From the staff of the Forum: HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Not ready to put our feet up just yet, but we’re counting down the days. Before our Dec. 22 to Jan. 1 closure, however, is our Forum & Friends Holiday Party this Friday, December 8th!

 It’s the night that we get to unwind with all of our nearest and dearest partner orgs — Longhouse Media, The Seattle Globalist, and Tasveer — s…

“Northwest Film Forum presents a grand vision in an intimate setting. Within its small footprint, I enjoy great movies, kooky live performance, smart and funny talk shows and game shows, and the best damn popcorn in the city. Quite simply, I love this place.”
– Nancy Guppy, audience member

Northwest Film Forum invites you to join choreographer-dancer-videographer-acupuncturist Paige Barnes on November 11 at 7pm for an evening of dance videos, live pulse reading, and a discussion of empathy. Barnes has spent the last five years completing a study of Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture. The combination of embodied research and Chinese Medicine in her studies has informed her choreographic practice, resulting in two collections of one-minute dance videos: #danceadayinshanghai and #pulsereadingproject.

From among innumerable wonderful films, after a week and a half of spellbinding screenings and absorbing talks with filmmakers from all over the northwest, we are very happy to announce the honorees of the festival!

“Seattle’s premier PNW-focused film festival has become famous for its imaginative (and sometimes raucous) opening-night fetes. This time, Megan Griffiths, SJ Chiro, Charles Mudede and other local filmmakers discuss their early-career failures on a live stage, followed by a theme costume party.” – Tony Kay, CityArts

Sudeshna Sen is Northwest Film Forum’s new Board President. She has served on the board since 2014, most recently as Vice-President.

Through Sep. 27 at 5pm, 4Culture will be accepting applications from media artists to present at e4c, their storefront gallery in Pioneer Square. Up to 12 artists will be selected to present work that will be displayed for up to one year on their street-facing screens. Each selected artist will receive a $500 honorarium!

The Arts & Innovation 2017 Mayor’s Arts Award is awarded for originality, ingenuity, and resourcefulness within the creative sector, and may include projects that weave together arts and technology, connecting new sectors, creative work in emerging industries, or transformational approaches to established genres.

Thank you from the Forum to the Office of Arts & Culture and the city of Seattle for this honor!…

It’s been a very busy summer.

• Today we launched a beautiful, user-friendly new website featuring a filterable events calendar. Even the font is cinematic – GT Cinetype is a design engineered for a cinema subtitling machine that uses a laser to selectively erase the color layer of the film to make brilliantly white letters.