world’s greatest Hot Texas Weiner and discover what happened to their hometown.

Filmmaker Iza Pająk accepts the SDFF 2020 Jury Award for Best Mini-Doc for The Whale.

Filmmaker Hannah Nordenswan accepts the SDFF 2020 Jury Award for Best Short for Night Cleaners.