EXCLUSIVE: SFFILM’s prestigious Doc Stories is set to welcome a slew of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmakers to its 10th anniversary event next month, along with industry heavyweights Keri Putnam, Laura Kim, Carrie Lozano, and Justine Nagan.

The documentary festival, which runs from October 17-20 in San Francisco, unveiled its full lineup this morning, highlighted by new work from Kevin Macdonald, Ben Proudfoot, Raoul Peck, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, and Pedro Kos, as well as a classic from Amy Berg about a singer who stunned San Francisco with her talent more than 50 years ago. [Scroll for the full program] Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, and Oscar winner for One Day in September) opens the festival with One to One: John and Yoko, co-directed by Sam Rice-Edwards, “which chronicles John and Yoko’s musical, personal, artistic, social, and political world set against the backdrop of a turbulent era in American history.” The closing night film belongs to Suburban Fury, directed by Robinson Devor, “the story of Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford on a crowded sidewalk in San Francisco’s Union Square in September of 1975.

Moore holds the center of this nonfiction drama which Devor has created with the feel of a 1970s thriller.” Jessie Fairbanks, director of programming for SFFILM which puts on both the San Francisco International Film Festival and Doc Stories, notes that Doc Stories “is now considered an essential part of fall exhibition landscape.” Heading into the event’s 10th anniversary, she says, “We all just feel really proud and grateful to every filmmaker that has believed in this showcase and that has shared their work with us and to the audience that keeps showing up.

SFFILM’s Doc Stories To Showcase John And Yoko Documentary, Janis Joplin Film, ‘Suburban Fury,’ ‘Ernest Cole’ And More At 10th Anniversary Event

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