San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest)

NAME OF FESTIVAL: San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest)

SINCE: 2001

WHERE: San Francisco, California

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

SF DocFest is an annual festival devoted to documentary cinema. Since 2001, this two week-long event has brought the most weird and wonderful aspects of real life to the big screen.

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San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest)

24th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest) Announces Winners – Rebel With A Clause and Flamingo Camp Take Top Prizes

The 24th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest) announced the winners with Audience Award for Best Feature going to Rebel With A Clause and Jury Prize for Best Feature going to Flamingo Camp.

Peaches Goes Bananas
by Marie Losier (courtesy SF DocFest)

24th San Francisco Documentary Festival (SF DocFest) Unveils Lineup

The 24th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest) will screen 85 new non-fiction films, including 22 films local to the Bay Area, from May 29 to June 8, 2025.

‘The Donn of Tiki’ and ‘Art for Everybody’ Win 23rd San Francisco Documentary Festival (SF DocFest) Awards

The 23rd San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest) announced the winning films with The Donn of Tiki winning Audience Award for Best Feature.

Locked Out directed by Kate Davis and Luchina Fisher

Kate Davis and Luchina Fisher’s LOCKED OUT Documentary Follows Black Women Facing Housing Dilemma in Detroit | Trailer

“It’s easy to talk about the importance of equitable housing, but what’s too often missing from the conversation is the actual experiences of those on the ground,” said Locked Out co-director Luchina Fisher.

Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? directed by Yvan Iturriaga, Francisco Nuñez Capriles

26.2 TO LIFE and FANTASTIC NEGRITO to Open 2023 San Francisco DocFest Lineup

San Francisco Documentary Film Festival opens with Christine Yoo’s 26.2 To Life and Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?

Sly Stone performing at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, featured in the documentary SUMMER OF SOUL.

‘Summer of Soul’ to Open, ‘Kid Candidate’ to Close 2021 San Francisco Doc Fest

The 20th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival will open with Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Summer of Soul.

INSERT COIN Kicks off Virtual San Francisco Documentary Festival

Insert Coin directed by Joshua Tsui will kick off the virtual SF DocFest set to take place Sept 3-20, with 46 documentaries.

ON A KNIFE EDGE Coming of Age and Activism Doc on American Indian Young Man to World Premiere at SF DocFest

On A Knife Edge, from director Jeremy Williams, a documentary film five years in the making, follows Guy Dull Knife and his son, George, as George comes of age on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation.

THE WORK, TANIA LIBRE Among 2017 San Francisco Documentary Film Festival Lineup

The San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest) returns May 31 to June 15, 2017, at the Roxie Theater, Vogue Theater and the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission Theater

“CURIOUS WORLDS” “CROCODILE GENNADLY ” Win 2015 SF Documentary Festival

CURIOUS WORLDS: The Art and Imagination of David Deck directed by Olympia Stone is the winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature at 2015 SF Documentary Festival (SF DocFest). CROCODILE GENNADLY (pictured above) directed by Steve Hoover is the winner of Jury Prize for Best Feature. In ‘CURIOUS WORLDS: The Art and Imagination of David Deck’ the curtain is pulled back on one of America’s (and San Francisco’s) most accomplished and original — yet least-known working artists — […]

Robert Greene’s THE ACTRESS to Open SF DocFest

Robert Greene’s THE ACTRESS

The 13th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest) taking place June 5 to 19, 2014, will open on June 5th with Robert Greene’s new film THE ACTRESS, which follows Brandy Burre, an actress who gave up her role in HBO’s “The Wire” to start a family in upstate New York. After playing the role of wife and mother, Burre decided to re-enter the acting business. The film will play as part of a retrospective of Robert Greene’s earlier work.

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