The Seattle International Film Festival returned to its in-person format for the first time since 2019 this year, with many of the indie film world’s finest making their way to the Emerald City. The 11-day festival, which concluded this weekend, screened 263 films, including 28 world premieres, and ultimately honored a combination of domestic and foreign films with its awards.
The timely Ukrainian war drama “Klondike” from Maryna Er Gorbach won the Grand Jury Prize, with Zia Mohajerjasbi’s Seattle-set drama “Know Your Place” earning rave reviews from audiences and winning the festival’s New American Cinema Competition.
“As we celebrated our first in-person festival in three years, we were so thrilled to bring great films and new voices from across the globe,” said Beth Barrett, Siff Artistic Director. “Creating those experiences that bring audiences around film, both in cinema and hybrid, allowed us all to connect, to learn, and to make...
The timely Ukrainian war drama “Klondike” from Maryna Er Gorbach won the Grand Jury Prize, with Zia Mohajerjasbi’s Seattle-set drama “Know Your Place” earning rave reviews from audiences and winning the festival’s New American Cinema Competition.
“As we celebrated our first in-person festival in three years, we were so thrilled to bring great films and new voices from across the globe,” said Beth Barrett, Siff Artistic Director. “Creating those experiences that bring audiences around film, both in cinema and hybrid, allowed us all to connect, to learn, and to make...
- 4/24/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
The Seattle International Film Festival closed its 48th edition on Sunday by announcing its top honors, presenting awards at a ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Seattle.
“Klondike,” a film following a family that lives on the tumultuous border of Russia and Ukraine in 2014, was awarded the grand jury prize within the festival’s official competition.
“For a work both tragically prophetic and universal in its impact, a ferocious and formalist vision of war that fuses humanism, black comedy and horror into a searing and original vision, we award the Grand Jury Prize to Maryna Er Gorbach’s ‘Klondike,'” said the jury, composed of Angel An, senior director of acquisitions at Roadside Attraction; David Ansen, lead programmer at the Palm Spring International Film Festival; and Matthew Campbell, artistic director of the Denver Film Society and the Denver Film Festival.
“Know Your Place,” a drama following two teenage...
“Klondike,” a film following a family that lives on the tumultuous border of Russia and Ukraine in 2014, was awarded the grand jury prize within the festival’s official competition.
“For a work both tragically prophetic and universal in its impact, a ferocious and formalist vision of war that fuses humanism, black comedy and horror into a searing and original vision, we award the Grand Jury Prize to Maryna Er Gorbach’s ‘Klondike,'” said the jury, composed of Angel An, senior director of acquisitions at Roadside Attraction; David Ansen, lead programmer at the Palm Spring International Film Festival; and Matthew Campbell, artistic director of the Denver Film Society and the Denver Film Festival.
“Know Your Place,” a drama following two teenage...
- 4/24/2022
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
“The Goodnight Show” actress Ellie Dubin and director Charlie Schwan join the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival.
TheWrap founder and CEO Sharon Waxman and awards editor Steve Pond join the filmmakers featured in the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival at AMC Century City on Thursday.
Jurors Dana Gill, Jim Cummings, Irene Taylor Brodsky, Jihan Robinson and Rafael Casal at the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival.
Filmmakers Cecilia Albertini and Andrea Brusa are featured in the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival.
“My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes” producer Josh Polon joins the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival.
Sharon Waxman speaks about the roster of short films featured in the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival.
Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky speaks in the jury panel at the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival.
“Z-man” director David Fortune speaks about his film during the filmmakers panel.
“Night Shift” director Marshall Tyler speaks about getting his film,...
TheWrap founder and CEO Sharon Waxman and awards editor Steve Pond join the filmmakers featured in the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival at AMC Century City on Thursday.
Jurors Dana Gill, Jim Cummings, Irene Taylor Brodsky, Jihan Robinson and Rafael Casal at the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival.
Filmmakers Cecilia Albertini and Andrea Brusa are featured in the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival.
“My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes” producer Josh Polon joins the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival.
Sharon Waxman speaks about the roster of short films featured in the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival.
Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky speaks in the jury panel at the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival.
“Z-man” director David Fortune speaks about his film during the filmmakers panel.
“Night Shift” director Marshall Tyler speaks about getting his film,...
- 8/24/2018
- by Linda Xu
- The Wrap
Randall Christoper’s “The Driver Is Red,” a gripping hybrid documentary and animation short about the hunt for a Nazi war criminal, won the Industry Prize at TheWrap’s Shortlist Film Festival.
Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi’s “Magic Alps,” about an Afghani refugee who bring the Italian immigration bureaucracy to a grinding halt when he attempts to bring his goat into the country, took the Audience Prize at an awards ceremony held Thursday at the AMC Century City 15.
“The Peak,” a short about an elaborate scavenger hunt in Hong Kong directed by Savannah College of Art and Design student Mark Alex Vogt, won the top prize in the student competition.
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Photo by Ted Soqui
Chosen for the Industry Prize by a jury of industry veterans and award-winning filmmakers, “The Driver Is Red” tells...
Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi’s “Magic Alps,” about an Afghani refugee who bring the Italian immigration bureaucracy to a grinding halt when he attempts to bring his goat into the country, took the Audience Prize at an awards ceremony held Thursday at the AMC Century City 15.
“The Peak,” a short about an elaborate scavenger hunt in Hong Kong directed by Savannah College of Art and Design student Mark Alex Vogt, won the top prize in the student competition.
Also Read: ShortList 2018: 'The Driver Is Red' Tells Timely Holocaust Story With Line Drawings (Video)
Photo by Ted Soqui
Chosen for the Industry Prize by a jury of industry veterans and award-winning filmmakers, “The Driver Is Red” tells...
- 8/24/2018
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
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