Seattle Film Critics Society PNW Award Nominees 2025
October 29 + November 21–23, 2025
The Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) is an association of professional critics working to facilitate a community that supports local productions and festivals; enhances public education, awareness, and appreciation of cinema; and strengthens the bonds of critical dialogue as it pertains to the cinematic arts. Since 2022, the SFCS has honored Pacific Northwest filmmaking as part of our annual awards. To celebrate the many talented filmmakers who call our region home and who produce work here, a nominating committee considers films released throughout the year whose primary production was in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, or Idaho) and selects six finalists. The winner is determined by a vote of all SFCS members.
PNW Awards: Not One Drop of Blood
USA | 2024 | 83 min. | Jackson Deveraux, Lachlan Hinton
November 23, 2025
In the remote expanses of Eastern Oregon, a rash of unexplained cattle mutilations reignites a decades-old mystery of the American West. Film team scheduled to attend for introduction and Q&A.
PNW Awards: To Kill A Wolf
USA | 2023 | 91 min. | Kelsey Taylor
November 22, 2025
In a modern re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood, a social pariah discovers a teenage runaway in the Oregon Wilderness and does his best to help her find a way home—a troubling exploration of trauma and redemption. Director Kelsey Taylor and Cinematographer Adam Lee scheduled to attend for introduction and Q&A.
PNW Awards: Train Dreams
USA | 2025 | 102 min. | Clint Bentley
October 29, 2025
Set in the Pacific Northwest during the first decades of the 20th century, director Clint Bentley’s beguiling adaptation of Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson’s novella stars Joel Edgerton as a humble labourer immersed in a rapidly changing world of natural splendour and voracious industry.
PNW Awards: Twinless
USA | 2025 | 100 min. | James Sweeney
November 21, 2025
In this Sundance-winning, Portland-set dark comedy, two men trauma-bond at a support group for people who have lost their twin.
PNW Awards: Wolf Land
USA | 2025 | 71 min. | Sarah Hoffman
November 22, 2025
“Wolf-protecting cowboy” Daniel Curry and rancher Jerry Francis try to find common ground between their conflicting interests. Director Sarah Hoffman, Editor David Wulzen, Director of Photography Bryce Yukio Adolphson, and Executive Producer Sarah Menzies scheduled to attend for introduction and Q&A.
PNW Awards: WTO/99
USA | 2025 | 95 min. | Ian Bell
November 23, 2025
An immersive archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO's impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization. Director Ian Bell scheduled to attend for introduction and Q&A.