SDFF 2021

20 SEPTEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Congrats to SDFF alumni filmmaker Julie Wyman (Strong!, Fat Mob), who was awarded a 2022 American Stories Documentary Fellowship for her upcoming Untitled Dwarfism Project Wyman is one of five filmmakers to receive the fellowship, which is sponsored by CNN and Points North Institute in order to support indie documentarians from […]

13 SEPTEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Crystal Lee Kwok’s Blurring The Color Line (Crystal Lee Kwok, SDFF 2022) is taking the South by storm, appearing in two regional film festivals in as many months After just winning an award for “Best People of Color Film” at the 2nd annual Fort Smith International Film Festival, the film, which tells a textured, complex

6 SEPTEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. SDFF alumni filmmaker Jerry Rothwell’s recent film The Reason I Jump (2020), an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity, has been nominated for three News & Documentary Emmys®: Outstanding Cinematography, Music Composition and Sound. The film, which premiered at Sundance in 2020 and walked away with the World Cinema Documentary Award,

30 AUGUST 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Prolific director of excellent documentary shorts, Ben Proudfoot, was awarded Best Documentary for his film Mink! at the 18th Annual HollyShorts Festival. The film tells the story of Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Hawaiian Democrat who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representative. Mink was an author

23 AUGUST 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Maya Cueva and Leah Galant’s abortion doc On The Divide (SDFF 2022) has been nominated for an Imagen Award in the Best Documentary category. Now in its 37th year, the Imagen Awards honor Latino storytelling, performances, writing and creative expression in television and film. Winners will be announced at the Oct. 2