SFFilm Doc Stories Opens In Bay Area, With Eye On Oscar Documentary Race
deadline.comSFFilm’s 9th Annual Doc Stories festival is getting underway, featuring a distinguished lineup of Oscar-contending nonfiction films.
Little Richard: I Am Everything, directed by Lisa Cortés, screens this afternoon, while the opening night slot goes to another music-driven documentary, Matthew Heineman’s American Symphony, an intimate look at Grammy Award winner Jon Batiste [scroll for full Doc Stories schedule].
SFFilm Doc Stories runs November 2-5 in the City by the Bay, with several of the films available for streaming Nov. 6-7. By design, it’s a tightly curated program. “It’s incredibly competitive and we only have two shorts blocks and the rest are features,” notes SFFilm Director of Programming Jessie Fairbanks. “It’s really an opportunity for us to showcase what we consider to be the best of documentary filmmaking at this point in the season.
We require a Bay Area premiere, so we’re bringing films that no one in the Bay Area has seen before. They weren’t at Mill Valley or at Doclands [in Marin Co.] or at other places.
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