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8 NOVEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS A retrospective of documentarian’s Jacqueline Zünd’s work, titled Distance and Intimacy, will be screened at the Hong Kong Arts Center’s Louis Koo Cinema, Nov. 17-20. The program’s title is meant to evoke Zünd’s focus on the intimate lives of people from around the world. The retrospective will include […]

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1 NOVEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS IDA just released its shortlist for 2023 awards, and two SDFF 2022 films, Nathalie Giraud and Timothée Corteggiani’s The Silent Shore and Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman’s Nuisance Bear, are on it, along with docs from SDFF alumni filmmakers Ben Proudfoot (MINK!), Jamie Meltzer (Not Even

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25 OCTOBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Oslo Vanden, 2021) has been nominated for three Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards: Best Cinematography (Gabriela Oslo Vanden, Jack Weisman and Sam Holling), Best Short Documentary (The New Yorker) and Best Science/Nature Documentary (The New Yorker). Nuisance Bear is an unconventional and

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18 OCTOBER 2022 NEW FILMS + PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS Filmmaker Jesse Roesler’s new short, A Voice For The Wild, a kind of sequel to the popular SDFF 2022 short, Breaking Trail (Jesse Roesler, 2021) is showing at the upcoming Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, which will screen films on-site and online Oct. 29-Nov. 6.

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11 OCTOBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Oslo Vanden, 2021), won the juried Best Non-Fiction Short award at the 25th annual Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (sic), which runs through Oct. 23 at the Tokyo Photographic Museum of Art, and will also stream online. The film is

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4 OCTOBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS SDFF 2022 selections, Listen To The Beat Of Our Images (Audrey Jean-Baptiste and Maxime Jean-Baptiste, 2020), Blurring The Color Line (Crystal Lee Kwok, SDFF 2022), For Love and Legacy (AK Sandhu, 2021), and The Art Of Making It (Kelcey Edwards, 2022) are among the official selections of the

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27 SEPTEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Art Of Un-War (2021) will have its European Premiere at the historic Teartro di San Carlo in Naples on Oct. 13, as part of Artecinema, the international contemporary art festival, currently in its 27th year. Filmmaker Maria Niro in toe for the event. Artecinema celebrates films on contemporary art. The

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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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