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DocLands Documentary Film Festival
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Presented by the California Film Institute, DocLands Documentary Film Festival celebrates compelling stories and the provocative insights behind them.
DocLands is a non-competitive, non-juried, inclusive festival that presents an overall Audience Choice award. It’s dedicated to building connections and partnerships that will invigorate the business and art of nonfiction filmmaking. Through public screenings, engaged conversations, and grassroots networking events, DocLands aims to build an active, involved, and fully supportive community around documentary film.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
On this year’s dynamite program: “Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir,” an intimate bio of the San Francisco author of “The Joy Luck Club” that combines home movies, personal photos and interviews; and, “Playing with Sharks,” whose spectacular ocean footage pays tribute to daring Australian underwater photographer, Valerie Taylor. The first to dive with Great Whites without a cage, Taylor shot the thrilling live shark sequences in “Jaws” and spent her life swimming against the tide.
Sura Wood
Contributing Writer, Film
California Film Institute