A man strikes up a friendship with a homeless man while working on a short film with the intent to humanize the under-represented and misunderstood population of San Francisco.
Tag Archives: Documentary
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) [Comic Book Month 2025]
The life and career of Christopher Reeves through home videos and professional footage until his untimely accident and beyond.
Poro College in Moving Pictures (1927)
Annie Malone is mostly unknown today, but during the first quarter of the 20th century she had a profound impact on the empowerment of African-American women. Malone was a business tycoon, style trend setter, educator, philanthropist and role model. A documentary film made in 1927 presented an in-depth celebration of her extraordinary career – but the film’s disappearance mirrors Malone’s absence from most historical texts.
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CAT TOWN, USA [SIFF2025]
Bruce and Terry Jenkins run a unique sanctuary for elder cats in Jonathan Napolitano’s cozy documentary Cat Town, USA.
SUBURBAN FURY [SIFF2025]
Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford outside of a hotel in 1975. Fifty years later, she tells her story in Seattle-based Robinson Devor’s gripping documentary, Suburban Fury.
UNCLICKABLE [SIFF2025]
A former tech CEO gathers software designers to test how digital advertising fraud works in Babis Makridis’s documentary Unclickable.
STARMAN [SIFF2025]
Gentry Lee, a NASA engineer and sci-fi author, leads a documentary of the history of the search for alien life and the love of space through the lens of his life in director Robert Stone’s fascinating documentary Starman.