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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, […]

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3 MAY 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. For Love and Legacy (AK Sandhu, 2021) was an official selection of the Pan African Film Festival in L.A. late last month, and has been seeing some increased press in the wake of those screenings, including a recent Moveable Feast interview with director AK Sandhu. Director AK

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26 APRIL 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. A big congratulations to Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth To Power (Abby Ginzberg, 2020), which has won this year’s 53rd NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary. The film paints a vivid and timely portrait of Congresswoman Barbara Lee (California-D), a steadfast voice for human rights, racial and economic

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19 APRIL 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. Filmmaker David Zucker has just completed the doc Your Friend Memphis, which had its World Premiere in the Documentary Spotlight screening section at last month’s SXSW. An early version of the film was screened as a work in progress under the moniker Memphis Seneca Edoardo Christine for

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12 APRIL 2022 AWARDS. HONORS. FESTIVALS. SPECIAL SCREENINGS. The Silent Shore (Nathalie Giraud and Timothée Corteggiani, 2021) won the Jury Award for Best Short at Full Frame 2022. In the short, also an SDFF 2022 Jury Nominee, fantasy author Pierre Dubois and his wife, Aline, talk about the power of writing, imagination and the deep

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