Documentary
SIFF DocFest
SIFF’s third annual DocFest will return October 5-12, 2023 at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Join us for a celebration of all films documentary, with stories of people you know, stories that will floor you, and stories that will make you look outside yourself. Moving from the thought provoking to the tenacious, with stops at tearful and…
Tacoma Film Festival
This year’s festival has 27 feature documentary and fictional films and over 180 short works by filmmakers from 28 countries. We are proud of our curation of short works this year. Short film projects are where new voices first find purchase in their art and where filmmaker creativity is often considerably expressed. We encourage filmgoers…
The Social Justice Film Festival
The Social Justice Film Festival showcases brave and creative films that explore injustice around the world. SJFF harnesses the power of visual storytelling to inspire, empower, and educate. SJFF serves as a resource, and a critical lens to democratize filmmaking and produce brave, cutting-edge documentary and narrative stories otherwise absent from the mainstream media. It…
Screening of Film “Americonned”
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Film starts at 7pm, followed by Q&A with the filmmakers, April Sims, President of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Mike Buchman, Communications Director, Solid Ground, Seattle. AMERICONNED is an award-winning film about income inequality in the US and its tragic destabilizing effects to Americans. Deep inequality has led to…
Documenting the Central District’s Legacy—Before It’s Gone
The Shelf Life project captures life in the rapidly gentrifying CD.
It’s no secret that gentrification has encroached on the Central District (CD), once home to much of Seattle’s African-American population. The Jackson Street Red Apple grocery—a neighborhood hub—is the latest to fall by the wayside. With demolition of the store scheduled for 2018, local artists Jill Freidberg, Domonique Meeks, Mayowa Aina, Henry Luke, Carina Del…
‘Boys of ’36’ Premieres August 2 on PBS
A new PBS film honors UW's 1936 gold-medal rowers
Just in time to help us warm up for some Team USA fist pumping during this summer’s Olympic Games, PBS’s American Experience series of historical documentaries presents an episode celebrating a group of athletes who hold a special place in local hearts. The program, “The Boys of ’36,” tells the story of the scrappy crew…