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SDF docs @ FULL FRAME!
Congrats to all the SDF-sponsored projects in Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2019! ALWAYS IN SEASON KIFARU MOSSVILLE SANTUARIO YOU GAVE ME A SONG The post SDF docs @ FULL FRAME! appeared first...
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6th Annual Artists Convening – Sept 6 – 8, 2019
Master Class with Sabrina Schmidt Gordon Sabrina is a documentary filmmaker and impact producer/strategist. She will discuss her career as an award-winning creative producer, editor and director,...
View ArticleSDF Holiday Party 2017!
The wrap party is a time-honored tradition throughout cinematic history, and on Tuesday, December 19th, Southern Documentary Fund is calling on our friends and supporters to join us in calling 2017 a...
View ArticleFRESH DOCS SCREENING – FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 – FULL FRAME THEATER
The Center for Documentary Studies and the Southern Documentary Fund are pleased to present a free screening of In the Executioner’s Shadow, a feature documentary film by Maggie Stogner and Richard...
View ArticleSDF is Seeking a New Executive Director!
THE OPPORTUNITY The next Executive Director will join a dynamic organization at a pivotal moment in its venerable history. Southern Documentary Fund recently expanded its programming and grantmaking....
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MEET The new Interim Director + Team!
Special News from the Board of Directors of SDF: “We are thrilled to announce Jenny Slattery as the Interim Executive Director. We couldn’t be happier to have Jenny with her depth of foundational and...
View ArticleSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND 2019 GRANT AWARD WINNERS
The Southern Documentary Fund Selected 20 Documentary Film Projects to Receive Grants Totaling $150,000 DURHAM, NC (December 23, 2019) The Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) is proud to announce the...
View ArticleREGISTER NOW FOR SDF GRANT INFORMATION SESSION- MAY 12 & 16, 2020
If you’re a Southern Maker interested in applying for the Southern Documentary Fund’s Emergency Research and Development Grant, we encourage you to attend one of our information sessions led by SDF...
View ArticleSDF Statement of Solidarity
The Southern Documentary Fund has a long history of supporting diverse makers who tell stories that promote racial and social justice. In this period of tragedy and turmoil, we join our voices with...
View Article2020 SDF Emergency Research & Development Grant Awardees
Southern Documentary Fund Announces Awardees of Emergency Research & Development Grants Durham, North Carolina. July 15, 2020 – The Southern Documentary Fund (SDF), a nonprofit arts organization...
View ArticleSaltwata Vibes: Sankofa Seeds from Geechee Roots (working title)
Donate Saltwata follows the brother and sister – children of Ron and Natalie Daise, from popular 1990s Nickelodeon TV show “Gullah Gullah Island”. Chronicling their generation of Gullah Geechee,...
View ArticleCaptain Scott B and the Ingredients for a Magical Life (working title)
DONATE Betsy’s father, Scott, was her best friend. When he dies following a 4-year dance with cancer, Betsy finds herself lost in dark sadness unlike any she’d known, until her dad’s old home movies...
View ArticleMending Walls
Donate In Richmond, VA public art is one of the city’s biggest assets in the downtown area. As a city with one of the largest collections of public art in the United States we now have the unique...
View ArticleThe Lost Cause: A New Southern History
Donate The Lost Cause: A New Southern History is a feature documentary about the unexpected removal of Confederate monuments in Raleigh, North Carolina from the capitol grounds. The film will be told...
View ArticleMomma
Some say that grief is love that has nowhere to go. This film paints the image that grief is an everlasting love that’s begging to be repurposed. This feature-length documentary intimately displays a...
View ArticleThis Belongs to Us
The practice of brewing beer is as old as human civilization. It is a craft that was originally practiced by women in parts of the world we now refer to as Africa and the East, but looking at the...
View ArticleRockfish Stew
We are a documentary company that employs a process and style that poet Ross Gay calls “lyric research”, in reference to Sam Stephenson’s book, Gene Smith’s Sink. Gay writes, “It’s a wandering and...
View ArticleSDF Receives South Arts Resilience Fund Grant to Upgrade Technology and...
The Southern Documentary Fund today announced receipt of a grant from The South Arts Resilience Fund in the amount of $30,000. With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the fund aims to build...
View ArticleMeet Kristy Breneman, SDF’s New Artist Development Director
Durham, NC – November 13, 2020 – The Southern Documentary Fund is proud to announce the appointment of Kristy Breneman in the role of Artist Development Director. Kristy will oversee the...
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SDF Rebrands With New Logo And Website
Over the past year, the Southern Documentary Fund has worked to re-align resources and programs to better serve our Southern makers. We’ve awarded 15 Emergency Research & Development grants, hosted...
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