About This Festival
Previous Location
Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center and CinéArts Sequoia|1118 4th St, San Rafael, CA | Map
Everfest's Take
From the Organizer
Presented by the California Film Institute, DocLands Documentary Film Festival brings compelling stories and the provocative insights behind them to Marin County, California, April 30 - May 3, 2020. DocLands is a non-competitive, non-juried, inclusive festival that presents an overall Audience Choice award. It’s dedicated to building connections and partnerships that will invigorate the business and art of nonfiction filmmaking. Through public screenings, engaged conversations and grassroots networking events, DocLands aims to build an active, involved and fully supportive community around documentary film. Its organizational goals include gender equality and zero waste. DocLands showcases documentary film in a variety of genres and with a diversity of content, while exploring three main programming strands nd highlighting films that transcend the traditional definition of the documentary—films that break form in terms of creativity and entertainment. WonderLands lifts our spirits through stories of joy, wonder and possibility. The Great Outdoors transports us outside to truly appreciate, explore and ultimately compel us to save and conserve our environment and the wilds of our one precious and precarious planet. Art of Impact engages and sparks action by sharing stories that open our eyes to the global community and its disparate cultures, politics, personal narratives and biographies.
