2022 AWARD WINNER SPEECHES + INTROS

Filmmaker Pelin Esmer accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Feature for Queen Lear, in which a theater group comprised of peasant women take their performance of King Lear on the road in rural Turkey.

Filmmaker Pelin Esmer accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Feature for Queen Lear, in which a theater group comprised of peasant women take their performance of King Lear on the road in rural Turkey.

Filmmaker Pelin Esmer accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Feature for Queen Lear, in which a theater group comprised of peasant women take their performance of King Lear on the road in rural Turkey.

SDFF proudly announces the Inaugural presentation of the Jean McGlothlin Documentary Spirit Award to filmmakers and longtime festival supporters, Vivien Hillgrove and James LeBrecht. While...

SDFF is co-Presenting the gorgeously cinematic doc Overland at IndieFest’s launch of the Livable Plant Film Fest, which will stream online from April 22-May 2....

Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is moving to June.  In light of ever changing COVID-19 conditions, and the impact on our industry, audience and bottom line...

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...

See filmmakers’ acceptance speeches: The Whale by Iza Pajak Night Cleaners by Hanna Nordenswan Midnight Family by Luke Lorentzen Full List of SDFF 2020 Selections

Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 2020 scheduled for 26- 29 March is postponed.  We are tremendously sad and disappointed to make this announcement. We recognize that...

The night in March when we postponed SDFF 2020 is now far behind us.  It was just days before Opening Night.  A set of circumstances...