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Kurosawa-sensei
February 5-15

Noir City: Lust and Larceny
February 19-25

Prodigal Sons
March 5-7, 10-11

AJC Seattle Jewish Film Festival
March 11 @ The Palace Ballroom
March 13-17 @ SIFF Cinema
March 18–21 @ Cinerama

12-Hour Movie Marathon
March 21

ITVS Community Cinema Seattle

2010 Winter Calendar download

SIFF 2010Early Bird

SIFFPresents

2010 Dinner & A Movie Series
at the Volterra Drawing Room in Ballard

The 2010 Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival
January 30 at the Cinerama Theatre

The Cinema Supper Club
Sunday, February 28
at Barrio in Downtown Bellevue

Screenings

Skateboard Film Festival Opening Night
Friday August 14, 2009
7:30 PM
Spatial Notions
Saturday August 15, 2009
11:00 AM
Beyond Borders
Saturday August 15, 2009
12:30 PM
Abstract
Saturday August 15, 2009
2:10 PM
Viva La France
Saturday August 15, 2009
4:25 PM
Profiles
Saturday August 15, 2009
5:50 PM
Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy
Saturday August 15, 2009
8:10 PM

Series & Events

The Skateboard Film Festival

The Skateboard Film Festival

August 14-15 (Friday night and and all day Saturday)

Pricing:
$7 - Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy
$5 - All other tickets
$20 - Festival Pass
(SIFF Cinema passes and vouchers are not valid for this series)

SIFF Cinema is proud to host The Skateboard Film Festival. The festival's mission is to enable, nurture, promote and encourage the next generation of skateboard filmmakers to inspire, lead and entertain the world with their stories and creativity. The festival will showcase a selection of skateboard films, chosen by a panel of judges, that have been submitted from all over the world. A detailed screening program will be released soon. Stay updated at www.theskateboardfilmfestival.com or follow our progress at www.twitter.com/skatefilmfest.

Films

  • Abstract
    Abstract

    These films focus on plot, acting and high production quality with skateboarding as a backdrop to a larger story. Meet members of the White Mountain Apache band of skateboarders as they explore their culture in motion, chase Cleo & Jack as they try to deliver a package, attend a Barcelona session and the ensuing sunset banquet that and, finally, watch Rick McCrank take on the identity of professio …

  • Beyond Borders
    Beyond Borders

    The goal of this program is to expand perspectives by exploring what's going on with skateboarding on other continents, both for fun and for meaningful purposes. Discover how a village in Uganda built their own skatepark by hand or what's possible with a camera, two brothers and three full days in Dubai. …

  • Profiles
    Profiles

    Learn the true stores behind legendary and contemporary skateboarders and companies -- from artists like Don Pendleton to pioneers like Christian Hosoi. Stories include a 10-minute interview with east coast pro, Danny Supa, to a documentary about the rise, drug-related downfall, and redemption of four of skateboarding's founders. …

  • Skateboard Film Festival Opening Night
    Skateboard Film Festival Opening Night

    The Skateboard Film Festival kicks off with a section of short films followed by the local premier of A Day at the Park, a portrait of the skateboard scene from over 30 skateparks in the greater Seattle area. …

  • Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy
    Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy

    Start on a road trip with director Steve Marino and friends as they drive and skateboard their way through the southern and midwestern United States. The night caps off with a special west coast screening of "Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy," which explores an 88-acre skateboarding compound in rural Ohio that is entirely run by a volunteer labor force of locals and underground skateboarders. …

  • Spatial Notions
    Spatial Notions

    Follow skateboarding filmmakers as they produce short "sponsor me" segments, travel on epic road trips, gain access to mansions with pristine pools and discuss how they contemplate landscapes and architecture that the average person might overlook. …

  • Viva La France
    Viva La France

    What can we say? We love the French. We were pleasantly surprised by the many French film submissions, and international submissions overall, for the festival's inaugural event. Noted for their smooth style, attention to technical detail and creativity these short French films will make you want to book a flight France to skate the ancient streets of Paris. …