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24 JANUARY 2023 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. Jack Weisman and Gabriela Oslo Vanden’s Nuisance Bear (2021) won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking at the 16th Cinema Eye last week. The awards, given out at an in-person ceremony at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, recognize

17 JANUARY 2023 NEW FILMS & PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS Three SDFF alumni directors have new docs showing at Sundance Film Festival: Davina Pardo’s Judy Blume Forever, about trailblazing children’s author Judy Blume; Luke Lorentzen’s A Still Small Voice, about an aspiring hospital chaplain completing her residency in NYC at the height of the pandemic;

10 JANUARY 2023 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. No Straight Lines (2021), Vivian Kleinman’s doc about queer comics, will make its national television debut on Jan. 23, when it airs as part of PBS’s prestigious Independent Lens. Independent Lens is a long-running PBS series dedicated to independent docs that are intensely personal, yet speak to

3 JANUARY 2023 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. One SDFF 2022 selection and three docs from SDFF alumni filmmakers have been shortlisted for 95th Academy Awards®. Vaunted and visually arresting, Gabriela Oslo Vanden and Jack Weisman’s Nuisance Bear (2021), which recently received an honorable mention for IDA’s Pare Lorentz Award, has been shortlisted

20 DECEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. Two SDFF 2022 docs about women and popular music, Fanny The Right To Rock (Bobbi Jo Hart, 2021) and I’m Wanita (Matthew Walker, 2021), are both eligible for the Oscar® Best Documentary Feature Film award. Fanny The Right To Rock has been celebrated on the

13 DECEMBER 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS + EVENTS. The Pratt In The Hat (Susan Hillary, SDFF2022) is one of 40 films that will make their New Jersey debuts at the 41st New Jersey Film Festival in Spring. The Pratt In The Hat is a documentary short a short about Frances Pratt who shares her

5 DECEMBER 2022 NEW FILMS + PROJECTS FROM SDFF FILMMAKERS The filmmakers behind SDFF 2021 Best Short winner Kapaemāhū—Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, and Daniel Sousa—are collaborating on a new animated short film, Falling, which follows the romantic adventures of a valiant island warrior, a handsome young man and an octopus brought together by