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.

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 Jeff Orlowski-Yang and Co-Director Sarah Keo scheduled to attend.

Chasing Time
Director/Producer/Cinematographer 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 scheduled to attend.

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

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

Girls Will Be Girls
Director Shuchi Talati scheduled to attend.

Grandpa Guru
Director Silvio Mirošničenko, Editor Doris Dodig, and Screenwriter/Producer Sanjin Hasanefendic scheduled to attend.

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

Holy Mother
Director Antonio Chavarrias 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.

Igualada
Director Juan Mejia scheduled to attend.

Iron Mask
Director Kim Sung Hwan scheduled to attend.

Love Machina
Cinematographer Peter Sillen scheduled to attend.

Luther: Never Too Much
Director Dawn Porter scheduled to attend the May 10 screening.

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

Merchant Ivory
Director 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/Subject Slava Leontyev; Subjects Anya Stasenko and Frodo the dog; 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 Miguel Faus scheduled to attend.

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 and Screenwriter Fernando Navarro 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 and Editor Lano Medina scheduled to attend.

Standing Above the Clouds
Director/Producer Jalena Keane-Lee scheduled to attend.

Stress Positions
Director Theda Hammel scheduled to attend.

Susan Feniger Forked
Director Liz Lachman 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.

Ultimate Citizens
Director Francine Strickwerda and Subject Jamshid Khajavi scheduled to attend

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

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

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.