DOCLANDS

Doclands DocPitch 2024 Winners And Jury Awards Announced @DEADLINE: deadline.com/2024/05/docpit…

❤️Thank you to all our #DocLands2024 attendees, filmmakers, CAFILM Members, sponsors, and staff for making this year's festival a success. Y'all are the best! 📷Find more photos: bit.ly/3UsZGv6 With @cafilminstitute

As part of our #DocLandsEducation, filmmakers Luca Capponi (SMALL STEPS, BIG FUTURE) & Kristal Sotomayor (DON’T CRY FOR ME ALL YOU DRAG QUEENS) joined for a student talk about documentary filmmaking as a career and the drive to tell compelling stories. ⭐️Thanks Kristal and Luca!

Documentaries have the power to make a lasting impression, making an impact on viewers and possibly in ways we can't quite measure. Photos from THE STRIKE, A SYMPHONY OF TINY LIGHTS, 7 BEATS PER MINUTE, 500 DAYS IN THE WILD 🔎 #DocLands2024: bit.ly/3UsZGv6

🎙️ A big thank you to our DocTalk panel of filmmakers! We loved your advice on collaboration, fair compensation, completing a film—and how to make it in this crazy world of documentary film! #DocLands2024 #filmmakers #filmcommunity @joebillmunoz @lucasguilkey @yuqiii

The world premiere of FROM HERE/FROM THERE (DE AQUÍ/DE ALLÁ) was an out-of-this-world event! 💫 Find more photos: bit.ly/3UsZGv6

Photos from the convo conversation with both directors, producer REBEKAH FERGUSSON, and the Early Childhood Educators featured in the film.

🏆 The DocLands 2024 Audience Choice Award goes to directors JEN BRADWELL and TODD BOEKELHEIDE for MAKE A CIRCLE— a rallying cry for California's childcare system in crisis.

The onstage convo and behind-the-scenes details can truly provide a richer insight into the filmmaking process. Thank you, filmmakers! Photos include DAUGHTERS, HAPPY CLOTHES, MARRIED TO COMICS, WAY OF THE SHEPHERD 🔎More photos → bit.ly/3UsZGv6

⭐️ What a gorgeous evening to kick off #DocLands2024! Thank you to all our Opening Night SKYWALKER film + party attendees—friends, staff, sponsors and filmmakers. 🔎Find more photos in the #DocLands2024 Photo Gallery → bit.ly/3UsZGv6

🏆 The #DocPitch Award results are in! $45k Audience Award Recipient is THE CO-OP: THE KIDS OF DORIE MILLER + $40k Industry Award Recipient is UNTITLED LORENA + $5k to each remaining three finalists Congrats to all, we look forward to seeing these projects come to fruition!

🎉 Join us for Closing Night film 500 DAYS IN THE WILD convo + reception! 🏕️ This incredible documentary promises to leave you in awe. With director Dianne Whelan & protagonist Louisa Robinson SAT, MAY 4 🎟: bit.ly/4aAgzuh

Seize the day! Saturday at DocLands is a packed lineup. Be sure to get these on your watch list... 🎨 THIS WORLD IS NOT MY OWN ✏️ NOT JUST A GOOF 🐺 LIVING WITH WOLVES 🤖 I HOPE THIS HELPS 💥 MARRIED TO COMICS Each with filmmaker guests! 🎟 Get tickets! bit.ly/3PHcPPq

DocLands Education has begun! FROM HERE/ FROM THERE (DE AQUÍ/DE ALLÁ) had a screening for @tamhigh students, sharing the importance of community organizing for better immigration policies. With dir. Marlene “Mo” Morris, prod. Nicole Solis-Sison & subject Luis Cortes Romero.

Friday is our first full day at #DocLands2024! Don't miss... 🙂 AGENT OF HAPPINESS 👯 DAUGHTERS 🤝 FROM HERE/FROM THERE (DE AQUÍ/DE ALLÁ) 👗 HAPPY CLOTHES: A FILM ABOUT PATRICIA FIELD Note: Each will also include a convo w/ filmmaker guests! 🎟 bit.ly/3PHcPPq

MAKE A CIRCLE SUN, MAY 5 🎟: bit.ly/4azM1sv

Thank you @sfchronicle for highlighting MAKE A CIRCLE, a doc about the CA's childcare system in crisis. See the film with directors JEN BRADWELL, TODD BOEKELHEIDE and other special guests in convo at DocLands! 📖bit.ly/44oRTCR

Our celebration of documentary film starts this week! 🎉 DOCLANDS 2024... 30 Films, 49 Guests, and 26 Premieres 🎟 Get your tickets → bit.ly/3PHcPPq THU May 2 - SUN May 5

DocShorts filmmakers joining in person will include AKIRA BOCH, LUCA CAPPONI, TADASHI NAKAMURA, MYAH OVERSTREET, MARIA LUISA SANTOS and KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR. Check out the program here: bit.ly/3J31oxI

We wanted to give a shoutout to the DOCSHORTS filmmakers! We are reminded that shorts are a powerful medium—and not to be underestimated! This free screening, presented by CAFILM Education, Tay Radio, and the Multicultural Center of Marin, filled up in no time at all. ...