Ava DuVernay's 14th to Open 12th Doc Stories Festival on November 5
SFFILM's four-day documentary festival runs November 5-8 at the Vogue Theatre, with 10 Academy-contending features and 11 shorts.
Ava DuVernay's Netflix film 14th will open the 12th Doc Stories festival on November 5, SFFILM announced. The documentary premiered at the New York Film Festival earlier this month.
The four-day festival runs November 5-8 at the Vogue Theatre. Its lineup includes 10 feature documentaries in the running for Academy Awards, among them J.M. Harper's Soul Patrol, Sam Pollard's Tutu and James Marcus Haney's Black Sunflowers, executive produced by Sean Penn.
Eleven short documentaries will also screen, including Joshua Oppenheimer's The Revolution Against Death and Laura Poitras' They're Here. Doc Stories will host three Doc Talks, among them a 60-minute conversation with Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller about They're Here, according to Variety.
Doc Congress and Schools Program
SFFILM's artist development team will convene Doc Congress, which includes a discussion on AI use in documentaries with Srđan Keča and Rachel Antell. SFFILM's Education team hosts Schools at Doc Stories from November 2-10, with free screenings at SFMOMA and appearances by Oscar-winning filmmakers Vanessa Roth and Ben Proudfoot.
Filmmakers attending include DuVernay, Pollard, Poitras, Luke Lorentzen and Proudfoot. Jeanie Finlay's All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea, featuring fisherman Stan Rennie, is also on the program.
Over two dozen Doc Stories selections have earned Academy Award nominations, and several, including No Other Land and Summer of Soul, have won.
En bref
Quand se déroule le festival Doc Stories ?
La 12e édition se tient du 5 au 8 novembre au Vogue Theatre, et s'ouvre le 5 novembre avec 14th d'Ava DuVernay.
Quels films sont au programme de Doc Stories ?
Dix longs métrages documentaires en lice pour les prix de l'Académie, dont Soul Patrol, Tutu et Black Sunflowers, ainsi que 11 courts métrages.
Qui participe aux Doc Talks ?
Trois Doc Talks sont prévus, dont une conversation de 60 minutes avec Laura Poitras et Rachel Lauren Mueller sur They're Here.