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Documentaries as Document Roundtable

April 14, 2021

Recording of a SIFF 2021 Roundtable discussion with the directors of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street and Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation.

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What The Femme Roundtable

April 14, 2021

Recording of a SIFF 2021 Roundtable discussion with five directors with films in the WTF program.

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At the Hair Salon with Deadly Cuts Director Rachel Carey

April 13, 2021

We asked director Rachel Carey for a list of her fave hair movies in celebration of her blackly comic feature debut Deadly Cuts, set in a working-class Dublin hair salon.

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Documentary Shorts Roundtable

April 13, 2021

Recording of a SIFF 2021 Roundtable discussion with several documentary short filmmakers.

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SIFFcast: SIFF 2021 Summertime Q&A

April 12, 2021

Recording of a SIFF 2021 live Q&A with Summertime director Carlos López Estrada plus actors/writers/poets Tyris Winter and Mila Cuda.

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Tracy Rector and the Journey to cINeDIGENOUS

April 10, 2021

Honoring the past and present of Indigenous film education and curation at SIFF.

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Festival Bingo

April 8, 2021

Have some bingo fun with these tips on how to get the best out of your 2021 Seattle International Film Festival.

Mayor’s Award For Outstanding Achievement In Film

April 8, 2021

The recipient 2021 Mayor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film is Vivian Hua (華婷婷): writer, filmmaker, organizer, and Executive Director of Northwest Film Forum.

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SIFFcast sits down with filmmakers Iuli Gerbase (The Pink Cloud) and Cássio Pereira Dos Santo (Valentina) to talk about their feature debuts, both screening as part of SIFF's 2021 Ibero-American Cinema program.

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SIFFcast: Northwest Connections Filmmaker Roundtable

April 7, 2021

SIFFcast sits down with a few of the filmmakers from the 47th Seattle International Film Festival's Northwest Connections program to discuss casting locally, filming in Washington, and finishing their films in the midst of a pandemic.

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Shop SIFF

April 6, 2021

Shop SIFF and Seattle International Film Festival merchandise at the siffshop.net.

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The Cinematic Trinity: Filmmaker as Artist + Industry as Conduit + Audience™

April 2, 2021

New Works-in-Progress Forum curator Kathleen McInnis describes the moment that sparked the idea for the program.

Festival, Programmer Picks

Meet the Programmers

March 24, 2021

Meet the 27 humans who programmed the 47th annual Seattle International Film Festival.

Festival Greetings from Beth and Stan

March 24, 2021

Seattle International Film Festival 2021 greetings from Artistic Director Beth Barrett and Festival Programming Manager Stan Shields.

SIFFcast

SIFFcast: Noir City 2020

February 5, 2020

We welcome back "Czar of Noir" Eddie Muller, host of TCM's Noir Alley, to talk about Noir City (February 14-20, 2020 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian).

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SIFFcast: Best of 2019 Part 2

February 4, 2020

In part two of this special Best of 2019 series, we continuing recapping the past year in film and chat with director Kasi Lemmons about her hit Oscar-nominated film Harriet.

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SIFFcast: Best of 2019 Part 1

January 8, 2020

In this special two-part episode, we recap the past year in film with stunt coordinator Robert Nagle, who talks about creating racing sequences for the acclaimed Ford v Ferrari.

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Scared SIFF 2019 Episode 3 with Emmett Montgomery

October 25, 2019

On the third episode of Scared SIFF 2019, Clinton and Colleen discuss the most memorable portrayals of Satan in film and Clinton chats with comedian Emmett Montgomery about Ari Aster’s Midsommar.

Photo Gallery

Sip for SIFF 2019

October 24, 2019

Photos from SIFF's annual fundraising gala, Sip for SIFF.

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Scared SIFF 2019 Episode 2 with Chelsea Stardust

October 18, 2019

The ScaredSIFF crew interviews SATANIC PANIC director Chelsea Stardust and discuss folk horror films.

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Scared SIFF 2019 Episode 1

October 12, 2019

SIFF WTF programmers Clinton McClung and Colleen O'Holleran provide a primer on director Herschell Gordon Lewis and interview the filmmakers of Scream, Queen: My Nightmare on Elm Street.