SDFF 2021

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 Festival in mid-June. The film, an SDFF2022 fave, is a profile of Seyran Ateş, a Turkish-German lawyer, feminist, and one of Europe’s first female imams, who has garnered controversy for her stance […]

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 Documentary. The doc, which appeared on PBS’s Independent Lens in May, is one of three nominees in the category. Changing The Game (Alex Schmider, Hulu) and Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (Julia Marchesi/HBO)`were also

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 Arts and Sciences, the professional organization best known for its yearly awards ceremony, The Oscars®. The SDFF alumni inductees for 2022 include: Ellen Bruno, whose shorts Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy, Samsara:

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 at the 24th Short Film Festival & Asia 2022 (SSFF & ASIA). Nuisance Bear is an unconventional and visually arresting study of the polar bears who draw tourists to Churchill, Manitoba. The festival

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 Art and Artists. Director AK Sandhu and collaborator/subject Fredrika Newton attended festival screenings of the film. In the SDFF 2022 documentary, sculptor Dana King’s hands and activist Fredrika Newton’s memories come together

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 Festival last week in San Francisco. The documentary profiles poet playwright, activist and GLAAD co-founder  Jewelle Gomez, an Ioway, African American, Wampanoag and Cape Verdean lesbian elder. The doc not only documents

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 International Queer Film Festival (June 1-5) and the 14th NYC Independent Film Festival (June 12-19). These showings prompted some recent coverage, an article in Cinestaan (Mumbai fest) about the film and its subject, as well as

7 JUNE 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Pratt In The Hat (SDFF2022) was featured as part of a recent program from the New Filmmakers Los Angeles, InFocus: Counter-Ageism Shorts. Filmmaker Susan Hillary was profiled in an accompanying NMFLA Stage 5 Interview. The program celebrated counter-ageism cinema with stories of time lost and found, including films

31 MAY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Silent Pulse Of The Universe, Ben Proudfoot’s short about severely under-appreciated scientist Jocelyn Bell, was nominated for the FOCAL International Award for   best use of footage in a documentary short. Now in their 19th year, the FOCAL awards celebrate the best examples of archive restoration

24 MAY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The March On Washington Film Festival hosted the D.C. premiere of Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power (Abby Ginzberg, 2021) on Monday night, followed by a post-screening discussion panel featuring Ginzberg, Lee, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del), moderated by White