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Meet the Programmers 2025

April 23, 2025

Meet our programmers who watch films year-round to pluck the best of the best for the Seattle International Film Festival.

SIFFcast

SIFFcast with Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt

October 3, 2017

On the newest SIFFcast, Jeremy chats with legendary civil rights activist Dolores Huerta and director Peter Bratt about their new documentary DOLORES (opening 10/6).

SIFFcast

SIFFcast with John Carroll Lynch

September 26, 2017

SIFFcast chats with acclaimed actor John Carroll Lynch about his debut film LUCKY, and shares memories of working with the late, great Harry Dean Stanton.

SIFFcast

SIFFcast with SJ Chiro

September 22, 2017

Local director SJ Chiro joins the show to talk about her feature film debut LANE 1974, opening at SIFF Film Center on Friday 9/22.

SIFFcast

SIFFcast with Heather Booth

September 12, 2017

Jeremy sits down with the most influential person you’ve never heard of – Heather Booth. She is the subject of the new documentary Heather Booth: Changing the World.

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SIFFcast

SIFFcast with Amanda Lipitz

August 11, 2017

SIFFcast host Jeremy Cropf sits down with director Amanda Lipitz to talk about her critically-acclaimed debut feature Step.

SIFFcast

SIFFcast with William Oldroyd

July 31, 2017

SIFFcast host Jeremy Cropf chats with director William Oldroyd about his acclaimed debut feature Lady Macbeth

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An Inconvenient Sequel with Former Vice President Al Gore

July 30, 2017

Former Vice President Al Gore discusses his new documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

SIFFcast

SIFFcast with Gillian Robespierre, Jenny Slate, and Abby Quinn

July 19, 2017

SIFFcast chats with the director and stars of Landline about the making of their quirky 90s-set comedy. Hilarious anecdotes ensue.

SIFFcast

SIFFcast with Nick Naveda

June 13, 2017

SIFFcast host Jeremy Cropf sits down with filmmaker Nick Naveda to discuss his directorial debut Say You Will, which had its World Premiere at SIFF 2017.

SIFFcast

SIFFcast with Andrew Gooi

June 12, 2017

SIFFcast host Jeremy sits down with Seattle-native director Andrew Gooi to chat about his new non-traditional culinary documentary Kakehashi: A Portrait of Chef Nobuo Fukada.

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