Vee Hua 華婷婷The 12th Annual Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2024 returns virtually and in-person, with an extended online streaming window from February 26 to March 3. Below are narrative, documentary, and experimental short film picks by AANH+PI...
A multi-platform multimedia project, Future Landscapes approaches climate change in a novel way. At its centerpiece is a documentary short film entitled Invisible Landscapes — which visits sites of energy extraction, agriculture, and...
The 40th Annual Sundance Film Festival takes place from January 18 to 28, with online screenings beginning on the 25th and lasting only three full days. In a record-breaking year, 15,000 short films were submitted to Sundance and only 56 were...
Created by Milisuthando Bongela, Milisuthando (2023) is the powerful documentary feature film which bears the Indigenous South African creator’s name. The appropriately hyper-personal work features often heartwrenching and always candid...
Alison Jean SmithFor journalists at Mvskoke Media, the Muscogee Creek Nation’s only newspaper, November 8th, 2018 was “fucking D-Day.” That was the day that the tribal government voted to repeal the nation’s free press law, right as a...
In its 24th year of programming, imagineNATIVE 2023 champions a program of Indigenous short and feature films from all over the world, as well as industry panels, music events, and much, much more. What’s notable about imagineNATIVE, held at...
Now in its fourth year, the Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant awards $25,000 in unrestricted funds to one woman, nonbinary, transgender, and/or intersex filmmaker over 39 who has yet to make their first narrative feature film. In...
Zach FrimmelIn Even Hell Has Its Heroes, Clyde Petersen’s feature documentary, the Washington animator and filmmaker opens a mesmerizing, 108-minute portal into the many layers of Earth — the Olympia-to-Seattle band, led by Dylan Carlson, which...