Mission
Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences.
About Northwest Film Forum
A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events, multidisciplinary performances, and public discussions each year. A comprehensive visual media organization, the Forum offers educational work…
Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) announced today that former Education Director Derek Edamura has been appointed as its new Interim Executive Director. Edamura joins the Forum’s collaborative leadership team of Managing Director Christopher Day and Artistic Director Rana San to share in overseeing the strategic direction and vision of the organization.
Edamura joined the Forum as Education Director in July 2021. Over the previous 13 years, he had worked as a documentary editor, teaching artist, …
Mission
Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences.
About Northwest Film Forum
A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events, multidisciplinary performances, and public discussions each year. A comprehensive visual media organization, th…
Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) is proud to announce Izabel Acevedo as the 2022 recipient of the Lynn Shelton “Of A Certain Age” Grant. Izabel will receive an unrestricted cash award of $20,000 to support her first narrative feature film.
“Today is such a joyful day!” Acevedo said. “I feel seen as a filmmaker, and I’m thrilled and thankful to see now that this project has suddenly taken over my schedule.”
Co-founded by Duplass Brothers Productions and NWFF, and w…
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Mission
Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences.
About Northwest Film Forum
A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events, multidisciplinary performances, and public discussions each year. A comprehensive vi…
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June 21, 2022 — Northwest Film Forum (NWFF)’s Collective Power Fund is excited to announce the fifteen (15) grant recipients for the Collective Power Fund, which is its third installment of funding and support to individual, visual-based artists in King County. The grant is presented as a part of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program.
Our Spring 2022 grants distributed $68,000 in increments of $2,000 – $5,000 – $10,000. Individual artists, who l…
Northwest Film Forum (NWFF)’s 5th Cadence Video Poetry Festival (April 21 – May 1, 2022) has announced seven award-winners from among the 50 artist teams that were selected this year. The annual festival presents screenings, workshops, and discussions on video poetry, and remains the only festival dedicated to the genre in the Pacific Northwest. It is curated by Seattle author Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and media maker Râna San.
Cadence co-curators Râna San and Chels…
Inaugural Year Supported by Butler Family Foundation, with Equipment Support from Foundry10
April 11, 2022 – An initiative of Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum (NWFF), the ACTION! Narrative Apprenticeship Program is now in its first year, generously supported by the Butler Family Foundation, with equipment from Foundry10. The program is geared towards BIPOC…