Kirsten Johnson films

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 SDFF ALUMNI FESTIVAL NEWS SDFF 2021 selection The Dilemma Of Desire, directed by Peabody Award winner Maria Finitzo, is opening the Midwest Film Festival in Chicago on Oct. 2. Another of Finitzo’s films, Until She Is Free, which imagines a culturally “cliterate” world, has been selected for this year’s Lunafest, a traveling film festival by, for, […]

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 SDFF ALUMNI NEWS Italian documentarian and journalist, Stefano Liberti, whose film Soyalism (2019, Italy) was an SDFF 2020 Official Selection, made the news this week when he became pivotal in helping female, Afghani soccer players into Italy. Liberti was contacted via facebook by the captain of Bastan, a women’s soccer team featured his film

Congrats to East Bay filmmaker and SDFF alum Nels Bangerter on the Emmy wins for Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirstin Johnson, 2020). The film won Creative Arts Emmys for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Directing in Documentary Filmmaking, and Cinematography in a Non-Fiction Program. Dick Johnson Is Dead was shortlisted for an Academy Award before this win, and

The warmest digital applause to East Bay filmmaker Nels Bangerter for collecting a best editing award at IDA, along with a nod for best writing with co-writer/director Kirsten Johnson for Dick Johnson Is Dead.The film also won Sundance’s Special Jury Award for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling, and Independent Lens’ New York Times Critic’s Pick. Bangerter edited