Ava DuVernay, Laura Poitras, Sam Pollard, and Ben Proudfoot will attend the documentary film festival.
\n\nAva DuVernay‘s “14th” will open the 12th edition of San Francisco’s documentary film festival Doc Stories on Nov. 5.
\n\nThe Netflix film, which premiered at New York Film Festival earlier this month, is one of 10 Oscar-contending feature documentaries included in Doc Stories’ lineup. Others include J.M. Harper’s “Soul Patrol,” Sam Pollard’s “Tutu” and James Marcus Haney’s “Black Sunflowers.”
\n\nThe four-day festival put on by SFFILM will feature 11 short documentaries, including Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Revolution Against Death,” about an aging community and its eccentric efforts to achieve immortality, and Oscar winner Laura Poitras’ “They’re Here,” about ICE agents’ descent on Minneapolis.
\n\n“For over a decade, Doc Stories has embodied the best of what SFFILM and the San Francisco Bay Area champion and celebrate in new documentary work,” said SFF Film’s executive director Anne Lai, “Each film is a wonderful portal into better understanding the world we live in. When daily life can feel quite bruising and fractious, documentaries skillfully encourage us to let our guard down and connect with real-life stories and people… sometimes challenging, often invigorating, and always meaningful.”
\n\nSince its inception, Doc…
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