LONGEST NIGHT: SOLSTICE PARTY = Video Art Galore <3
The Biōm Experience at Mōksha
Seattle Turkish Film Festival - December 5-12 at Northwest Film Forum
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Acasă, My Home: Q&A with director Radu Ciorniciuc and Raluca Negulescu-Balaci
Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2020
Pony World Theatre – Suffering, Inc. [Online]
SINCE I BEEN DOWN Documentary Trailer
Strange Storytelling: Nightstream Edition - Unearthly
Welcome to Social Justice Film Fest 2020!
Social Justice Film Festival 2020 - October 1-11
Bao Tran of The Paper Tigers shouts out NWFF!!
SJ Chiro Shouts Out NWFF for our 25th Anniversary! <3
NWFF 25th Anniversary Celebration!
NWFF's 25th Birthday: Closing Night of Local Sightings 2020
Local Sightings Info Message: Opening & Closing Night!
JOULE TV Dinner x Mad World Short Film Screening
House on Fire Docu-Series
Meet Zora Bikangaga of Auntie Zariyah!
AUNTIE ZARIYAH INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER!
Hey! 👋🏿 I’m Zora Bikangaga, the writer/director/lead actor of the short film @auntiezariyah. As a former Seattleite, I’m currently an LA-based TV writer/actor. Tap the Stories above and follow along as we continue to takeover Northwest Film Forum’s page this week!
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Auntie Zariyah is playing in Local Sightings Film Festival as part of the COLORBURST Shorts Program, which features films that are multicultural and multifaceted, and traverse the globe in high vibes, fashion, and style. TICKETS & INFO: bit.ly/locosightburst
Presented by Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum, the 23rd Annual Local Sightings Film Festival [Online] virtually showcases creative communities from throughout the Pacific Northwest from Sep. 18-27, 2020. This year’s festival also celebrates NWFF’s 25th Anniversary as an organization: bit.ly/nwff25years -- FULL PROGRAM & SCHEDULE: bit.ly/locosight2020
AUNTIE ZARIYAH!
AUNTIE ZARIYAH SOCIAL MEDIA TAKEOVER!
Very stoked to takeover Northwest Film Forum’s page these next three days to showcase our cast, crew, and a little bit about how our short film, Auntie Zariyah, came to life. Without further ado, enjoy the trailer! 🙌🏿
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Zach crashes with an auntie he's never met before while doing a standup gig in Seattle. He soon finds out that his Auntie Zariyah is 12-year-old influencer who rents her own apartment and very much still treats him like a nephew.
Auntie Zariyah is playing in Local Sightings Film Festival as part of the COLORBURST Shorts Program, which features films that are multicultural and multifaceted, and traverse the globe in high vibes, fashion, and style. TICKETS & INFO: bit.ly/locosightburst
Presented by Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum, the 23rd Annual Local Sightings Film Festival [Online] virtually showcases creative communities from throughout the Pacific Northwest from Sep. 18-27, 2020. This year’s festival also celebrates NWFF’s 25th Anniversary as an organization: bit.ly/nwff25years -- FULL PROGRAM & SCHEDULE: bit.ly/locosight2020
[SDF 2020 x NWFF] - "A Poetics of Living: Biomimetic Blueprints" Teaser
View this program Aug. 15–30, 2020 at bit.ly/sdfpoetics !
Sliding scale admission: $0–25
** Co-presented withDesign in Public, as a part of the 10th annual Seattle Design Festival (Aug. 15–23). Learn more about the fest and its calendar of online events at designinpublic.org/event/seattle-design-festival-2020-about-time **
Design in Public presents the 10th annual Seattle Design Festival, the largest design-related event in the Pacific Northwest. This year’s festival theme, About Time, sought to ponder, past, present, and future at a unique moment of transition for the city, the region and the world. Instead, it presently confronts the reality of a global public health crisis and its profound impact on our daily lives.
On the occasion of Seattle Design Festival, Northwest Film Forum presents A Poetics of Living: Biomimetic Blueprints, an interdisciplinary film program and interactive community vision board collectively contemplating the poetry of pace, process, and performance in how we relate to our built and natural environments. From a foundation of improvisation and biomimetic ideation, these films invite us to slow down and prioritize care in the doing, serving as vignettes of a more collaborative, connected, community-centered way of life to benefit generations to come.
The application of models and systems found in nature to human design is called biomimicry. Biomimetic ideation and adaptation have enriched the diversity of our designs for daily life, giving us novel approaches to architecture, art, programming, and urban planning.
We invite you to seek out some of your favorite natural/biological phenomena, whether interpreted by human art or science or simply found in their raw, wonderful, natural form, and contribute them to an interactive Biomimetic Blueprint. The community board accepts a wide range of media, from web links, to drawings, writing, videos, and images, and we encourage you to submit in any and all media that speak to you!
Your own art
THE FIGHT [Online] - ACLU Documentary
When a migrant mother is separated from her child, when a transgender soldier is at risk of losing his career, when reproductive rights and basic voting rights are under attack — five unsung heroes take legal action to protect our freedoms.
The Fight is an inspiring, emotional look at four pivotal cases and the lawyers on the front lines of relentless attacks on civil liberties. Directors Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, and Eli Despres capture the rollercoaster ride of the thrill and defeat in these deeply human battles.
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“The Fight is an endlessly engaging look into the often labyrinthine legal apparatus, and the film seamlessly moves between the cases with such incredible skill that the team of editors deserve all the accolades afforded to them.” – Josh Kupecki, Austin Chronicle
“The Fight gives all socially-conscious individuals hope that there are wonderful people making superhuman efforts to beat back horrid attempts to stifle basic human rights and dignities. It is glorious to watch them shine.” – Elias Savada, Film International⠀
“…the sheer amount of both mundane and creative lawyering they perform is by far the most compelling aspect of the Kerry Washington-produced doc. … The insider view into the actual labor that goes into being a civil rights attorney is inspiring and informative… [but] …the documentary conveniently leaves out the double-edged sword of how the Trump administration has also been fantastic for their bottom line. Pre-Trump, annual donations averaged upwards of $3 million, but in the fifteen months that followed Trump’s election, that number skyrocketed to almost $120 million.“ – Beandrea July, Hollywood Reporter
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Immediately following the film there will be a pre-recorded discussion between Kerry Washington and the four ACLU lawyers featured in the film (Brigitte Amiri, Lee Gelernt, Dale Ho, and Chase Strangio). This conversation is exclusive to virtual cinema and in-theater engagements.
Additionally, patrons will have free
VIRTUAL SUMMER CAMPS for Advanced Animation - (Ages 12-17)
VIRTUAL SUMMER CAMPS for Advanced Animation - (Ages 12-17) still have space from July 13-17!!! All programs are sliding scale, though full scholarships are available. REGISTER NOW: https://bit.ly/advancedani
Whether you’re new to animation or have been making it for a while, this camp will help you get to the next level and create more complex animations. In this camp, you’ll learn about techniques for hand drawing animations, apps for animation, and how to use Adobe Premiere and After Effects to animate your art over video. If you like DIY, spending time on the details, and investing time in bringing your imagination to life, you might be an animator. Sign up and see what you can create!