Plus Best Short Films in Documentary, Feature, Animation, Experimental & Social Impact Categories!

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Northwest Film Forum (NWFF)’s 22nd Annual Local Sightings Film Festival (September 20-29, 2019) once again showcased the growing complexity of creative communities in the Pacific Northwest. Featuring a competitive selection of curated shorts and feature film programs, its 2019 edition invited regional artists to experiment, break,…

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Seattle, WA – October 1, 2019 – Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) announces the next residency show with Simone Pin Productions, which brings curated burlesque performances to NWFF. Simone Pin Productions is a west coast-based, women of color-owned production company, co-founded by local Seattle burlesque dancers Shay Simon…

Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings 2019 is happy to welcome our three jurors for Local Sightings Film Festival 2019, taking place September 20-29! Over the course of 10 boundary-pushing days, the festival showcases the growing complexity of creative communities in the Pacific Northwest, by uplifting new talent, providing educational opportunities for youth and adults, supporting the regional film industry, and promoting dive…

Northwest Film Forum’s 22nd Annual Local Sightings Film Festival 2019 saw shifts in its programming model, which drew upon the varied expertise of a number of individuals, with the hopes of providing a more democratized and balanced curatorial process. Over the course of 10 boundary-pushing days (September 20-29), the festival showcases the growing complexity of creative communities in the Pacific Northwest, by uplifting new tal…

by Jackie Moffitt

It’s not common to encounter a movie which challenges our very concept of what comprises a unified feature film. Yet Mariano Llinás’ 2018 magnum opus, La Flor, does exactly this. Divided into 4 equilateral slabs of narrative for screening purposes, La Flor

22ND ANNUAL EDITION CELEBRATES PACIFIC NW FILM & MEDIAMAKERS FROM SEPTEMBER 20–29, 2019

Programmed closely with community partners as curators, Northwest Film Forum’s 22nd Annual Local Sightings Film Festival invites regional artists to experiment, break, and remake popular conceptions around filmmaking and film exhibition.

Over the course of 10 boundary-pushing days, the f…

Four Seattle film organizations (Northwest Film Forum [NWFF], SIFF, Grand Illusion Cinema, and The Beacon) announce a robust retrospective of the prolific Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami between September 14 – October 6, 2019.

Over four weekends, all four art house theaters will join forces to co-present 8 film programs spanning the great Iranian master’s career, including the Koker Trilogy (Where is the Friend’s House?, And Life Goes On, Through the Olive Trees).

Northwest Film Forum and SEATTLE are showing up for

Announcing a 1-minute dance film challenge!

The Dance/Film Residency is offered by Northwest Film Forum and Velocity Dance Center to an artistic team selected through this year’s Dance Film Challenge, which is a submission category of Local Sightings Film Festival 2019. Teams and individuals are invited to submit one dance film up to 60 seconds in length