San Diego International Film Festival Channel

Exclusive Benefit to MySDFilmFest Members

San Diego Intl Film Festival Channel

Watch new film releases on our SDFilmFest Channel every month!

This is your access to international features and documentaries curated by Tonya Mantooth, San Diego International Film Festival CEO/Artistic Director. In keeping with the Festival’s mission, selected films will provide perspectives designed to start conversations on topics that illuminate our shared humanity. Each month will showcase a feature film or documentary and a short, as well as a Q&A or Panel with the Filmmakers and/or other influentials. Films will debut online the third Thursday in the Festival’s Virtual Village.

Access to the Channel is an exclusive benefit to only MySDFilmFest members. Members will receive a link to RSVP themselves for the Channel Screenings each month.

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EVENT DETAILS

DATES
Monthly, Every 3rd Thursday
2021 Dates: February 18, March 18, April 15, May 20, June 17, July 22, August 19, September 23, October 21, November 18, December 16, etc!

VIEWING FILMS
Film available On-Demand from 4:00 PM (Wed) to midnight (Thurs). Then after watching your film join us at 5:30PM for the Live Q&A with the filmmakers. Grab your glass of wine, some apps and settle in for a great conversation and insights from the Filmmakers!

LIVE Q&A SCHEDULE

5:30 – 5:45pm – Mix & mingle with other guests at tables
5:45 – 6:00pm – Short Film Q&A Begins
6:00 – 6:45pm – Feature Film Q&A Begins
6:45 – 7:30pm – Mix & mingle at tables after Q&A ends

2021 MONTHLY SCREENINGS

February 18

February Channel Screening

before/during/after: Jennie Lonergan, a middle-aged NYC theatre actress is forced to figure out the kind of person she wants to portray in real life when her seemingly perfect 15-year marriage comes to an end. Short Film Prior to Screening: Coffee Shop Names.
Live Q&A with Filmmakers: Finnerty Steeves (Writer/Producer/Star), John Ellison Conlee (Lead Cast), Amy Christopher (Casting Director). LEARN MORE

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March 18

March Channel Screening

Through The Glass Darkly: A year after Charlie’s daughter disappears, another girl from Elrod, Georgia goes missing. Convinced there is a connection, Charlie draws suspicion and contempt from local law enforcement and townspeople as she stops at nothing to expose its most devastating and darkest secret.
Short Film Prior to Screening: The Fourth Wall
Live Q&A with Filmmakers: TBA

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April 15

April Festival Channel Screening

Hozho In Beauty We Walk: Hózhó, in beauty we walk ” is a documentary which plunges us into the mysterious world of the centaurs Amerindians: «the dineh of Arizona (People in Navajo). The beauty is around us, in our actions, our words, in our relation to the world, and our relation with horses.
Short Film Prior to Screening: Pant Hoot

Live Q&A with Filmmakers: TBA

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May 20

May Festival Channel Screening

150 Million Magical Sparrows (Foreign Title: Jhalki): In a twinkle of an eye, a life-altering disappearance of her 7-year old kid brother sets Jhalki off on a mission to find him at all costs.

Short Film Prior to Screening: Feeling Through

Live Q&A with Filmmakers: TBA

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June 17

June Festival Channel Screening

Monster (Foreign Title: Arracht): Ireland 1845. As the famine tightens its grip, a fisherman is hunted for crimes he did not commit. Unable to protect his family from death he is subsumed by darkness until a helpless little girl saves him from despair. Short Film Prior to Screening: Pipo & the Blind Love
Live Q&A with Filmmakers: TBA

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