Seattle International Film Festival 2005 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2005

Relive the 31st Seattle International Film Festival. Read key details, flip through the full Festival catalog, see photos and other media, and find a full list of feature-length films presented at the 2005 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 19–June 12, 2005
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Broadway Performance Hall, Egyptian Theatre, Grand Hyatt Hotel Seattle, Guild 45th Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, JBL Theater at Experience Music Project, Neptune Theater, Neumo’s, Northwest Film Forum, Paramount Theatre, Uptown Theatre

Opening Night: Me and You and Everyone We Know at Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Last Days at Neptune Theatre
Tribute: Peter Sarsgaard, Joan Allen
Emerging Masters: Susanne Bier, Attila Janisch, Pablo Trapero, Jia Zhang-ke


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

A line of SIFF attendees builds on the corner of Pine and Harvard at the Egyptian Theatre at the 31st Seattle International Film Festival

A line of SIFF attendees builds on the corner of Pine and Harvard at the Egyptian Theatre at the 31st Seattle International Film Festival

A line of SIFF attendees builds on the corner of Pine and Harvard at the Egyptian Theatre at the 31st Seattle International Film Festival

A line of SIFF attendees builds on the corner of Pine and Harvard at the Egyptian Theatre at the 31st Seattle International Film Festival

Festival Director, Helen Loveridge and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, pose with director, Gus Van Sant, for the North American Premiere of his film, Last Days, at the Neptune Theatre

Festival Director, Helen Loveridge and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, pose with director, Gus Van Sant, for the North American Premiere of his film, Last Days, at the Neptune Theatre

Festival Director, Helen Loveridge and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, pose with director, Gus Van Sant, for the North American Premiere of his film, Last Days, at the Neptune Theatre

Festival Director, Helen Loveridge and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, pose with director, Gus Van Sant, for the North American Premiere of his film, Last Days, at the Neptune Theatre

Festival Director, Helen Loveridge and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, pose with director, Miranda July, for the program, How I Learned to Draw: A Conversation with Miranda July

Festival Director, Helen Loveridge and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, pose with director, Miranda July, for the program, How I Learned to Draw: A Conversation with Miranda July

Festival Director, Helen Loveridge and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, pose with director, Miranda July, for the program, How I Learned to Draw: A Conversation with Miranda July

Festival Director, Helen Loveridge and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, pose with director, Miranda July, for the program, How I Learned to Draw: A Conversation with Miranda July

SIFF staff, including current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, long-time programmers, Dan Doody, Andy Spletzer, Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, Festival Director, Helen Loveridge, and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, not pictured, Stan Shields, current Associate Director of Festival Programming, programmed shorts

SIFF staff, including current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, long-time programmers, Dan Doody, Andy Spletzer, Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, Festival Director, Helen Loveridge, and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, not pictured, Stan Shields, current Associate Director of Festival Programming, programmed shorts

SIFF staff, including current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, long-time programmers, Dan Doody, Andy Spletzer, Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, Festival Director, Helen Loveridge, and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, not pictured, Stan Shields, current Associate Director of Festival Programming, programmed shorts

SIFF staff, including current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, long-time programmers, Dan Doody, Andy Spletzer, Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, Festival Director, Helen Loveridge, and Director of Programming, Carl Spence, not pictured, Stan Shields, current Associate Director of Festival Programming, programmed shorts

Last Days
Last Days
Cote D'Azur
Cote D'Azur
Bombon, El Perro
Bombon, El Perro
Me And You And Everyone We Know
Me And You And Everyone We Know
Innocent Voices
Innocent Voices
Mysterious Skin
Mysterious Skin
Murderball
Murderball

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Innocent Voices (dir. Luis Mandoki, Mexico)

Best Director
Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin, USA)

Best Actress
Joan Allen (Yes)

Best Actor
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Mysterious Skin)

Best Short
Raftman's Razor (dir. Keith Bearden, USA)

Best Documentary
Murderball (dir. Henry-Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
4 (dir. Ilya Khrzhanovsky, , Russia)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Swimmers (dir. Doug Sadler, USA)

Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Based on a True Story (dir. Walter Stokman, Netherlands)

List of Feature-Length Films

The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial - dir. Raymond Depardon, 2004, France

2046 - dir. Wong Kar-wai, 2004, Hong Kong

36 - dir. Olivier Marchal, 2004, France

3-Iron - dir. Kim Ki-duk, 2004, South Korea

4 - dir. Ilya Khrzhanovsky, 2004, Russia

5 X 2 - dir. François Ozon, 2004, France

9 Songs - dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2004, United Kingdom

Absolut - dir. Romed Wyder, 2004, Switzerland

Adam & Steve - dir. Craig Chester, 2005, USA

After Innocence - dir. Jessica Sanders, 2005, USA

After Midnight - dir. Davide Ferrario, 2004, Italy

After the Day Before - dir. Attila Janisch, 2004, Hungary

Almost Brothers - dir. Lúcia Murat, 2004, Brazil

Alone - dir. Thomas Durchschlag, 2004, Germany

Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley - dir. Nyla Bialek Adams, Laurie Trombley, 2004, USA

Americano - dir. Kevin Noland, 2005, USA/Spain

Another Life - dir. Michele Placido, 2004, Italy

Après Vous... - dir. Pierre Salvadori, 2003, France

Arafat, My Brother - dir. Rashid Masharawi, 2005, France/Canada

The Aristocrats - dir. Paul Provenza, 2005, USA

The Art & Crimes of Ron English - dir. Pedro Carvajal, 2004, USA

Arvo Pärt, 24 Preludes for a Fugue - dir. Dorian Supin, 2004, Estonia

As it is in Heaven - dir. Kay Pollak, 2004, Sweden

Avellaneda’s Moon - dir. Juan José Campanella, 2004, Argentina/Spain

Bars in the Memory - dir. Manuel Palacios, 2004, Spain

Based on a True Story - dir. Walter Stokman, 2005 , Netherlands

Banlieue 13 - dir. Pierre Morel, 2004, France

The Beat That My Heart Skipped - dir. Jacques Audiard, 2005, France

The Beautiful Country - dir. Hans Petter Moland, 2004, Norway/USA

Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt - dir. Margaret Brown, 2004, USA

Being Caribou - dir. Leanne Allison, Diana Wilson, 2004, Canada

Beneath Her Window - dir. Metod Pevec, 2004, Slovenia

Bluebird - dir. Mijke de Jong, 2004, Netherlands

Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds - dir. Ahmet Uluçay, 2004, Turkey

Bombón, el Perro - dir. Carlos Sorin, 2004, Argentina

Born into Brothels - dir. Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman, 2004, USA/India

Bride of Silence - dir. Doan Thanh Nghia, Doan Minh Phuong, 2005, Vietnam/Germany/Australia

Broidit - dir. Esa Illi, 2003, Finland 

Brothers - dir. Susanne Bier, 2004, Denmark

Campfire - dir. Joseph Cedar , 2004, Israel

Cape of Good Hope - dir. Mark Bamford, 2004, South Africa/USA

Childstar - dir. Don McKellar, 2004, Canada

The Circus - dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1928, USA

The Civilization Of Maxwell Bright - dir. David Beaird, 2005, USA

Clean - dir. Olivier Assayas, 2004, France

Cote d’Azur - dir. Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau, 2005, France

Crane World - dir. Pablo Trapero, 1999, Argentina

Cruel But Necessary - dir. Saul Rubinek, 2005, USA

Dalecarlians - dir. Maria Blom, 2004, Sweden

Days and Hours - dir. Pjer Zalica, 2004, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Dead Man’s Shoes - dir. Shane Meadows, 2004, United Kingdom

The Debt - dir. Jorge Lantana, Andrés Schaer, 2004, Argentina

Deep Blue - dir. Alastair Fothergill, Andy Byatt, 2003, United Kingdom/Germany

Deepwater - dir. David S. Marfield, 2005, USA

Dias de Santiago - dir. Josué Méndez, 2004, Peru

Dreamship Surprise - Period 1 - dir. Michael “Bully” Herbig, 2004, Germany

Drive Well, Sleep Carefully: On the Road with Death Cab For Cutie - dir. Justin Mitchell, 2005, USA

The Dying Gaul - dir. Craig Lucas, 2005, USA

Earth and Ashes - dir. Atiq Rahimi, 2004, France

Earthling - dir. Tristan Bayer, Wolfgang Bayer, 2005, USA

The Edukators - dir. Hans Weingartner, 2004, Germany

El Crimen Perfecto - dir. Alex de la Iglesia, 2004, Spain

Ellie Parker - dir. Scott Coffey, 2005, USA

Fallen Angel: Gram Parsons - dir. Gandulf Hennig, 2004, Germany/United Kingdom

Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven’s Gate - dir. Michael Epstein, 2004, USA

Fishermen’s Terminal - dir. B.J. Bullert, 2005, USA

Forgiveness - dir. Ian Gabriel, 2004, South Africa

Fourteen Sucks - dir. Emil Larsson, Henrik Norrthon, Filippa Freijd, Martin Jern, 2004, Sweden

Frozen - dir. Juliet McKoen, 2004, United Kingdom/Denmark

Games of Love and Chance - dir. Abdellatafi Kechiche, 2003, France

Genesis - dir. Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou, 2004, France/Italy

The Gits - dir. Kerri O'Kane, 2005, USA

Godzilla: Final Wars - dir. Ryuhei Kitamura, 2004, Japan/Australia/USA/China

Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern - dir. Jon Ward, 2005, USA

Gorky Trilogy 1 - The Childhood of Maxim Gorky - dir. Mark Donskoy, 1938, Soviet Union

Gorky Trilogy 2 - My Apprenticeship - dir. Mark Donskoy, 1939, Soviet Union

Gorky Trilogy 3 - My Universities - dir. Mark Donskoy, 1940, Soviet Union

The Great Water - dir. Ivo Trajkov, 2004, Macedonia

Green Hat - dir. Liu Fendou, 2004, China/Hong Kong

Grizzly Man - dir. Werner Herzog, 2005, USA/Canada

Hana and Alice - dir. Shunji Iwai, 2004, Japan

Happily Ever After - dir. Yvan Attal, 2004, France

Hari Om - dir. Bharatbala Ganapathy, 2004, India

Hawaii, Oslo - dir. Erik Poppe, 2004, Norway

The Heart of the Game - dir. Ward Serrill, 2005, USA

Heaven’s Gate - dir. Michael Cimino, 1980, USA

Heights - dir. Chris Terrio, 2005, USA

Her Minor Thing - dir. Charles Matthau, 2005, USA

Hey, Comrade. I seem to have misplaced my donkey - dir. Ivan Boychuck, 2005, Ukraine

A Hole In My Heart - dir. Lukas Moodysson, 2004, Sweden

Holiday Weekend - dir. Robert Glinski, 2004, Poland

The Holy Girl - dir. Lucrecia Martel, 2004, Argentina

Hostage - dir. Constantine Giannaris , 2004, Greece/Turkey

Howl’s Moving Castle - dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 2004, Japan

The Hunter - dir. Serik Aprymov, 2004, Kazakhstan

The Immortal - dir. Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez, 2005, Nicaragua/Spain/Mexico

In My Father’s Den - dir. Brad McGann, 2004, New Zealand

In the Battlefields - dir. Danielle Arbid, 2004, Lebanon/France/Belgium

Inlaws and Outlaws - dir. Drew Emery, 2005, USA

Innocent Voices - dir. Luis Mandoki, 2004, Mexico

Izo - dir. Takashi Miike, 2004, Japan

The Journey - dir. Ligy J. Pullappally, 2004, India/USA

The Joy of Life - dir. Jenni Olson, 2005, USA

Junebug - dir. Phil Morrison, 2005, USA

Kekexili: Mountain Patrol - dir. Lu Chuan, 2004, China/USA

Kept and Dreamless - dir. Martin Desalvo, Vera Fogwill, 2005, Argentina

The Keys to the House - dir. Gianni Amelio, 2004, Italy/Germany/France

Kings and Queens - dir. Arnaud Desplechin, 2004, France

Kings of the Sky - dir. Deborah Stratman, 2004, USA

King’s Game - dir. Nicolai Arcel, 2004, Denmark

La Sierra - dir. Scott Dalton, Margarita Martinez, 2004, Colombia/USA

Ladies in Lavender - dir. Charles Dance, 2004, United Kingdom

L’Amant - dir. Hiroki Ryuchi, 2004, Japan

Land of Plenty - dir. Wim Wenders, 2004, USA

The Last Day - dir. Rodolphe Marconi, 2004, France

Last Days - dir. Gus Van Sant, 2005, USA

The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman - dir. Barry Avrich, 2005, Canada/USA

The Last Moon - dir. Miguel Littín, 2004, Chile/Mexico/Spain

Layer Cake - dir. Matthew Vaughn, 2004, United Kingdom

Le Grand Voyage - dir. Ismaël Ferroukhi, 2004, France

León and Olvido - dir. Xavier Bermúdez, 2004, Spain

Letter from an Unknown Woman - dir. Xu Jinglei, 2004, China

Lila Says - dir. Ziad Doueiri, 2004, France

Lipstick and Dynamite - dir. Ruth Leitman, 2004, USA

Little Sky - dir. Maria Victoria Menis, 2004, Argentina

The Lizard - dir. Kamal Tabrizi, 2004, Iran

Lonesome Jim - dir. Steve Buscemi, 2005, USA

Long Twilight - dir. Attila Janisch, 1997, Hungary

The Loss of Nameless Things - dir. Bill Rose, 2004, USA

Machuca - dir. Andrés Wood, 2004, Chile

Mad Hot Ballroom - dir. Marilyn Agrelo, 2005, USA

The Making of Alaska Airlines Training Film AL-4637 - dir. T.L. Hannalahan, 2005, USA/Canada/Mexico

Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story - dir. Scot Barbour, 2005, USA

Man About Dog - dir. Paddy Breathnach, 2004, Ireland

The March of the Penguins - dir. Luc Jacquet, 2004, France

Marebito - dir. Takashi Shimizu, 2004, Japan

Mars - dir. Anna Melikian, 2004, Russia

Max & Grace - dir. Michael Parness, 2005, USA

McDull, Prince de la Bun - dir. Toe Yuen, 2004, Hong Kong/China

Me and You and Everyone We Know - dir. Miranda July, 2005, USA

Metallic Blues - dir. Danny Verete, 2004, Israel/Canada/Germany

Midwinter’s Night Dream - dir. Goran Paskaljevic, 2004, Serbia/Montenegro

Missing In America - dir. Gabrielle Savage Dockterman, 2005, USA/Canada

Mongolian Ping Pong - dir. Ning Hao, 2005, China

Murderball - dir. Henry-Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro, 2005, USA

My Stepbrother Frankenstein - dir. Valery Todorovsky, 2004, Russia

My Summer of Love - dir. Pawel Pawlikowski, 2004, United Kingdom

Mysterious Skin - dir. Gregg Araki, 2004, USA

Niceland - dir. Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, 2004, Iceland/Germany/United Kingdom/Denmark

The Night of the Living Dorks - dir. Matthias Dinter, 2004, Germany

The Night of Truth - dir. Fanta Régina Nacro, 2004, Burkina Faso/France

Nightmare - dir. Maxwell Shane, 1956, USA

The Ninth Day - dir. Volker Schlöndorff, 2004, Germany/Luxembourg

No More Tears, Sister: An Anatomy of Hope and Betrayal - dir. Helene Klowdawsky, 2004, Canada

No Songs of Love - dir. Lars Kraume, 2004, Germany

North Korea - Day in the Life - dir. Pieter Fleury, 2004, Netherlands

November - dir. Greg Harrison, 2005, USA

Omagh - dir. Pete Travis, 2004, Ireland/United Kingdom

Open Hearts - dir. Susanne Bier, 2002, Denmark

Our Own - dir. Dmitry Meskhiyev, 2004, Russia

Overlord - dir. Stuart Cooper, 1975, United Kingdom

The Overture - dir. Itthi-sunthon Wichailak, 2004, Thailand

Oyster Farmer - dir. Anna Reeves, 2004, Australia/United Kingdom

The Peach Girl - dir. Bu Wancang, 1931, China

Pizza - dir. Marc Christopher, 2004, USA

Platform - dir. Jia Zhang-ke, 2000, China

Police Beat - dir. Robinson Devor, 2005, USA

Pretty Persuasion - dir. Marcos Siega, 2005, USA

Producing Adults - dir. Aleksi Salmenperä, 2004, Finland/Sweden

Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling - dir. Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, 2005, USA

Punk: Attitude - dir. Don Letts, 2005, USA

Queimada! - dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969, Italy/France

The Real Dirt on Farmer John - dir. Taggart Siegel, 2005, USA

Red Colored Grey Truck - dir. Srdjan Kolijevic, 2004, Serbia/Montenegro/Slovenia/Germany

Red Dust - dir. Tom Hooper, 2004, South Africa/United Kingdom

Redeemer - dir. Claudio Torres, 2005, Brazil

Revolution of Pigs - dir. Jaak Kilmi, René Reinumägi, 2004, Estonia

Rice Rhapsody - dir. Kenneth Bi, 2004, Hong Kong/Singapore

Rock School - dir. Don Argott, 2004, USA

The Role of a Lifetime - dir. Francois Favrat, 2004, France

Rolling Family - dir. Pablo Trapero, 2004, Argentina/Spain/France/Germany/Brazil

Roma - dir. Adolfo Aristarain, 2004, Argentina/Spain

Ronda Nocturna - dir. Edgardo Cozarinsky, 2004, Argentina

R-Point - dir. Gong Su-chang , 2004, South Korea

Sabah - dir. Ruba Nadda, 2005, Canada

Saint Ralph - dir. Michael McGowan, 2004, Canada

Saraband - dir. Ingmar Bergman, 2004, Sweden

Saving Face - dir. Alice Wu, 2005, USA

Seoul Train - dir. Aaron Lubarsky, Jim Butterworth, Lisa Sleeth, 2004, USA

Sergeant Pepper - dir. Sandra Nettelbeck, 2004, Germany

Shadows of Time - dir. Florian Gallenberger, 2004, India/Germany

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire - dir. Peter Raymont, 2004, Canada

Shape of the Moon - dir. Leonard Retel Helmrich, 2004, Netherlands

Somersault - dir. Cate Shortland, 2004, Australia

Steal Me - dir. Melissa Painter, 2005, USA

The Story of My Life - dir. Laurent Tirard, 2004, France

Strings - dir. Anders Ronnow Klarlund, 2004, Denmark/Sweden/United Kingdom/Norway

Summer Storm - dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner, 2004, Germany

Swimmers - dir. Doug Sadler, 2005, USA

The Syrian Bride - dir. Eran Riklis, 2004, Israel/France/Germany

Tell Them Who You Are - dir. Mark S. Wexler, 2004, USA

Tenja, the Last Will - dir. Hassan Legzouli, 2004, Morocco/France

The Thing About My Folks - dir. Raymond De Felitta, 2005, USA

That Man: Peter Berlin - dir. Jim Tushinski, 2005, USA

This Charming Girl - dir. Lee Yoon-ki, 2004, South Korea

Three of Hearts - dir. Susan Kaplan, 2004, USA

Three Dancing Slaves - dir. Gaël Morel, 2004, France

Three...Extremes - dir. Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike, 2004, South Korea/Japan/Hong Kong

Tony Takitani - dir. Jun Ichikawa, 2004, Japan

Touch the Sound - dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer, 2004, Germany/UK

Tropical Malady - dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004, Thailand/France

Trudell - dir. Heather Rae, 2005, USA

Tudo Azul - dir. Jesse Acevedo, 2004, Brazil/Mexico

Twist of Faith - dir. Kirby Dick, 2004, USA

Two Great Sheep - dir. Liu Hao, 2004, China

Unconscious - dir. Joaquín Oristell, 2004, Spain/Germany/Portugal/Italy

Unknown White Male - dir. Rupert Murray, 2004, United Kingdom

Uno - dir. Aksel Hennie, 2004, Norway

Vento di Terra - dir. Vincenzo Marra, 2004, Italy

Vital - dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, 2004, Japan

Waiting for the Clouds - dir. Yesim Ustaoglu, 2004, Turkey/France/Germany/Greece

Wall - dir. Simone Bitton, 2004, Israel/France

The Wandering Shadows - dir. Ciro Guerra, 2004, Colombia

The Warrior - dir. Asif Kapadia, 2001, United Kingdom/France

Warsaw - dir. Dariusz Gajewski, 2003, Poland

The Well - dir. Kristian Petri, 2005, Sweden

Whisky Romeo Zulu - dir. Enrique Piñeyro, 2004, Argentina

A Wonderful Night in Split - dir. Arsen Anton Ostojic, 2004, Croatia

The World - dir. Jia Zhang-ke, 2004, China/Japan/France

A World Without Thieves - dir. Xiaogang Feng, 2004, Hong Kong

Writer of O - dir. Pola Rappaport, 2004, France/USA

Yang Ban Xi: the 8 Model Works - dir. Yan Ting Yuen, 2005, Netherlands

Yasmin - dir. Kenny Glennan, 2004, United Kingdom/Germany

A Year Without Love - dir. Anahí Berneri, 2005, Argentina

Yes - dir. Sally Potter, 2004, United Kingdom

Yesterday - dir. Darrell James Roodt, 2004, South Africa

Special Programs & Events

Alternate Tracks: Reimagining Classic Film Scores 

Archival Films - included 10 feature films 

Emerging Masters: Attila Janisch - included After the Day Before, Long Twilight 

Emerging Masters: Susan Bier - included Brothers, Open Hearts

Emerging Masters: Pablo Trapero - included Crane World, Rolling Family 

Emerging Masters: Jia Zhang-ke - included Platform, The World

An Evening with Peter Sarsgaard

Face the Music - included 12 feature films

Festival Forum: The State of Seattle Filmmaking - seminar guests included Michael Seiwerath, Suzy Kellett, Rick Steveneon, Bill Murray, Andrew McAllister, Jennifer Roth, and moderator Andy Spletzer

Films4Families - included Bluebird, The Circus, Deep Blue, Earthling, Mad Hot Ballroom, The March of the Penguins, Sergeant Pepper, Shorts Program: The Family Picture Show Fly Filmmaking Challenge - included Circus of Infinity, Driver’s Ed, …Loves Martha

Golden Space Needle Awards 

How I Learned to Draw: A Conversation with Miranda July

International Galas - included The Dying Gaul, Red Dust, Bombón El Perro, Cote d’Azur

Midnight Adrenaline - included The Aristocrats, Banlieue 13, Godzilla: Final Wars, A Hole in My Heart, Izo, The Night of the Living Darks, R-Point, Three…Extremes 

New American Cinema - included 22 feature films

New Directors Showcase - included 12 feature films

New Pioneers - included 2 feature films and 11 short films 

Northwest Film Forum presents The Art of Film Financing - seminar guests included Gregg Lachow, Jeffrey Brown, David Miller, Randy Brinson, and moderator Sandy Cioffi

Poster Auction and Exhibition 

Refracting Reality: Documentary Films - included 41 feature films

Rock School Jam at Neumo’s

Screenwriters Salon: Our Favorite Scenes 

Seattle Summit: What Does It Really Mean To Be an Independent in Today’s Film Business?

Short Films - included The Family Picture Show, C’est la Femme, Experimental Voices, The Animated Guide to Life, ¡Cinema Fantastico!, Greek Love, Accidentally Growing Up, Left Turn, Seriously Gay, House Arrest 

SIFF Classroom: Apple Portable Classroom - included Introduction to Final Cut Pro, Advanced Techniques in Final Cut Pro, Advanced Techniques in Final Cut Pro, DVD Authoring and DVD Studio Pro, Introduction to Motion, 3D for Film Made Simple with Maya 

Spawned in Seattle - included 4 feature films, 10 short films, and 4 Fly Films 

SIFF’s Secret Festival 

Special Presentations - included Howl’s Moving Castle, 36 Quai Des OrfÈvres, Murderball

Special Presentation: Zana Briski presents Born Into Brothels 

Talking Pictures - included The Gits, Being Caribou, Unknown White Male 

¡Viva Argentina! - included 12 feature films 

Women in Cinema: An Afternoon with Joan Allen