SDFF Alumni

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

17 MAY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Two SDFF 2022 selections, Listen To The Beat Of Our Images (Audrey Jean-Baptiste and Maxime Jean-Baptiste, 2020) and Nuisance Bear (Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, 2021) appeared at Vancouver’s 21st annual DOXA Documentary Film Festival last week. Listen To The Beat Of Our Images explores the

10 MAY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Queen of Basketball (Ben Proudfoot, 2021) won this year’s Webby for Best Documentary – Shortform. This is director Ben Proudfoot’s second award in this category, having won previously for That’s My Jazz. The Queen of Basketball, which also won this year’s Oscar® for Best Short Documentary,