Expanding Cinema Through Education

This free program offers youth a direct link to SIFF Cinema, the Seattle International Film Festival, and our diverse local filmmaking community. SIFF FutureWave currently offers many of these programs year-round:

• Classroom visits by filmmakers from around the world lend real-world application across all school subjects
  
• Special student screenings of films with accompanying study guides and post-film discussions. We also coordinate throughout the year with teachers to expand their classroom curriculum using cinema
  
• The FutureWave Shorts Program presents the best of youth short filmmaking from around the world
  Click here to download the SIFF 2010 FutureWave Application
  
• A special selection of films programmed for a teen audience.
  
• SuperFly, a youth filmmaking workshop modeled after our successful Fly Filmmaking Challenge (developed in partnership with Longhouse Media)
  
• Digital technology workshops
  
• Professional development workshops for educators (developed in partnership with Reel Grrls)

If you have questions about SIFF FutureWave or would like more information, please contact Educational Programs Coordinator Dustin Kaspar at dustin.kaspar@siff.net.

Youth Jury Applications

Youth film lovers are invited to apply to be a youth juror at the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival. There are two juries: Films4Families (grades 3 - 7) and FutureWave (grades 8 - 12) Complete the application today!"

Download the FutureWave Jury Application
Download the Films4Families Jury Application

FutureWave Highlights from SIFF 2009

• Creation of the FutureWave membership. For a reduced rate, youth under 18 can become a part of SIFF’s core audience
  
• Thirteen youth films debuted, selected from more than 100 submissions
  
• The FutureWave WaveMaker 2009 Award Grand Jury Prize: A Generation of Consolidation, by Samantha Muilenberg from Reel Grrls, Seattle
  
• A FutureWave WaveMaker 2009 Special Jury Prize: If U Want 2 Get Technical by Riaebia Robinson from Reel Works, Brooklyn
  
• The FutureWave 2009 Shorts Audience Award: A Generation of Consolidation
  
• The FutureWave 2009 Youth Jury was inaugurated and selected My Suicide by David Lee Miller as the winner of the Youth Grand Jury Prize for FutureWave Features. A Special Jury Award was given to Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary.
  
• Fifty-seven young filmmakers from around the country participated in the SuperFly Filmmaking workshop. Students experienced life on the Squaxin Island reservation during 36 hours of Fly Filmmaking, shooting and editing five short films using a script by Princess Lucaj. The SuperFly films world premiered in the SIFF FutureWave Shorts Program, just hours after being completed
  
• More than 1,000 students attended special student matinee screenings
  
• SIFF programmed a special selection of films curated for a teen audience
  
• Fourteen filmmakers from around the world visited schools across Puget Sound to expand students experience in academic and artistic classes with filmmaking
  
• Teachers attended a professional development workshop on using animation in their classroom presented by Marisa Vitiello and Reel Grrls

Teen Tix

SIFF is a partner in the Seattle Center’s Teen Tix program, open to youth ages 13-18. Teen Tix members may purchase tickets to screenings at SIFF Cinema and the 2009 Festival – along with other local music, dance, theater, and art events – for only $5.

To learn more about Teen Tix, visit Seattle Center’s Teen Tix webpage.

FutureWave is made possible by the generosity of these sponsors:
4Culture
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Adobe - Youth Voices
The Boeing Company
First Student
Longhouse Media
Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs
The National Endowment for the Arts
Northwest Film Forum
PONCHO
Real Networks
Reel Grrls
Squaxin Island Tribe
Swinomish Tribe
The Mac Store / IrisInk
Washington State Arts Commission
Washington State Film Office