SDFF DOCUMENTARY NEWS

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...