Year-Round Programming
In addition to our annual film festival, Northwest Film Forum presents year-round programming for young people, including award-winning features and shorts, historically important children's films, director retrospectives, documentaries from around the globe, interdisciplinary programs, and hands-on filmmaking workshops.
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AUGUST 31 – NOVEMBER 23, EVERY SUNDAY AT NOON
The Sprocket Society’s Secret Sunday Matinee
This fall, NWFF revives the classic weekend matinee! Every Sunday afternoon, thrill to a new cliffhanger episode of Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe, perhaps the greatest movie serial ever made! PLUS a different classic (or just fun) feature every week! What features? That’s the secret! But count on high adventure, monsters, distant worlds, and special surprises! PLUS cartoons and shorts! What better way to spend a rainy autumn Sunday? One–day and series memberships in the Secret Matinee Club are available.
Series passes $25/NWFF members, $65/general, $130/Family pass (good for 4 people)
All films are suitable for ages 8 and up, with the exception of our October 19 program, which is for ages 10 and up. Please contact ryan@nwfilmforum.org if you have specific questions.
Special Events
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NOVEMBER 1 – 2, SATURDAY & SUNDAY AT 5PM
Jazz Animation From The Hubley Studio
(John and Faith Hubley, USA, 1957–75, 35mm, 70 min)
Beginning in the 1950s, the wonderfully imaginative and innovative films of independent animators John and Faith Hubley broke from traditional styles of animation and addressed important issues with intelligence, passion and humor. Their poetic sensibility and whimsical, impressionistic visual style (more reminiscent of painters Klee and Miro than Disney) lent itself perfectly to jazz music. "There’s something about jazz’s bending of time within a rigid format that also applies to animation," Faith Hubley once observed. "That’s why they work so well together. It’s a marriage made in heaven." This special program highlights the best of the Hubleys’ jazz films, featuring their collaborations with such musicians and composers as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Quincy Jones, Benny Carter, and others.
Appropriate for all ages.
Past Programming
Past year-round programs through Northwest Film Forum have included:
Wild Beauty: The Films of Carroll Ballard
Duma, The Black Stallion, Never Cry Wolf
Through the Eyes of a Child: Three Films from Iran
Bazi, Where is the Friend's Home, The White Balloon
Green Greatness: The Best of Gumby, Pokey and Art Clokey
Shorts celebrating Gumby's 50th Anniversary
Muppet Mania
The Muppet Movie, Labyrinth
Swashbuckler Marathon
The Sea Hawk, The Crimson Pirate, and King Solomon's Mines
Our Stories, Our Heroes
To Kill a Mockingbird, Stars in My Crown
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
Featuring a new score composed and performed live by Danny Barnes and Robbie Fulks. Instrumentation included banjo, tuba, electric and acoustic guitar, percussion, violin, viola, and harmonica.
Peter Pan (1924)
Featuring a new score composed and performed live by Leslie McMichael on Celtic, electric, and concert harp.
Serious Playtime: Tati Turns 100
Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Jour De Fete, Mon Oncle, Playtime, Traffic
From the Tsars to the Stars: Classic Russian Sci-Fi
Cosmic Voyage, Heaven's Call, Planet of Storms, Amphibian Man, To the Stars by Hard Ways
Dream Screen: Three by Miyazaki
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away
The Kids of Widney High
The world-renowned Kids of Widney High, a group of young adults with developmental disabilities who write, record and perform their own unique brand of rock music, performed live and presented a program of short films