Post Alley Film Festival presented by Women in Film Seattle

Various

March 29, 2025

Post Alley Film Festival is a one-day festival of woman-centric and eccentric short films by established, award-winning, and emerging filmmakers from around the block and around the globe. Films by women for everyone. Celebrate our 15th Season with us!

SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this event.

SCHEDULE

10:30am - Doors open
11:00am - Seating & welcome by Virginia Bogert, PAFF Founder/Director
11:10am - Beginning & Endings
12:10pm - Life or Something Else
1:10pm - Lunch Break
2:10pm - Family Ties
3:30pm - Break, Trivia, and SIFF Give-away with Hannah Baek
3:40pm - Family Ties continued
4:50pm - Docs Rock
5:25pm - Coming of Age
6:25pm - A Lighter Side
7:00pm - Goodbyes and last chance at auction goodies
7:00-9:00pm – Reception

PAFF is sponsored Women in Film Seattle, a 509(a)2 non-profit; and by Laughing Dog Pictures.

Director: Various

Lineup & Schedule:

11:10am - Beginning & Endings

Waiting By the Phone

Animation Drama, US, 2019 | 3:35
Director/Writer/Producer Olivia Jensen
Language: English

Seattle Premiere

A young woman struggles to live her life while coping with the tragic truth about her sister.

Nélida

Drama, Argentina, 2023 | 18:00
Director/Writer Marina Artigas, Producer Federico Cetta
Language: Portuguese with English Subtitles

US Premiere

Nélida receives a call that cracks her perception of reality and the wall she’s built around hereself.

Blue Print

Blueprint

Drama, UK, 2023 | 10:00
Director/Writer/Producer Lada Kopytova
Language: English
World Premiere: Courts D'Un Soir Montreal 2024 - Best Aspiring Filmmaker

Seattle Premiere

A couple looks back on their relationship. Did they follow all the rules?

Everything Is You

Memoir, US, 2024 | 5:00
Director/Writer/Producer Jaymica Abenojar Rapisura
Language: English
Content Warning: suicide

West Coast Premiere

Q&A with Director Jaymica Abenojar Rapisura.

Each day, at every turn, a young woman deals with her loss. Student film. Jaymica attends the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

Death Pays Flora a Visit

Comedy, US, 2024 | 12:05
Director Tanna Frederick: Writer/Producer Sy Rosen
Sy Rosen, known for M*A*S*H, Taxi, The Bob Newhart Show, Frasier, Northern Exposure
Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight, Runaway Train, The Expendables); Mimi Kennedy (Pump Up the Volume, Erin Brockovich)
Language: English
14 US Festivals, Best Short Gig Harbor Film Festival 2024

Seattle Premiere

Death (Eric Roberts) visits unsuspecting Flora (Mimi Kennedy); Flora doesn't want to go. There's so much still to do!

12:10pm – Life or Something Else

Sweatshop Girl

Director/Writer Selma Cervantes, Writer Indra Villaseñor Amador,
Producers Solange Alonso Caballero, Selma Cervantes, Bruno Gaeta, Jim Stark, Natasha Dupeyron, Yago Muñoz
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
Premiered at Sundance

PNW Premiere

A factory seamstress has to keep her pregnancy a secret or she’ll lose her job.

The Vote

Drama, US, 2024 | 14:20
Director/Writer Silvia Ray; Producers Axel Caballero, Annie Huang, Andrea Porras Madero, Erika Sabel Flores, John Schorg
Language: English
Content Warning: DNR subject matter

Seattle Premiere

Amid opposite views, siblings navigate a difficult life or death decision.

Chicken Soup

Language: Turkish with English subtitles
The director’s first film.
Content Warning: Morgue Scene

US Premiere

A husband dies of a heart attack; forensics tell a different story. Q&A with actress Name Önal.

1:10pm - LUNCH INTERMISSION One Hour

2:10pm - Family Ties

Sour Milk

Drama, Estonia, 2023 | 22:49
Director Vera Pirogova, Writer Filip Jokanović, Producer Jon Gojani
Language: Estonian with English subtitles

US Premiere

A ne'er do-well son comes home uninvited. Expectations and disappointments abound.

The Claimant

Drama, Iran, 2024 | 20:00
A first time filmmaker.
Language: Farsi with English subtitles

PNW Premiere

A father seeks retribution for his teen aged daughter. In a patriarchal system, the rights of women and children are violated as are the voices of their male defenders.

The Genie

Drama, France, 2024| 15:18
Director/Writer Enricka M.H; Producer Caïmans Productions
Language: French with English Subtitles
Rencontres cinéma de Gindou Dakar Court, Les Capucines du cinéma français, CinéMartinique, Prix coup de cœur-BLKREATION Film Festival, MIFF Best International Short, Mumbai International Film Festival.

US Premiere

A brother and sister who fight like cats and dogs, encounter a strange man who grants them a wish.

Navidad de Reserva

Drama, Argentina 2024 | 11:14
Director/Writer Roberta Cumbianchera; Producers Kendra Strahm, Madison E. Cattle
Language: English/Portuguese with English Subtitles
NY Latino Film Festival, Puerto Rico Film Festival, Klamath Independent Film Festival, Portland Festival of Cinema, ''Visions'' Grant by Women in Film Portland; Grand Prize Post Production, ''Script to Screen'' Grant by Couch Film Collective Portland, Grand Prize Best Screenplay, Latino Artists Grant

Q&A with Director/Writer Roberta Cumbianchera; Producers Kendra Strahm

Seattle Premiere

A South American immigrant struggles to connect with the American Dream on Christmas Eve.

3:30pm BREAK with SIFF’s Hannah Baek for a SIFF Give-away

3:40pm FAMILY TIES continued

Insure Domestic Tranquility

Drama, US 2023 | 14:58
Director /Writer/ Q M Kuhns, her first film
Producers Jennifer Marshall Garcia, Lulu Gargiulo, Director of Photography Lulu Gargiulo
Language: English
Content warning: Gun violence

After the government is toppled, widespread violence and disorder causes people to band together for safety. But not Rachel and Jamie, a young married couple living in their isolated mountain home as if nothing has changed.

Match Dot Mom

Comedy, US, 2024 | 14:35
Director/Writer Tara Parian, Producers Eve Symington, Stacey Haid
Language: English
Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival (script finalist); Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival (screenplay); Black Magic Collective Film Festival, Los Angeles - Winner of Best Director, Best Actor, Audience Award; Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival Sydney, Australia; New Filmmakers LA; UCLA Film Festival.

PNW Premiere

Cass accidentally swipes right upon a TindHER profile; now she must grapple with the ramifications. Mom? Whut thuh?

We Should Eat

Comedy, US 2024 | 9:24
Director/Writer Shaina Feinberg, Producers Noam Dromi
Language: English
Content Warning: language

West Coast Premiere

A 12-year-old’s school project on identity at family dinner causes them to rethink who they are.

Boxes

Comedy, US 2024 | 14:16
Director/Writer/Producer Esha More; Producer Pratidhwani
Language: English
Esha More is the recipient of the Women in Film Seattle Professional Grant 2024
Premiered at Tasveer, Seattle WA

Q&A with Esha More, Writer/Director Boxes. Q&A with Lulu Gargiulo, DP, Producer Insure Domestic Tranquility.

A feisty South Asian immigrant navigates the chaos of her family's move from their home in America.

4:50pm - Docs Rock

Tattoo Witch

They Call Me the Tattoo Witch

Documentary Vietnam, 2023 | 14:18
Director/Producer Lindsay Nyman
Language: English, Vietnamese with English subtitles
Content Warning: nudity

PNW Premiere

A maverick tattoo artist shares her rare art of tattooing and her profound impact on her clients. All Hanoi woman crew.

Voices of Miscarriage: Laure

Voices of Miscarriage: Lauren

Documentary, US, 2023 | 9:18
Directed/Filmed/Edited by Adrienne von Wolffersdorff
Language: English

Q&A with Adrienne von Wolffersdorff.

Lauren shares her story of pregnancy, loss, and her journey to build a family.

5:25pm – Coming of Age

Grace

Drama, US 2023 | 13:54
Director/Writer Natalie Jasmine Harris, Producers Natalia Bougadellis, Debra Bright, Fashen Cox, Natalie Jasmine Harris, Juklia Kennelly, Morgan Powell, Samiyah Wardlaw, Latavia Young
Language: English

Premiered at Sundance, NFFTY Grant winner

In the segregated South of the 1950’s, a girl questions her faith and sexuality on the eve of her baptism.

Mañana

Drama, Columbia, 2023 | 14:29
Director/Writer Ingrid Perez Lopez, Producers César Heredia Cruz, Ingrid Perez Lopez, Lina Rizo
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Columbian Film Fund Production Award winner

US Premiere

A little girl discovers an unhappy truth on the eve of her First Communion. Will her family survive this.

To Little Me

Animation, Uzbekistan, 2023 | 2:30
Director/Writer/Producer/Narrator Amina Mavlyan-Khodjaeva
Language: Russian with English subtitles

US Premiere

A little girl is harassed on the bus; her inner self comes to her aid.

Stay Here

Drama, US, 2024 | 13:34
Director/Writer Marley Rankin, Producer Rabbani Kaur
Language: English

PNW Premiere

Q&A with Marley Rankin and DP Alaina Stehlin, Stay Here.

A 14-year-old girl obsessed with womanhood, eagerly awaits the milestones to growing up but there’s a harsh reality to being an adult. “Welcome to the club.”

6:25pm - A Lighter Side

A Broad Abroad

RomCom, US, 2023 | 27:00
Director Debra Praille, Writer/Prod. Heather Pilder Olson, Prod. Kira Sipler, Starring Angela DiMarco
Language: English
Parlermo Film Fest Winner, Studio City Film Festival, LA Independent Woman's Festival, Hong Kong Indie Festival, Istanbul Movie Awards, Florence Indie Festival

Q&A Debra Praille, Heather Olson, Angela DiMarco, David Hogan.

To resurrect her career, a former A-list actress takes a D-list job as a travel show host; but her director gets arrested, and she must save the show, her job, and her budding romance with her camera man.