Social Justice Docs

SDFF 2019 Selection, The Silence of Others, Garners Two Emmys

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Tuesday night at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, SDFF 2019 Official Selection, The Silence of Others, won two Emmys. Filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar garnered one Emmy for Best Documentary and a second for Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary.  The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship […]

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Docs + Social Justice: Focus on Race + Representation

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A mode of representation defined by its relationship to reality, documentary has a troubled history in connection with race and racism. It is a genre that for a number of reasons is tightly bound-up with science, and developed alongside, and as evidence for, racial pseudo-science. From the motion studies of Félix-Louis Regnault to the commercial ethnography

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