SDFF DOCUMENTARY NEWS

16 AUGUST 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Berkeley Film Foundation honored filmmaker Deborah Craig (A Great Ride, 2018) with the prestigious Saul Zaentz Award...

9 AUGUST 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Two SDFF 2022 shorts, The Chemical Factory (Drew Leung, 2021) and Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Oslo Vanden, 2021), are...

2 AUGUST 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Corbett Joan O’Toole, an activist and historian featured in Crip Camp (James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham, 2020) was one of...

26 JULY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Nefise Özkal Lorentzen’s Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution and Islam won the award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2022 NYC Independent Film...

19 JULY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. When Claude Got Shot (Brad Lichtenstein, 2022) was nominated for an Emmy in the category of Exceptional Merit In...

12 JULY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Five SDFF alumni filmmakers are among the 2022 cohort recently invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture...

5 JULY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, SDFF 2022) won best film in the non-fiction short competition...

28 JUNE 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. For Love and Legacy (AK Sandhu, 2021) was part of Tribeca 2022’s Juneteenth Shorts, Portraits and Performance: Celebrating Black...

21 JUNE 2022 NEW FILMS & PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS A new film by Madeleine Lim, Jewelle: A Just Vision, premiered at the 18th Annual Queer Women of Color...

14 JUNE 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Nefise Özkal Lorentzen’s Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution and Islam was an official selection of two recent film festivals, the 13th Kashish Mumbai...