Eliza Hemenway founded the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival in 2006 with a vision to create a "filmmaker's film festival," and to bring world-class documentary films to West Sonoma County.

In addition to founding and directing SDFF, Hemenway is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has screened in numerous international film festivals and arts venues. She was an independent-film reviewer for NPR's KRCB-FM, and has created multimedia content professionally for organizations including the Redwood Empire Food Bank, Salvation Army National Headquarters, City of Santa Rosa, and Sonoma State University. She currently lives in Washington, D.C. where she works as the Media Services and Digital Learning Manager for the Conway School of Nursing. She also serves on the selection committee for DC/DOX film festival.

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