Doclands DocPitch 2024 Winners And Jury Awards Announced . @DEADLINE: .

❤️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: 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:

🎙️ 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:

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 →

⭐️ 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 →

🏆 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.🎟:

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!

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!. 🎟

MAKE A CIRCLE.SUN, MAY 5 🎟:

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!. 📖

Our celebration of documentary film starts this week! 🎉.DOCLANDS 2024. 30 Films, 49 Guests, and 26 Premieres. 🎟 Get your tickets → 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:

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.