19th SF Documentary Festival Wrapped
Posted by sfindie September 20, 2020
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2020 San Francisco Documentary Award Winners
2020 DocFest Vanguard Award: SARA ARCHAMBAULT
Audience Award for Best Feature: BLEEDING AUDIO
Audience Award for Best Short: BENEATH THE INK
Jury Prize for Best Feature: THE LAST BLOCKBUSTER
Jury Prize for Best Short: CASTELLS
SF DocFest presented a virtual festival that took place Sept 3-20. The full program and festival info can be found HERE.
We believe very strongly in the value of shared experiences. We postponed the June festival when the lockdown began and hoped that by fall we’d be able to present the films at the Roxie Theater as usual.
But when it became apparent in August that this was looking increasingly unlikely, we found a way to share these great films with Bay Area documentary fans online – and we attempted to make attending the festival as festive as possible. We presented daily live online Q&As with filmmakers and audiences had the ability to watch most films any time and from anywhere during the festival dates. We made sure to include the regular festival feature The Bad Art Gallery (this time in a virtual gallery) and a new event we called The Filmmaker Feud Game Show.
The festival featured 46 new documentaries available to watch over a 17 day period, along with live or pre-recorded Q&As for all films plus some SF IndieFest/DocFest special events.
-The SF DocFest Team: Jeff Ross, Chris Metzler, Jennifer Junkyard Morris, Meghan Ryan and Fay Dearborn
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