Festival will take place November 14-15, 2015 at the SIFF Film Center
Full program now live at www.SeattleShort.org
Highlights from local and international filmmakers now available to preview! Request links now>>
Special guests available for in-person and advance interviews:
Lecy Goranson starred on ABC's Roseanne for six years as Becky Conner and has since had guest spots on HBO's Sex and The City, Fox's Fringe, FX's Damages, and NBC's Law and Order: SVU.
Champion gymnast turned actress Shannon Maree Walsh will be joining the festival Saturday, Nov. 14th. Shannon first got the industry's attention with a featured role in Begin Again starring Keira Knightley, and will play Lucy in the upcoming film Kid Witness starring Susan Sarandon.
For high resolution stills or any interview requests, please contact ryan@smarthousecreative.com.
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Seattle Shorts Film Festival returns in 2015 with twice the number of exceptional films to showcase for local and visiting audiences. After record breaking submissions, filmmaker attendance, and sold out screenings last year, the 5-year-old festival has expanded to two days, November 14th and 15th. The weekend will be bring film lovers together through Q&A’s, networking events, and an awards ceremony on Sunday the 15th.
The 2015 festival has a star studded lineup of local, national and international films, most of which are Seattle premieres. The Haircut, starring Bailey Noble (True Blood) and Molly C. Quinn (Castle), and Election Night, starring Peri Gilpin (Frasier), are two films produced through the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Beverley, starring Laya Lewis (Skins), brings us into the life of a biracial girl fighting racism in 1980’s Britain. The Out and Outs rewrites 1950’s history when an actor (Jonathan Bennett, Mean Girls) falls in love with a Louisiana girl. Sharni Vinson (Step Up 3D) plays an ambitious cop in Ticketed, a western comedy set in a modern ghost town. The Red Thunder, is a superhero film about parenting, starring Allie Grant (Suburgatory) and Miles Heizer (Parenthood). Fog City, winner of The Spike Lee Production Fund, tells a heartfelt story of veterans’ rights.
Pacific Northwest films will take viewers across the region from Walla Walla (The Mobile Stripper) and the wild B.C. surf (Pacific Wayfarer), to the streets of Seattle (Signs Everywhere and Tomgirl.) The acclaimed documentary Even the Walls (directed by Saman Maydani and Sarah Kuck), is an intimate look at gentrification and home in Seattle’s Yesler Terrace. Pacific Wayfarer, The Adept, and Coeur d'Alene (Rabbits) will all be Seattle premieres. All regional films will have special guests in attendance!
Music fans will enjoy scores by Mike Mccready (Tomgirl) and Chick Corea (The Apple Tree), and a rare and personal glimpse at China’s first wave of rock musicians (My Dad’s a Rocker). Over 50% of films selected this year were directed by and or starring women or gender nonconforming people. Also returning in 2015 is the all female jury. Seattle Shorts is committed to highlighting women’s voices in film.
The Seattle Shorts Film Festival brings Seattle film lovers the very best of short films from around the globe.
The MarQueen Hotel, just three blocks from the Cinema, is the official hotel sponsor of the festival. Tickets and passes will be available online prior to the festival through TheStranger.com. The festival is held at the SIFF Film Center, a state-of-the-art 95 seat jewelbox cinema inside the Seattle Center. For a full listing of films, special events and upcoming announcements visit www.SeattleShort.org.
Northwest films: The Mobile Stripper (Shirlyn Wong, WA), Tomgirl (Stephen Przybylowski, WA), The Perfect Pieces (Kirk Nordenstrom, WA), Coeur d'Alene (Rabbits) (Merlin Camozzi, ID), Even the Walls (Sarah Kuck, WA), The Midnight Tourist (Daniel Orme-doutre, WA), Signs Everywhere (Julio Ramirez, WA), The Gift (Clark Kokich, WA), The Pacific Wayfarer (Dylan Maranda, BC), The Adept (Adam Stern, BC)
Accepted films: D.Asian, The Mobile Stripper, Tomgirl, The Out and Out's, Ticketed, Election Night, The Perfect Pieces, The Edge of Impossible, Rabbits, Even the Walls, The Ballad of Holland Island House, The Evolution of a Gen Ex Music Purchaser, The Midnight Tourist, The Apple Tree, Tiny Out Loud, Sin Frontera (Without Boundary), Beverley, Signs Everywhere, Fishbone, The Red Thunder, The Haircut, The Gift, The Pacific Wayfarer, The Lost Mariner, Breathe, Boulevard 168, Save, The Adept, My Dad's a Rocker, Shelter, Fog City
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