Special Guests for SIFF 2024

One of the best things about the Seattle International Film Festival is hearing directly from those involved in the film's creation! Here's a list of guests scheduled to attend, which we'll keep up-to-date. Don't miss these guests in person at their screenings for Q&As moderated by our programmers.

399: Queen of the Tetons
Director Elizabeth Leiter scheduled to attend.

Admissions Granted
Co-directors Hao Wu and Miao Wang scheduled to attend.

All We Carry
Director Cady Voge scheduled to attend.

The Black Sea
Co-Directors Crystal Moselle and Derrick Harden scheduled to attend.

Black Box Diaries
Director Shiori Ito scheduled to attend.

Bob Trevino Likes It
Director Tracie Laymon scheduled to attend.

Bring Them Home
Co-Directors Ivy and Ivan Macdonald and Director/Producer Daniel Glick scheduled to attend.

Chasing Ice
Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Writer Jeff Orlowski-Yang and Co-Director Sarah Keo scheduled to attend.

Chasing Time
Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Writer Jeff Orlowski-Yang and Co-Director Sarah Keo scheduled to attend.

Critical Zone
Actor Shirin Abedinirad scheduled to attend.

The Etilaat Roz
Producer Zaki Daryabi and Subject Taqi Daryabi scheduled to attend.

Fish War
Executive Producers Ed Johnstone & Justin Parker, Producer Kari Neumeyer, and Producer and Nisqually Chairman Willie Frank III scheduled to attend.

Food Roots
Director Michele Josue and Producer Mike McNamara scheduled to attend.

Ghostlight
Co-Directors Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson scheduled to attend.

Gloria!
Director Margherita Vicario scheduled to attend.

Girls Will Be Girls
Director/Writer Shuchi Talati scheduled to attend.

Grandpa Guru
Director Silvio Mirošničenko, Editor Doris Dodig, Screenwriter/Producer Sanjin Hasanefendic, and Subjects Val Kiossovski and Gino Jevdjevic scheduled to attend.

Hesitation Wound
Director/Writer/Producer Selman Nacar scheduled to attend.

Holy Mother
Director Antonio Chavarrias scheduled to attend.

Hollywoodgate
Producer Odessa Rae and Impact Producer Mia Bruno scheduled to attend.

Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film
Director Daphne Baiwir and Producer Sebastien Cruz scheduled to attend.

I Saw the TV Glow
Director Jane Schoenbrun scheduled to attend the May 10 screening.

I'm Just Here for the Riot
Co-Producer Mike Johnston scheduled to attend.

Igualada
Director Juan Mejia scheduled to attend.

Iron Mask
Director Kim Sung Hwan scheduled to attend.

A Journey in Spring
Director/Producer Ping Wen Wang and Director Tzu-Hui Peng scheduled to attend

Love Machina
Director Peter Sillen scheduled to attend.

Memories of a Burning Body
Director/Writer Antonella Sudasassi Furniss scheduled to attend.

Merchant Ivory
Director/Producer/Writer Stephen Soucy scheduled to attend.

Moloka'i Bound
Director Alika Tengan, Producer Nina Yang Bongiovi, Actor Kawika Kahiapo scheduled to attend.

Porcelain War
Co-Director Brendan Bellomo; Co-Director/Subject Slava Leontyev; Subjects Anya Stasenko and Frodo the dog; and Producers Paula DuPre' Pesmen, Olivia Ahnemann, and Aniela Sidorska scheduled to attend.

The Queen of My Dreams
Director Fawzia Mirza scheduled to attend.

The Quiet Maid
Director/Writer/Producer Miguel Faus scheduled to attend May 12 screening.

Rainier: A Beer Odyssey
Director Isaac Olsen scheduled to attend.

RATS!
Directors/Writers Maxwell Nalevansky and Carl Fry scheduled to attend.

Resynator
Director Alison Tavel scheduled to attend.

The Ride Ahead
Producer Erica Lupinacci scheduled to attend, and join Directors Dan and Samuel Habib for a virtual Q&A.

Saturn Return
Director Pol Rodriguez scheduled to attend.

Seagrass
Director Meredith Hama Brown scheduled to attend.

Sing Sing
Director Greg Kwedar; Executive Producers/Actors John Whitfield and Clarence Maclin; and Actors Sean San Jose, Jon Adrian Velazquez, and Sean Johnson scheduled to attend.

Sono Lino
Director/Producer Jacob Patrick, Executive Producer Jacopo Vecchiato, and Editor Lano Medina scheduled to attend.

So Unreal
Producer/Editor/Sound Designer Benjamin Shearn scheduled to attend.

Standing Above the Clouds
Director/Producer Jalena Keane-Lee, Subject Kapulei Flores and Producer Amber Espinosa-Jones scheduled to attend.

Stress Positions
Director Theda Hammel scheduled to attend.

Susan Feniger. Forked
Director Liz Lachman, Producer Lisa Donmall-Reeve, and subject Susan Feniger scheduled to attend the May 15 screening.

Subterranean
Producer Jenny Rustemeyer scheduled to attend.

Sugarcane
Director Julian Brave Noisecat scheduled to attend.

Terrestrial Verses
Director Alireza Khatami scheduled to attend.

Thelma
Writer and Director Josh Margolin, Producers Zoë Worth and Chris Kaye, and Actors June Squibb and Fred Hechinger scheduled to attend.

The Tundra Within Me
Director Sara Margrethe Oskal and Actors Berit Anne Okemi and Risten Anine Guap scheduled to attend.

Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox
Director/Writer Stimson Snead scheduled to attend.

The Uncertain Detective
Director/Producer Gregg Lachow scheduled to attend.

Ultimate Citizens
Director Francine Strickwerda scheduled to attend.

We Can Be Heroes
Co-Directors Alex Simmons and Carina Wong scheduled to attend.

We Strangers
Director Anu Valia scheduled to attend May 18 screening.

WHY DINOSAURS?
Director/Writer/Producer Tony Pinto scheduled to attend both screenings. Director/Writer/Producer James Pinto and Producer Tara Pinto scheduled to attend May 18 screening.

Short Films

A.A.
Director Auden Bui and Producer Gates Bradley scheduled to attend.

Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy
Director Khozy Rizal scheduled to attend.

Black Silk
Director Patrick Michael, Producer/Editor Josh Akin, and Co-Producer Fabby Lazo scheduled to attend.

Can
Director Kailee McGee, Producer JP Bolles, Editor Richie Costales, and Production Designer Rose Curry scheduled to attend.

Carnívora
Director Felipe Vargas, Composer Alex McGrath, and Writer Roberto Saieh Yidi scheduled to attend.

Cetology
Director Cathrine Bisley scheduled to attend.

CHOMP
Writers/Directors Suki-Rose and Cricket Arrison scheduled to attend.

Cycles
Co-Directors Tony Oswald and Pisie Hochheim scheduled to attend.

Dark Mommy
Director Courtney Eck, Producer James Strayer, and Co-Producer/Co-Art Director Kate Brankin scheduled to attend.

The Day the Sky Darkened
Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Writer/Editor Barış Kuzey Yılmaz, and Actors Sule Yilmaz and Onur Yilmaz scheduled to attend.

Detox
Director Alex Hanno, Actor Caitlin Morris, and Writer/Producer Wes Hopper scheduled to attend.

Dream Creep
Director Carlos Lopez and Actor Sidney Hunt scheduled to attend.

Eileithyia
Director Dan Fromhart scheduled to attend. 

Female Captive
Co-Directors Brit Crawshaw and Josh Hayward scheduled to attend.

Golden Child
Director Hannah Levin, Producer Gracie Catanzarite, and Director of Photography Alexandra Ali scheduled to attend.

Her First Time
Director, Writer, Producer, Star, and Editor Mikaela Brown-Cest and Co-Director Malia Aniston scheduled to attend.

I am the Nature
Director Taliesin Black-Brown scheduled to attend.

I Think I'd Like to Stay
Director Brianna B Murphy and Actor Isla Vidal scheduled to attend.

Imogene
Director Katie Blair scheduled to attend.

In the Garden of Tulips
Director Julia Elihu and Producer Aaron Lemle scheduled to attend.

Is This Now the Time I Should Let You Go?
Director Yi-Chin Tsai scheduled to attend.

The Influencer
Director Lael Rogers scheduled to attend.

Janelle Niles: Inconvenient
Director Kelly Zemnickis and Subject Janelle Niles scheduled to attend.

Lady Parts
Director Ariel McCleese and Producer Julian Higgens scheduled to attend.

Make Me a Pizza
Director/Writer/Producer Talia Shea Levin scheduled to attend.

Meet Me at the Creek
Director Loren Waters scheduled to attend.

Might Not Wanna Wake Up
Director Lxandra and Executive Producer Nita Rehtonnen scheduled to attend.

Newman's Block
Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Writer/Editor Hudson Hillin, Producer Mavin Hillin, and Actor Chris Hillin scheduled to attend.

No Silence
Director Gina Crow and Executive Producer Paulette Varelas scheduled to attend.

Pipe Dreams
Director Christina Woo and Composer Emiy Tschirhart scheduled to attend.

Qulleq
Director Aka Hansen scheduled to attend.

The Queen Vs. Texas
Co-Directors Emil Lozda and Raymond Yancey scheduled to attend.

Relationship to Patient
Director Caroline Creaghead scheduled to attend.

The Rainbow Bridge
Director Dimitri Simakis, Costume Designer Natalia Zuniga, Cinematographer Seann Bryan, and Producer Michael Scott scheduled to attend.

Trial
Director Tommy Heffernan scheduled to attend.

Untitled, Jackson Heights
Producer Eli Bernstein scheduled to attend.

Vakaraitaka
Co-Directors Fenton Bose Lutunatabua, DJ Lutunatabua, and Thelma Lutunatabua scheduled to attend.

The Waves Call You
Director Ana Verde and Producer Lauren Lukow scheduled to attend.

Who's There?
Director Jess Bassore scheduled to attend.

Winding Path
Executive Producer Joe Borgenicht scheduled to attend.

You can’t get what you want but you can get me
Co-Directors Samira Elagoz and Z Walsh scheduled to attend.