In its 22nd year, Northwest Film Forum’s annual Local Sightings Film Festival evolves to showcase the growing complexity of creative communities in the Pacific Northwest. Featuring a competitive selection of curated shorts and feature film programs, Local Sightings 2019 invites regional artists to experiment, break, and remake popular conceptions around filmmaking and film exhibition. Moving onto FilmFreewa…

…the only festival of its kind in the Pacific Northwest!

Verse meets visuals in motion at Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) in April 2019. Cadence: Video Poetry Festival, presented by Northwest Film Forum, programmed in collaboration with Seattle author Chelsea Werner-Jatzke, is a series of screenings, workshops, and discussions on the genre of video poetry, throughout National Poetry Month. Entering its second year, C…

The 2019 edition of Northwest Film Forum’s (NWFF) annual ByDesign Festival: Cross-Cultural Design Thinking curated in close partnership with Design in Public (DiP), is dedicated to unleashing the design thinker in everyone. From March 15-17, experience programs at NWFF centered on design and architecture, including short and feature films, performances, hands-on generative workshops, and a pop up market featurin…

There is an energy of change in the world right now, which brings both difficulty and opportunity. More than an arts organization, Northwest Film Forum is a living organism, made up of people creating, gathering, laughing, learning and challenging one another. An organism that thrives in the face of change is one that leans into it, that is adaptable and willing to evolve—in tandem with or opposition to—the world around it.

What is Northwest Film Forum to You? A Message from Artistic Director Rana San

December 27, 2018

In case you missed our Winter Party Wordplay, NWFF stands for a lot of things! Here are some top sentiments shared by the community:

 

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Reshaping Education in 2019

December 20, 2018

To reflect the successes we’ve found in our film and event programming, Northwest Film Forum will be restructuring our Education & Artist Services in 2019, to actively incorporate community members throughout our programmatic process.

We are currently welcoming new proposals from teaching artists, industry professionals, community organizations, and students, as we revision and reshape our youth and adult workshop offerings.

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Northwest Film Forum Announces Vivian Hua as New Executive Director

September 24, 2018

Seattle, WA – September 24, 2018 – Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) announced today that Vivian Hua (華婷婷) has been appointed as its new Executive Director. Hua joined the NWFF team in 2017, after organizing The Seventh Art Stand, a national civil rights film and discussion series co-founded by Hua, NWFF and film distributor Abramorama, in response to the first Travel Ban. In addition to leading design and marketing initiatives, Hua has produced numerous community programs at NWFF that center eq…

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