When the nominees for the 44th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards were announced last week, the list included six films screened at SDFF from 2021-23, and two more projects made by alumni filmmakers. This year’s nominees were selected from 2,300 submissions that made their broadcast or streaming premiere in 2022. In a nomination field […]
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Hear Interviews with 2023 Filmmakers & Festival Directors Matter Of Mind: My ALS & Healing In The Open Directors on KWMR’s Airwaves w/ R. Gallyot Matter Of Mind: My ALS director Anna Moot-Levin on KWMR‘s Airwaves w/ Raul Gallyot Veteran SDFF director Anna Moot-Levin discusses Matter Of Mind: My ALS, an intimate portrait of three
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DATE: Thursday, March 16, 2023 5:30 PM PDLOCATION: Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA When Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival kicks off its 16th season with an Opening Night celebration on March 16, Sebastopol will once again be teeming with filmmakers, film patrons and energized voices from around the world. Hosted by Sebastopol Center for
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DATE: Saturday, March 17, 3 p.m.LOCATION: Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA Of the decisions a director makes as they bring a film to life, the choice of style is paramount. For documentarians, this is doubly true, as style is bound up with how the reality captured in raw footage will take shape on-screen.
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DATE: Saturday, March 18, 11 a.m.LOCATION: Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA Reaching the Summit: Insider Tips On Navigating Documentary’s Rocky Terrain is a panel discussion about the state of the industry, giving practical information and perspectives from across the field on funding, producing and distributing non fiction in 2023. The discussion will be
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Follows Screening of Vaunted New Doc El Equipo (The Team) DATE: Saturday, March 18, 4:15 p.m.LOCATION: Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA El Equipo, the fifth feature film by two-time Emmy® nominated director Bernardo Ruiz (The Infinite Race), will be screened at 4:15 p.m. on March 18 as part of the 16th annual Sebastopol
Matter Of Mind: My ALS and Healing In The Open Directors on KWMR’s Airwaves w/ R. Gallyot Tues. 3/7, 9 a.m. – KWMR – Matter Of Mind: My ALS director Anna Moot-Levin on Airwaves w/ Raul GallyotVeteran SDFF director Anna Moot-Levin discusses Matter Of Mind: My ALS, an intimate portrait of three people living with
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OutBeat’s Gary Carnivele interviewed SDFF Co-Director Jane Winslow about this year’s fest, the films being shown in collaboration with OUTwatch, and other docs with LGBTQIA+ themes. SDFF 2023 OUTwatch Films Other SDFF 2023 LGBTQIA+ Themed Docs The 16th Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival runs March 16-19, 2023, followed by a Virtual Festival March 20-29, which features
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Jesse Rudoy’s film Dusty and Stones kicks off the 2023 festival, opening the March 12 Curtain Raiser Event. on Sunday, March. 12 Doug Jayne talks with Rudoy about the most famous Country Music duo in Swaziland – “Dusty” Simelane and Linda “Stones” Msibi, aka Dusty & Stones. Listen to the interview on NorCal Public Media’s
The first Bay Area Media Makers Summit (BAMMS) will take place June 3-5 in San Francisco and Oakland. SDFF will be among the local film festivals, organizations, funders and filmmakers gathering at the summit with the aim of cultivating a collaborative, healthy and inclusive Bay Area filmmaking community. The summit will be comprised of a
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