Seattle International Film Festival 2011 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2011

Relive the 37th 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 2011 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 19–June 12, 2011
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Admiral Theater, Cinerama Theatre, Benroya Hall, Egyptian Theatre, Everett Performing Arts Center, Harvard Exit Theatre, IMAX at Pacific Science Center, Juanita Beach Park, Kirkland Performance Center, Majestic Bay, Neptune Theatre, AMC Pacific Place 11, Triple Door, SIFF Cinema at Nesholm Family Lecture Hall, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Renton Ikea Performing Arts Center

Opening Night: The First Grader at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
Closing Night: Life in a Day at Cinerama Theatre
Tribute: Ewan McGregor, Warren Miller
Emerging Masters: Fernando Leon de Aranoa, Reha Erdem


FESTIVAL CATALOG


TRAILER

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

Tribute guest, actor, Ewan McGregor, director, Mike Mills, and SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, pose with Beginners poster at a recpetion at Hotel Sorrento

Tribute guest, actor, Ewan McGregor, director, Mike Mills, and SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, pose with Beginners poster at a recpetion at Hotel Sorrento

Tribute guest, actor, Ewan McGregor, director, Mike Mills, and SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, pose with Beginners poster at a recpetion at Hotel Sorrento

Tribute guest, actor, Ewan McGregor, director, Mike Mills, and SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, pose with Beginners poster at a recpetion at Hotel Sorrento

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Maryna Ajaja, Justine Barda, Dan Doody, and Dustin Kaspar, current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, 2010 Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Managing Director, Deborah Person

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Maryna Ajaja, Justine Barda, Dan Doody, and Dustin Kaspar, current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, 2010 Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Managing Director, Deborah Person

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Maryna Ajaja, Justine Barda, Dan Doody, and Dustin Kaspar, current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, 2010 Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Managing Director, Deborah Person

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Maryna Ajaja, Justine Barda, Dan Doody, and Dustin Kaspar, current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, 2010 Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Managing Director, Deborah Person

Life In A Day
Life In A Day
Service Entrance
Service Entrance
Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood
Beginners
Beginners
The First Grader
The First Grader
Paper Birds
Paper Birds
On The Ice
On The Ice

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Paper Birds (dir. Emilia Aragon, Spain)

Best Director
Larysa Kondracki (The Whistleblower, Canada/Germany)

Best Actress
Natasha Petrovic (As If I Am Not There)

Best Actor
Bill Skarsgard (Simple Simon)

Best Short
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, USA)

Best Documentary
To Be Heard (dir. Amy Sultan, Roland Legiardia-Laura, Edwin Martinez, and Deborah Shaffer, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Gandu (dir. “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee, India)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
On the Ice (dir. Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, USA)

Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Hot Coffee (dir. Susan Saladoff, USA)

List of Feature-Length Films

12 Angry Lebanese: The Documentary - dir. Zeina Daccache, 2010, Lebanon 

12 Paces Without a Head - dir. Sven Taddicken, 2010, Germany 

22nd of May - dir. Koen Mortier, 2010, Belgium 

3 - dir. Tom Tykwer, 2010, Germany

71 - Into the Fire - dir. John H. Lee, 2010, South Korea 

Above Us Only Sky - dir. Jan Schomburg, 2011, Germany 

Absent - dir. Marco Berger, 2011, Argentina

An African Election - dir. Jarreth Merz, 2010, Ghana/Switzerland/USA

All Your Dead Ones - dir. Carlos Moreno, 2010, Colombia

Almanya - dir. Yasemin Samdereli, 2011, Germany

Amador - dir. Fernando León de Aranoa, 2011, Spain 

Angel of Evil - dir. Michele Placido, 2010, Italy 

Another Earth - dir. Mike Cahill, 2011, USA

Apart Together - dir. Wang Quan’an, 2010, China 

Artificial Paradises - dir. Yulene Olaizola, 2011, Mexico 

As If I Am Not There - dir. Juanita Wilson, 2010, Ireland/Macedonia/Sweden

August - dir. Eldar Rapaport, 2011, USA 

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - dir. Jay Roach, 1999, USA 

Backyard - dir. Árni Sveinsson, 2010, Iceland 

A Barefoot Dream - dir. Kim Tae-gyun, 2010, South Korea /East Timor

Beginners - dir. Mike Mills, 2010, USA 

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey - dir. Constance Marks, 2011, USA 

Belle Epine - dir. Rebecca Zlotowski, 2010, France

Bellflower - dir. Evan Glodell, 2011, USA 

The Bengali Detective - dir. Phil Cox, 2011, India/UK/USA

Bibliothèque Pascal - dir. Szabolcs Hajdu, 2010, Hungary/Germany/Romania/United Kingdom

Bicycle, Spoon, Apple - dir. Carles Bosch, 2010, Spain/Argentina/India/USA/Netherlands

Bi, Don’t Be Afraid! - dir. Phan Dang Di, 2010, Vietnam/Germany/France

Black Bread - dir. Agusti Villaronga, 2010, Spain 

Black Field - dir. Vardis Marinakis, 2010, Greece 

Black Narcissus - dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947, United Kingdom 

Black Venus - dir. Abdellatif Kechiche, 2010, France 

Black, White and Blues - dir. Mario Van Peebles, 2010, USA 

Blinding - dir. Steve Sanguedolce, 2011, Canada 

Bobby Fischer Against the World - dir. Liz Garbus, 2011, USA 

Bon Appétit - dir. David Pinillos, 2010, Spain/Germany/Switzerland/Italy

Boy - dir. Taika Waititi, 2010, New Zealand 

Bruce Lee, My Brother - dir. Raymond Yip, Manfred Wong, 2010, Hong Kong 

Buck - dir. Cindy Meehl, 2011, USA 

Burke & Hare - dir. John Landis, 2010, United Kingdom 

Cairo 678 - dir. Mohamed Diab, 2010, Egypt

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff - dir. Craig McCall, 2010, United Kingdom 

The Catechism Cataclysm - dir. Todd Rohal, 2011, USA 

A Cat In Paris - dir. Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli, 2010, France/Belgium/Netherlands/Switzerland

The Child Prodigy - dir. Luc Dionne, 2010, Canada (Québec) 

Circumstance - dir. Maryam Keshavarz, 2011, Iran/Lebanon

Circus Dreams - dir. Signe Taylor, 2011, USA 

Clink of Ice - dir. Bertrand Blier, 2010, France 

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same - dir. Madeleine Olnek, 2011, USA 

Copacabana - dir. Marc Fitoussi, 2010, France 

Crying Out - dir. Robin Aubertl, 2010, Canada (Québec) 

Dance Town - dir. Jeon Kyu-hwan, 2010, South Korea 

The Darkest Matter - dir. James Fox, 2011, USA 

The Destiny of Lesser Animals - dir. Deron Albright, 2011, Ghana/USA

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame - dir. Tsui Hark, 2010, China 

Detention - dir. Joseph Kahn, 2011, USA 

Donor - dir. Mark Afable Meily, 2010, Philippines 

Do You See Colors When You Close Your Eyes? - dir. Caleb Young, 2011, USA 

El Bulli: Cooking In Progress - dir. Gereon Wetzel, 2010, Germany 

The Empire of Mid-South - dir. Jacques Perrin, Eric Deroo, 2010, France 

Eternity - dir. Sivaroj Kongsakul, 2010, Thailand 

Every Song is About Me - dir. Jonas Trueba, 2010, Spain

Everything Will Be Fine - dir. Christoffer Boe, 2010, Denmark/Sweden/Germany

Ex - dir. Heiward Mak, 2010, Hong Kong 

Fathers & Sons - dir. Carl Bessai, 2010, Canada 

A Few Days of Respite - dir. Amor Hakkar, 2011, Algeria/France

Finding Kind - dir. Lauren Parsekian, 2011, USA 

Finisterrae - dir. Sergio Caballero, 2010, Spain 

Fire In Babylon - dir. Stevan Riley, 2010, United Kingdom 

Fire of Conscience - dir. Dante Lam, 2010, Hong Kong 

The First Grader - dir. Justin Chadwick, 2010, United Kingdom/Kenya

Flamenco, Flamenco - dir. Carlos Saura, 2010, Spain 

Flying Fish - dir. Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, 2011, Sri Lanka 

Four More Years - dir. Tova Magnusson-Norling, 2010, Sweden 

Fuck My Life - dir. Nicolás López, 2010, Chile 

Funkytown - dir. Daniel Roby, 2011, Canada (Québec) 

The Future - dir. Miranda July, 2011, USA/Germany/UK

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life - dir. Joann Sfar, 2010, France 

Gandu - dir. Kaushik Mukherjee, 2010, India 

Gorbaciòf - The Cashier Who Liked Gambling - dir. Stefano Incerti, 2010, Italy

Grandma, A Thousand Times - dir. Mahmoud Kaabour, 2010, United Arab Emirates/Qatar/Lebanon

The Green Wave - dir. Ali Samadi Ahadi, 2010, Germany/Iran

Gromozeka - dir. Vladimir Kott, 2010, Russia 

Gun Hill Road - dir. Rashaad Ernesto Green, 2011, USA 

Happy, Happy - dir. Anne Sewitsky, 2010, Norway

Hayfever - dir. Laura Luchetti, 2010, Italy 

Heading West - dir. Nicole van Kilsdonk, 2010, Netherlands 

Hermano - dir. Marcel Rasquin, 2010, Venezuela 

High Road - dir. Matt Walsh, 2011, USA 

Hit So Hard - dir. P. David Ebersole, 2011, USA 

Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians - dir. Bryan Storkel, 2011, USA 

Honey - dir. Semih Kaplanoglu, 2010, Turkey/Germany

Hooked - dir. Pavel Sanayev, 2010, Russia

Hot Coffee - dir. Susan Saladoff, 2011, USA 

How to Die in Oregon - dir. Peter D. Richardson, 2011, USA 

The Hunter - dir. Rafi Pitts, 2010, Iran/Germany

Hurricane Kalatozov - dir. Patrick Cazals, 2010, France 

If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front - dir. Marshall Curry, 2011, USA

If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle - dir. Florin Serban, 2010, Romania/Sweden

Illegal - dir. Olivier Masset-Depasse, 2010, Belgium/Luxembourg/France

The Importance of Being Earnest - dir. Brian Bedford, 2011, United Kingdom 

The Interrupters - dir. Steve James, 2011, USA 

The Intruder - dir. Thanadol Nualsuth, 2010, Thailand 

Jess + Moss - dir. Clay Jeter, 2011, USA 

Johan Primero - dir. Johan Kramer, 2010, Netherlands/Spain

John Carpenter’s The Ward - dir. John Carpenter, 2010, USA 

Juan - dir. Kasper Holten, 2010, Denmark 

Jucy - dir. Louise Alston, 2010, Australia 

Karate-Robo Zaborgar - dir. Noboru Iguchi, 2011, Japan 

Killing Bono - dir. Nick Hamm, 2011, United Kingdom 

King of Devil’s Island - dir. Marius Holst, 2010, Norway 

Kinshasa Symphony - dir. Claus Wischmann, Martin Baer , 2010, Germany 

Kosmos - dir. Reha Erdem, 2009, Turkey/Bulgaria

Kung Fu Panda 2 - dir. Jennifer Yuh, 2011, USA 

La Dolce Vita - dir. Federico Fellini, 1960, Italy 

The Last Circus - dir. Álex de la Iglesia, 2010, Spain/France

The Last Mountain - dir. Bill Haney, 2011, USA 

Late Autumn - dir. Kim Tae-yong, 2010, South Korea/Hong Kong/USA

Lesson Plan - dir. Philip Neel, David H. Jeffrey, 2010, USA/Germany

Letters From the Big Man - dir. Christopher Munch, 2011, USA 

Life in a Day - dir. Kevin Macdonald, 2011, United Kingdom 

The Life of Fish - dir. Matías Bize, 2010, Chile 

Littlerock - dir. Mike Ott, 2010, USA

Lope - dir. Andrucha Waddington, 2010, Spain/Brazil

A Lot Like You - dir. Eliaichi Kimaro, 2011, Tanzania/USA

LOVE - dir. William Eubank, 2011, USA 

Love Crime - dir. Alain Corneau, 2010, France 

Love Like Poison - dir. Katell Quillevere, 2010, France 

Lys - dir. Krystof Zlatnik, 2011, Germany 

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place - dir. Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney, 2011, USA 

The Majority - dir. Seren Yüce, 2010, Turkey 

Mama Africa - dir. Mika Kaurismäki, 2011, South Africa/Germany/Finland

Mamas & Papas - dir. Alice Nellis, 2010, Czech Republic 

Mammuth - dir. Benoît Delépine, Gustave de Kervern, 2010, France 

Man at Bath - dir. Christophe Honoré, 2010, France 

Marathon Boy - dir. Gemma Atwal, 2010, India/United Kingdom/USA

Marrow - dir. Matt Wilkins, 2011, USA 

Mars - dir. Geoff Marslett, 2009, USA 

A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt - dir. Sally Rowe, 2011, USA 

Microphone - dir. Ahmad Abdalla, 2010, Egypt

Mondays In the Sun - dir. Fernando León de Aranoa, 2002, Spain

The Most Important Thing in Life Is Not Being Dead - dir. Olivier Pictel, Pablo Martin Torrado, Mark Recuenco, 2010, Switzerland/Spain

Moulin Rouge! - dir. Baz Luhrmann, 2001, USA

The Mountain - dir. Ole Glæver, 2011, Norway

My Afternoons With Margueritte - dir. Jean Becker, 2010, France

My So-Called Enemy - dir. Lisa Gossels, 2010, USA

Mysteries of Lisbon - dir. Raúl Ruiz, 2010, Portugal/France

The Names of Love - dir. Michel Leclerc, 2010, France

Natural Selection - dir. Robbie Pickering, 2011, USA

The Night of Counting the Years - dir. Shadi Abdel Salam, 1969, Egypt

Nobody - dir. Christos Nikoleris, 2010, Greece

Norman - dir. Jonathan Segal, 2010, USA

Norwegian Wood - dir. Tran Anh Hung, 2010, Japan

Nothing’s All Bad - dir. Mikkel Munch-Fals, 2010, Denmark

Nuummioq - dir. Otto Rosing, Torben Bech, 2010, Greenland

The Off Hours - dir. Megan Griffiths, 2011, USA

Old Goats - dir. Taylor Guterson, 2010, USA

Oliver Sherman - dir. Ryan Redford, 2010, Canada

On the Ice - dir. Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, 2011, USA

On Tour - dir. Mathieu Amalric, 2010, France

Our Home - dir. Wagner de Assis, 2010, Brazil

Our Life - dir. Daniele Luchetti, 2010, Italy/France

Outrage - dir. Takeshi Kitano, 2010, Japan

Outside the Law - dir. Rachid Bouchareb, 2010, Algeria/France/Tunisia/Italy/Belgium

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow - dir. Sophie Fiennes, 2010, United Kingdom/France/The Netherlands

Page One: Inside the New York Times - dir. Andrew Rossi, 2011, USA

Paper Birds - dir. Emilio Aragón, 2010, Spain

Perfect Sense - dir. David Mackenzie, 2011, United Kingdom/Germany/Sweden/Denmark

The Pillow Book - dir. Peter Greenaway, 1996, France/UK/Netherlands/Luxembourg

Pinoy Sunday - dir. Wi Ding Ho, 2010, Taiwan/Philippines/Japan/France

The Pipe - dir. Risteard Ó Domhnaill, 2010, Ireland

The Poll Diaries - dir. Chris Kraus, 2010, Germany/Austria/Estonia

Por El Camino - dir. Charly Braun, 2010, Brazil/Uruguay

Poupoupidou (Nobody Else but You) - dir. Gerald Hustache-Mathieu, 2011, France/Switzerland

PressPausePlay - dir. David Dworsky, Victor Köhler, 2011, Sweden

Princess - dir. Arto Halonen, 2010, Finland

Project Nim - dir. James Marsh, 2011, United Kingdom

Qarantina - dir. Oday Rasheed, 2010, Iraq/Germany

A Quiet Life - dir. Claudio Cupellini, 2010, Italy/Germany/France

Red Eagle - dir. Wisit Sasanatieng, 2010, Thailand

The Redemption of General Butt Naked - dir. Daniele Anastasion, Eric Strauss, 2011, USA

Red Eyes - dir. Juan Pablo Sallato, Ismael Larrain, Juan Ignacio Sabatini, 2011, Chile

Rene Goes To Hollywood - dir. Aleko Tsabadze, 2010, Georgia

The Rescuers - dir. Michael King, 2011, USA

Revenge: A Love Story - dir. Wong Ching Po, 2010, Hong Kong

Revenge of the Electric Car - dir. Chris Paine, 2011, USA

Roadie - dir. Michael Cuesta, 2011, USA

Romeos - dir. Sabine Bernardi, 2011, Germany

Rosario - dir. Alberto Martinez, 2010, Philippines

Rothstein's First Assignment - dir. Richard Knox Robinson, 2010, USA

Route Irish - dir. Ken Loach, 2010, United Kingdom/France/Belgium/Italy/Spain

Saigon Electric - dir. Stephane Gauger, 2011, Vietnam/USA

Salvation Boulevard - dir. George Ratliff, 2011, USA

Sandcastle - dir. Boo Junfeng, 2010, Singapore

The Sandman and the Lost Sand of Dreams - dir. Jesper Moller, Sinem Sakagolu, 2010, Germany

A Screaming Man - dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2010, Chad/France/Belgium

Service Entrance - dir. Philippe Le Guay, 2011, France

Sevdah for Karim - dir. Jasmin Duraković, 2010, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Hungary

Shocking Blue - dir. Mark de Cloe, 2010, Netherlands

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure - dir. Matthew Bate, 2011, Australia

Silent Sonata - dir. Janez Burger, 2011, Slovenia/Ireland/Finland

Silent Souls - dir. Aleksei Fedorchenko, 2010, Russia

Simple Simon - dir. Andreas Öhman, 2010, Sweden

Small Town Murder Songs - dir. Ed Gass-Donnelly, 2010, Canada

Snow White - dir. Angelin Preljocaj, 2010, France

Something Ventured - dir. Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine, 2011, USA

The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical - dir. Sarah McCarthy, 2010, United Kingdom

Sound of Noise - dir. Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, 2010, Sweden/France

Spark of Being - dir. Bill Morrison, 2010, USA

Spud - dir. Donovan Marsh, 2010, South Africa

Steam of Life - dir. Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen, 2010, Finland/Sweden

The Stool Pigeon - dir. Dante Lam, 2010, Hong Kong/China

Submarine - dir. Richard Ayoade, 2010, United Kingdom

Summer Coda - dir. Richard Gray, 2010, Australia/USA

Surrogate Valentine - dir. Dave Boyle, 2011, USA

Sushi: The Global Catch - dir. Mark Hall, 2011, USA

Tabloid - dir. Errol Morris, 2010, USA

Terri - dir. Azazel Jacobs, 2011, USA

These Amazing Shadows - dir. Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton, 2011, USA

The Thief of Bagdad: Re-imagined by Shadoe Stevens with the Music of E.L.O. - dir. Raoul Walsh, 1924, USA

Third Star - dir. Hattie Dalton, 2010, United Kingdom

A Thousand Fools - dir. Ventura Pons, 2011, Spain

A Thousand Times Stronger - dir. Peter Schildt, 2010, Sweden

Tilt - dir. Viktor Chouchkov Jr., 2010, Bulgaria/Germany

Times and Winds - dir. Reha Erdem, 2006, Turkey

Toast - dir. SJ Clarkson, 2011, United Kingdom

To Be Heard - dir. Amy Sultan, Roland Legiardi-Laura, Deborah Shaffer, Edwin Martinez, 2010, USA

Tomorrow Will Be Better - dir. Dorota Kedzierzawska, 2010, Poland/Japan

Tornado Alley - dir. Sean Casey, 2011, USA

Touch - dir. Minh Duc Nguyen, 2011, USA

Toy Story: Hawaiian Vacation + a Look at Cars 2, dir. Gary Rydstrom, 2011, USA

Treatment - dir. Steven Schardt, Sean Nelson, 2011, USA

Trigger - dir. Bruce McDonald, 2010, Canada

The Trip - dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2010, United Kingdom

Trollhunter - dir. André Øvredal, 2010, Norway

Tyrannosaur - dir. Paddy Considine, 2011, United Kingdom

Vampire - dir. Iwai Shunji, 2011, Canada/USA

Venice - dir. Jan Jakub Kolski, 2010, Poland

The Village of Shadows - dir. Fouad Benhammou, 2010, France

Viva Riva! - dir. Djo Tunda Wa Munga, 2010, Democratic Republic of Congo/France/Belgium/South Africa

Wasted on the Young - dir. Ben C. Lucas, 2010, Australia

We Are the Night - dir. Dennis Gansel, 2010, Germany

Weekend - dir. Andrew Haigh, 2011, United Kingdom

The Whisperer in Darkness - dir. Sean Branney, 2011, USA

The Whistleblower - dir. Larysa Kondracki, 2010, Canada/Germany

White Irish Drinkers - dir. John Gray, 2010, USA

The White Meadows - dir. Mohammad Rasoulof, 2009, Iran

Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour - dir. Kerthy Fix, 2011, USA

Winds of Heaven - dir. Michael Ostroff, 2010, Canada

Winnie the Pooh - dir. Stephen Anderson, Don Hall, 2011, USA

Win/Win - dir. Jaap van Heusden, 2010, Netherlands

Without - dir. Mark Jackson, 2011, USA

Womb - dir. Benedek Fliegauf, 2010, Germany/Hungary/France

The Yellow Sea - dir. Na Hong-jin, 2010, South Korea

You Are Here - dir. Daniel Cockburn, 2010, Canada

Young Goethe in Love - dir. Philipp Stölzl, 2010, Germany

Special Programs & Events

3-Minute Masterpieces

Alternate Cinema - included 4 feature films and one shorts package

Archival Films - included 6 feature films

Asian Crossroads - included 10 feature films

Asian Crossroads Party: Saigon Electric

Centerpiece Gala: Service Entrance at Egyptian Theatre

Digital Media Lab - included 6 filmmaking workshops

Documentary Competition - included 10 feature films

Emerging Masters: Fernando León de Aranoa - included Mondays in the Sun, Amador, Reha Erdem - included Times and Winds, Kosmos

Everett Opening Night: Young Goethe in Love at Everett Performing Arts Center

Face the Music - included 8 feature films and 3 special events

Face the Music: Damien Jurado and the Russian Avant-Garde

Face the Music: Music From The Film Winter’s Bone Performed Live in Concert

Face the Music: The Thief of Bagdad Re-imagined by Shadoe Stevens with the Music of E.L.O.

Festival Forums: Four Peaks Salon: Entertainment and Innovation: The Fusion of Film and Gaming in the Pacific Northwest - seminar guests included Lynn Shelton, Matt Vancil, The Darkest Matter Green Screen Workshop, Finding, Funding…Feature!

Films4Families - included 9 feature films and one shorts package

Fly Filmmaking Challenge

FutureWave - included 9 feature films and one shorts package

Gay-La: August at Egyptian Theatre

Golden Space Needle Awards

Kirkland Opening Night: Bon Appétit at Kirkland Performance Center

New American Cinema - included 19 feature films

New American Cinema Party: The Future

New Directors Competition - included 10 feature films

Northwest Connections - included 14 feature films

Outdoor Screening: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Quarantine Midnight Adrenaline - included 8 feature films

Renton Opening Night: Black, White and Blues at Renton Ikea Performing Arts Center

Secret Festival

Short Films - included 15 shorts packages

Special Presentations: The Importance of Being Earnest, Mysteries of Lisbon, Norwegian Wood, Tornado Alley, The White Meadows

SuperFly Filmmaking

Toy Story: Hawaiian Vacation + a Look at Cars 2, dir. Gary Rydstrom, 2011, USA

Tribute: Ewan McGregor - included Beginners, Perfect Sense, The Pillow Book, Moulin Rouge!

Tribute: Warren Miller