Local Sightings Film Festival 2025: Workshops & Panels

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WORKSHOPS & PANELS at Local Sightings offer meaningful, accessible opportunities for artists to network and learn from one another. The festival catalog also includes special presentations, feature films, short film programs, and panels.

Festival artwork by Levi Hastings


This year's festival is in-person only!

Festival Passes and Individual Tickets will be available when the full festival program is announced in early August!

Tickets are sold on nwfilmforum.org and at the Northwest Film Forum box office (1515 12th Ave, Seattle) on the day of the screening. All passes are sold through nwfilmforum.org.


Workshops & Panels


FESTIVAL PASSES

  • In-Person-Only passes:

    • $100 General Admission
    • $70 Student/Child/Senior
    • $45 Member

Festival Directory

Presented by Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum, the 28th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival is a showcase of creative communities from throughout the Pacific Northwest. The 2025 program, which runs from September 19–28, features a competitive selection of curated short film programs and feature films, inviting regional artists to experiment, break, and remake popular conceptions around filmmaking and film exhibition.

Local Sightings champions emerging and established talent, supports the regional film industry, and promotes diverse media as a critical tool for public engagement.


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Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave,

Seattle, WA 98122

206 329 2629


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