SDFF 2021

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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 […]

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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

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Kudos to When Claude Got Shot on Emmy Win!

A big congratulations to When Claude Got Shot (2022) on their Creative Arts Emmy win for exceptional merit in documentary filmmaking. Director Brad Lichtenstein and collaborator and star of the doc, Claude Motley were both on hand at an awards ceremony last Saturday to receive their awards. The doc, which appeared on PBS’s Independent Lens in May, was one of three

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News update header for September 6, 2022, feat. poster images from the documentaries Midnight Family, Bombshell, The Reason I Jump, Crip Camp & Since I Been Down.

SDFF NEWS BITS: ALUMNI UPDATES, FESTS, HONORS, NEW DOCS, INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS

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,

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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

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SDFF NEWS BITS: ALUMNI UPDATES, FESTS, HONORS, NEW DOCS, INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS

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

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SDFF NEWS BITS: ALUMNI UPDATES, FESTS, HONORS, NEW DOCS, INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS

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 for her new film Sally, a biopic about lesbian feminist activist, writer and professor Sally Gearhart, who passed away a little over a year ago. SDFF audiences know Sally from her show-stopping appearance in

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SDFF Film About Abortion, Women’s Health and Bodily Autonomy

As you no doubt already know, the  U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, suspending legal access to vital reproductive health care for woman across the United States and effectively curtailing women’s rights to self-determination and bodily autonomy. In hopes of providing some educational resources that can lend context and dimension to the

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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 official selections of the 18th Annual HollyShorts Festival, which runs Aug. 11-20. The Chemical Factory, in which an immigrant mother retraces her early years during the Chinese Cultural Revolution to her son, is one

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SDFF NEWS BITS: ALUMNI UPDATES, FESTS, HONORS, NEW DOCS, INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS

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 20 artists selected for the Disability Futures Fellowship. Created by, for, and with disabled practitioners, Disability Futures is an initiative—developed in partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation,

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