Seattle Film Critics Society PNW Award Nominees 2025

Seattle Film Critics Society PNW Awards

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.

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PNW Awards: Not One Drop of Blood

USA | 2024 | 83 min. | Jackson Deveraux, Lachlan Hinton

November 23, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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PNW Awards: To Kill A Wolf

USA | 2023 | 91 min. | Kelsey Taylor

November 22, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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PNW Awards: Train Dreams

USA | 2025 | 102 min. | Clint Bentley

October 29, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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PNW Awards: Twinless

USA | 2025 | 100 min. | James Sweeney

November 21, 2025

SIFF Film Center

In this Sundance-winning, Portland-set dark comedy, two men trauma-bond at a support group for people who have lost their twin.

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PNW Awards: Wolf Land

USA | 2025 | 71 min. | Sarah Hoffman

November 22, 2025

SIFF Film Center

“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.

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PNW Awards: WTO/99

USA | 2025 | 95 min. | Ian Bell

November 23, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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