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August Alumni Roundup

    This month, we’re excited to spotlight some incredible updates from our Full Frame Documentary Film Festival alumni, including several festival award-winners that are now available to stream and an interview with the the team behind the powerful documentary SUGARCANE. Dive into the latest news to see how these talented filmmakers are shaping the conversation and captivating viewers everywhere.

    NOW STREAMING

    DAUGHTERS still with laurelsDAUGHTERS, which won the 2024 Sally Robinson Audience Award at Full Frame, is now streaming on Netflix.

    In this film directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton, four young girls are preparing for a Daddy Daughter Dance with their fathers, all of whom are incarcerated in Washington, DC. For Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana, this may be the last time they will be able to hug their fathers for the foreseeable future. Watch it >>

    Still image from STUD COUNTRY with film laurelsSTUD COUNTRY is now available to stream on the Los Angeles Times. 

    Lina Abascal and Alexandra Kern’s film STUD COUNTRY documents the largest queer country western line dancing night in America, continuing a little-known fifty-plus year tradition in Los Angeles. Despite its success and fiercely committed community, due to gentrification, the event is set to lose its venue.

    STUD COUNTRY had its world premiere at Full Frame and won the 2024 Jury Award for Best Short, an Academy Award® qualifying prize; the winning film may be eligible to submit for Oscar® consideration. Watch it >>

    Still image from ABYSSALABYSSAL by Alejandro Alonso won the John Hope Franklin Humanities Award at Full Frame 2022 and is now available to stream on True Story. 

    Raudel lives and works in a ship-breaking yard in the West of Cuba. Haunted by a strange childhood memory, he is on the lookout for ghostly presences. Watch it >>

     

    HEADLINES

    Still image from SUGARCANE with Full Frame award laurelsFilmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie spoke with NPR’s David Folkenflik about their documentary, SUGARCANE, which won the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award at Full Frame 2024.

    When unmarked graves are discovered near the grounds of a former residential school for Indigenous children near British Columbia’s Sugarcane reserve, the Williams Lake First Nation community launches an investigation to expose this painful history.  Hear the interview >>

     

    August 22, 2024