SDFF 2021 Filmmaker Interviews

DIRECTOR MIRRA BANK, “NO FEAR, NO FAVOR”

SDFF Co-Director Jean McGlothlin interviews filmmaker Mirra Bank about her important and beautifully shot film, No Fear No Favor. Bank discuses her approach to representing nature conservation and poaching, which encompasses these issues as part of a larger system of interlocking problems, including an economic situation that leads people, like the film’s central character, to poach in […]

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JULIA SCOTTI + DIR. SUSAN SANDLER,
“JULIA SCOTTI: FUNNY THAT WAY”

SDFF Co-Director Jane Winslow sits down with writer/director Susan Sandler and comedian/film collaborator Julia Scotti to talk about Julia Scotti: Funny That Way. This intimate, funny and deeply human film tells a story of becoming that resonates beyond Julia’s personal story of gender transition. In the interview, Sandler and Scotti discuss the dynamics of their documentary

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“JULIA SCOTTI: FUNNY THAT WAY”
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DIRECTOR MOSTAFA SALEHI NEZHAD,
“THREE METERS AND A FEW CENTIMETERS”

SDFF Co-Director Jean McGlothlin sits down for for a conversation with Three Meters And A Few Centimeters Director Mostafa Salehi Nezhad. The duo discuss Mostafa’s filmmaking practice, how he came to the film’s difficult topic, and what motivated him to put himself at such grave risk during the pandemic to film it. This interview is one of

DIRECTOR MOSTAFA SALEHI NEZHAD,
“THREE METERS AND A FEW CENTIMETERS”
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