In Korean-Canadian filmmaker Jerome Yoo’s debut narrative feature film, Mongrels (2024), Yoo depicts a family attempting to put back the pieces of their broken lives. Building invisible walls between...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷As an immigrant who traversed multiple continents from a young age, self-taught Seattle-based artist Nahom Ghirmay has seen a lot of life. He incorporates his vast multicultural sensibilities into dreamy, color-forward paintings that evoke gentle...
Navi EsparzaDocumentarian Cady Voge‘s heart-touching documentary feature film, All We Carry (Lo que llevamos) (2024), offers an extensive look into the arduous journey of refugees and immigrants traveling through Latin America and into the United States...
Based off of writer-director Alika Tengan (Kanaka Maoli)’s 2019 short film of the same name, Moloka’i Bound is an intimate narrative feature film about a man’s return to society, his family, and his community, following his incarceration...
2024 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), which started on May 9. Though SIFF has historically been one of the longest film festivals in the entire country, it has since scaled down the duration of its in...
Still on the first leg of her 2024 national tour, Los Angeles-based British musician Arlo Parks took the stage on March 8, to a sold-out show at Showbox SoDo in Seattle. Released in 2023, The Soft Machine may only be the second full-length album by...
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 SmithWhen filmmaker Reed Harkness was growing up in 1990s Seattle, he never left the house without his Super 8 camera. He threw himself into making the “Sam Films”: arty, experimental shorts featuring his half-brother, Sam. The two siblings...