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Festival, Industry
My 4th World Media Lab Journey
October 28, 2025
A Diné and Salvadorian Two Spirit writer, producer, photographer, and storyteller from L.A., Steph Viera writes about their experience as a 4th World Media Lab fellow. The program is a year-long fellowship for emerging and mid-career Indigenous filmmakers, providing opportunities to develop filmmaking skills and networks through festival participation, hands-on training, masterclasses, workshopping projects in development, pitch activities, and meetings with funders and other industry decision-makers.
Festival, SIFFcast
Recording of a SIFF 2021 Roundtable discussion with the directors of I’M FINE (Thanks for Asking) and Topside.
Festival
Meet Marlowe Dobbe, the Portland-based artist who illustrated the 2021 Seattle International Film Festival artwork.
Festival, SIFFcast
Recording of a SIFF 2021 Roundtable discussion with the directors from the Ibero-American Cinema program.
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The Seattle Black Film Festival is presenting a stellar line-up of 80+ films from across the diaspora.
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Festival, SIFFcast
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.
Festival, SIFFcast
Recording of a SIFF 2021 Roundtable discussion with five directors with films in the WTF program.
Festival
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.
Festival, SIFFcast
Recording of a SIFF 2021 Roundtable discussion with several documentary short filmmakers.
Festival, SIFFcast
Recording of a SIFF 2021 live Q&A with Summertime director Carlos López Estrada plus actors/writers/poets Tyris Winter and Mila Cuda.
Events, Festival
Honoring the past and present of Indigenous film education and curation at SIFF.
Festival, Video
A montage of clips from 2021 Seattle International Film Festival films, produced by First Sight Productions.
Festival
Have some bingo fun with these tips on how to get the best out of your 2021 Seattle International Film Festival.
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.
Festival, SIFFcast
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.
Festival, SIFFcast
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.
Cinema, Festival
Shop SIFF and Seattle International Film Festival merchandise at the siffshop.net.
Festival, Video
New Works-in-Progress Forum curator Kathleen McInnis describes the moment that sparked the idea for the program.
Festival, Video
The official trailer for the 47th annual Seattle International Film Festival.
Festival, Programmer Picks
Meet the 27 humans who programmed the 47th annual Seattle International Film Festival.
Seattle International Film Festival 2021 greetings from Artistic Director Beth Barrett and Festival Programming Manager Stan Shields.