Behind-the-scenes shot of, director, Miguel Arteta, participating in the Fly Filmmaking Challenge
Relive the 24th 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 1998 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 21–June 14, 1998
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Broadway Performance Hall, Egyptian Theatre, Guild 45th Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, 5th Avenue Theater
Opening Night: Firelight at 5th Avenue Theatre
Closing Night: This Is My Father at Egyptian Theatre
Photos
Behind-the-scenes shot of, director, Miguel Arteta, participating in the Fly Filmmaking Challenge
Festival founder, Dan Ireland and actress, Salma Hayek, at the 1998 Secret Festival
Back Row (left to right): Nancy Kennedy, Jeanette Liao, Cindy Hoots, Brad Cerenizia, Lyssa Brown, Kim Ross, Darryl Macdonald, Maryna Albert, Christine Cook,Terri Murphy, Christopher Fekete,Wendy Jo Carlton, W arren Etheredge, Holly Becker, John Giaccone; Middle Row (left to right): Misty McKinney, Chris Ophoven, Julie Mullaney, Doug Cavarocchi, Susanna Burney, Chris Wiggum, Carl Spence, Justine Alten, Charles McEherney, Christy Collins, Allison Kelly, Litsa Dremousis, Greg White; Front Row (left to right): Kathleen Mclnnis,Steve Johnson,William Azaroff, Chris McKoy, Marion Seymour, Jim Gibbs, Dennis Laurence, Michele Goodson, Deborah Person
Back Row (left to right): Nancy Kennedy, Jeanette Liao, Cindy Hoots, Brad Cerenizia, Lyssa Brown, Kim Ross, Darryl Macdonald, Maryna Albert, Christine Cook,Terri Murphy, Christopher Fekete,Wendy Jo Carlton, W arren Etheredge, Holly Becker, John Giaccone; Middle Row (left to right): Misty McKinney, Chris Ophoven, Julie Mullaney, Doug Cavarocchi, Susanna Burney, Chris Wiggum, Carl Spence, Justine Alten, Charles McEherney, Christy Collins, Allison Kelly, Litsa Dremousis, Greg White; Front Row (left to right): Kathleen Mclnnis,Steve Johnson,William Azaroff, Chris McKoy, Marion Seymour, Jim Gibbs, Dennis Laurence, Michele Goodson, Deborah Person
SIFFers eagerly await the next screening at the Egyptian
Director, Julia Sweeney, discussing her film, God Said Ha!, from the stage
Director, Julie Lynch, and actress, Christine Harnos, in town for their film, Remembering Sex (later renamed Getting Off)
Best Film
God Said Ha! (dir. Julia Sweeney, USA)
Best Director
Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, USA)
Best Actress
Christina Ricci (Buffalo 66 / The Opposite of Sex)
Best Actor
Stephen Fry (Wilde)
Best Short
Sin Sostén (dir. Rene Castinello/Antonio Urrutia, Belgium)
Best Documentary
Frank Lloyd Wright (dir. Ken Burns/Lynn Novick, USA)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Land of the Deaf (dir. Valery Todorosvsky, 1998, Russia)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Southie (dir. John Shea, 1998, USA)
12 Storeys - dir. Eric Khoo, 1997, Singapore
A Soldier’s Sweetheart - dir. Thomas Michael Donnelly, 1998, USA
Above Freezing - dir. Frank Todaro, 1998, USA
Actresses - dir. Ventura Pons, 1996, Spain
Adam & Eva - dir. Mans Herngren, Hannes Holm, 1997, Sweden
Un Air de Famille - dir. Cedric Klapisch, 1997, France
Airbag - dir. Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1997, Spain/Portugal/Germany
Amor Vertical - dir. Arturo Sotto, 1997, Cuba
Around the Fire - dir. John Jacobsen, 1998, USA
The Baby Dance - dir. Jane Anderson, 1998, USA
Backroads - dir. Emilio Martinez- Lazaro, 1997, Spain
Bandits - dir. Katja von Garnier, 1997, Germany
The Beyond - dir. Lucio Fulci, 1981, Italy
Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss - dir. Tommy O’Haver, 1997, USA
Black Angel - dir. Ishii Takashi, 1997, Japan
Black Mask - dir. Daniel Lee, 1997, Hong Kong
Blind Faith - dir. Ernest Dickerson, 1998, USA
Blinded - dir. Daniel Calparsoro, 1997, Spain
The Brandon Teena Story - dir. Susan Muska, Greta Olafsdottir, 1998, USA
Broken Vessels - dir. Scott Ziehl, 1998, USA
Brother - dir. Alexei Balabanov, 1997, Russia
Buffalo 66 - dir. Vincent Gallo, 1998, USA
Burn - dir. Scott Storm, 1998, USA
The Campus - dir. Sonke Wortmann, 1998, Germany
Caresses - dir. Ventura Pons, 1997, Spain
Carried Away - dir. Paul Kostick, 1998, USA
The Children of Heaven - dir. Majid Majidi, 1997, Iran
Chile, The Obstinate Memory - dir. Patricio Guzman, 1997, Canada/Chile/France
Claudine’s Return - dir. Antonio Tibaldi, 1998, USA
Cleopatra’s Second Husband - dir. Jon Reiss, 1998, USA
Cloud Capped Star - dir. Ritwik Ghatak, 1960, India
Comedia Infantil - dir. Solveig Nordlund, 1998, Mozambique/Sweden/Portugal
Conceiving Ada - dir. Lynn Hershman Leeson, 1997, USA
Cousin Bette - dir. Des McAnuff, 1998, USA
Dancemaker - dir. Matthew Diamond, 1998, USA
Dark Harbor - dir. Adam Coleman Howard, 1998, USA
Day of the Beast - dir. Alex de la Iglesia, 1996, Spain
Dead Man’s Curve - dir. Dan Rosen, 1998, USA
Dear Jesse - dir. Tim Kirkman, 1998, USA
Deja Vu - dir. Henry Jaglom, 1998, USA
Delivered - dir. Guy Ferland, 1998, USA
Denial - dir. Adam Rifkin, 1998, USA
Digging to China - dir. Timothy Hutton, 1998, USA
Dirty - dir. Bruce Sweeney, 1997, Canada
Doing Time for Patsy Cline - dir. Chris Kennedy, 1997, Australia
Dry Cleaning - dir. Anne Fontaine, 1997, France
Felice...Felice - dir. Peter Delpeut, 1998, Netherlands
Fiber Optics - dir. Francisco Athie, 1997, Mexico
The File of Anna Akhmatova - dir. Semyon Aranovich, 1989, Russia
Firelight - dir. William Nicholson, 1997, Great Britain/USA
First Love, Last Rites - dir. Jesse Peretz, 1997, USA
Floating - dir. William Roth, 1998, USA
Forgotten Light - dir. Vladimir Michalek, 1997, Czech Republic
Frank Lloyd Wright - dir. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, 1998, USA
Frat House - dir. Todd Phillips, Andrew Gurland, 1998, USA
Full Alert - dir. Ringo Lam Ling-tung, 1997, Hong Kong
Full Tilt Boogie - dir. Sarah Kelly, 1997, USA
Funny Games - dir. Michael Haneke, 1997, Austria
Gadjo Dilo - dir. Tony Gatlif, 1997, France/Romania
Genealogies of a Crime - dir. Raoul Ruiz, 1996, France
Georgica - dir. Sulev Keedus, 1998, Estonia
Girl with Hyacinths - dir. Hasse Ekman, 1950, Sweden
God Said Ha! - dir. Julia Sweeney, 1998, USA
Gods and Monsters - dir. Bill Condon, 1998, USA
The Governess - dir. Sandra Goldbacher, 1998, Great Britain
The Hanging Garden - dir. Thom Fitzgerald, 1996, Canada
Henry Fool - dir. Hal Hartley, 1997, USA
Hero - dir. Corey Yuen Kwai, 1997, Hong Kong
High Art - dir. Lisa Cholodenko, 1998, USA
Hold You Tight - dir. Stanley Kwan, 1998, Hong Kong
Homo Heights - dir. Sara Moore, 1997, USA
Honey and Ashes - dir. Nadia Fares, 1996, Tunisia/Switzerland
How the War Started on My Island - dir. Vinko Bresan, 1997, Croatia
How to Make the Cruelest Month - dir. Kip Koenig, 1998, USA
The Human Race - dir. Bobby Houston, 1998, USA
I Married a Strange Person - dir. Bill Plympton, 1997, USA
I Want to be a Vampire - dir. Ulli Lommel, 1997, USA
I Went Down - dir. Paddy Breathnach, 1997, Ireland
Inspirations - dir. Michael Apted, 1998, USA
Jeanne and the Perfect Guy - dir. Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau, 1998, France
Jour de Fete - dir. Jacques Tati, 1948, France
Jugofilm - dir. Goran Rebic, 1997, Austria
Kiki’s Delivery Service - dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1998, Japan
Killer Condom - dir. Martin Walz, 1996, Germany
Kingdom I - dir. Lars von Trier, 1995, Denmark
Kingdom II - dir. Lars von Trier, Morten Arnfred, 1997, Denmark
Kisangani Diary - dir. Hubert Sauper, 1997, France/Austria
Kitchen Party - dir. Gary Burns, 1997, Canada
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door - dir. Thomas Jahn, 1997, Germany
Land of the Deaf - dir. Valery Todorovsky, 1998, Russia
The Last Bus Home - dir. Johnny Gogan, 1997, Ireland
The Last Days of Disco - dir. Whit Stillman, 1998, USA
Late Full Moon - dir. Edward Zahariev, 1997, Bulgaria/Hungary/Canada
Lawn Dogs - dir. John Duigan, 1997, Great Britain/USA
Lea - dir. Ivan Fila, 1996, Germany
The Life of Jesus - dir. Bruno Dumont, 1997, France
Long Twilight - dir. Attila Janisch, 1997, Hungary
Lost and Found - dir. Ron Burrus, 1998, USA
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health - dir. Manuel Gomez Pereira, 1996, Spain
Love Tangles - dir. Olivier Peray, 1997, France/Spain/Switzerland
Lucky Star - dir. Ricardo Franco, 1997, Spain/France/Italy
The Man in Her Life - dir. Carlos Siguion-Reyna, 1998, Philippines
Manly Love - dir. Mariano Barroso, 1997, Spain
Marie Baie des Anges - dir. Manuel Pradal, 1997, France
Marthe - dir. Jean-Loup Hubert, 1997, France
Melting Pot - dir. Tom Musca, 1998, USA
Memories - dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura, 1997, Japan
Metroland - dir. Philip Saville, 1997, Great Britain/France
The Mirror - dir. Jafar Panahi , 1997, Iran
Modulations - dir. Iara Lee, 1998, USA
Motello - dir. Mikael Wikke, Steen Rasmussen, 1998, Denmark
Mothertime - dir. Matthew Jacobs, 1997, Great Britain
Mr. Jealousy - dir. Noah Baumbach, 1998, USA
Mr. P’s Dancing Sushi Bar - dir. Hirotaka Tashiro, 1998, USA/Vietnam
My Secret Cache - dir. Shinobu Yaguchi, 1996, Japan
Next Stop, Wonderland - dir. Brad Anderson, 1998, USA
Nights of Cabiria - dir. Federico Fellini, 1957, Italy/France
Nosferatu - dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922, Germany
The Opium War - dir. Xie Jin, 1997, China
The Opposite of Sex - dir. Don Roos, 1998, USA
Out of the Past - dir. Jeffrey Dupre, 1998, USA
The Oyster and the Wind - dir. Walter Lima Jr., 1997, Brazil
Perfect Circle - dir. Ademir Kenovic, 1997, Bosnia/France
The Pharmacist - dir. Rainer Kaufmann, 1997, Germany
Possums - dir. J. Max Burnett, 1998, USA
Post Coitum - dir. Brigitte Rouan, 1997, France
Postman Blues - dir. Sabu, 1997, Japan
Push! Push! - dir. Park Chul-Soo, 1997, South Korea
Pusher - dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 1997, Denmark
The Race to Save 100 Years - dir. Scott Benson, 1997, USA
Rashomon - dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1951, Japan
The Red Door - dir. Buddhadeb Dasgupta, 1997, India
Regular Guys - dir. Rolf Silber, 1996, Germany
Relax…It’s Just Sex - dir. P.J. Castellaneta, 1998, USA
Remembering Sex - dir. Julie Lynch, 1998, USA
Reno Finds Her Mom - dir. Lydia Dean Pilcher, 1997, USA
Resurrection Man - dir. Marc Evans, 1997, Great Britain
Road to Nhill - dir. Sue Brooks, 1997, Australia
The Saltmen of Tibet - dir. Ulrike Koch, 1997, Germany/Switzerland
See the Sea - dir. Francois Ozon, 1997, France
Sex/Life in L.A. - dir. Jochen Hick, 1998, Germany
Shooting Fish - dir. Stefan Schwartz, 1997, Great Britain
Six Ways to Sunday - dir. Adam Bernstein, 1998, USA
The Sixth Happiness - dir. Waris Hussein, 1997, Great Britain/India
Smoke Signals - dir. Chris Eyre, 1997, USA
Southie - dir. John Shea, 1998, USA
Stella Does Tricks - dir. Coky Giedroyc, 1997, Great Britain
The Sugar Factory - dir. Robert Carter, 1998, Australia
Surrender Dorothy - dir. Kevin Di Novis, 1998, USA
Thank God He Met Lizzie - dir. Cherie Nowlan, 1997, Australia
The Thief - dir. Pavel Chukhrai, 1997, Russia
Things I Left in Havana - dir. Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, 1997, Spain
This Is My Father - dir. Paul Quinn, 1998, Canada/Ireland
Tic Tac - dir. Daniel Alfredson, 1997, Sweden
Tokyo Lullaby - dir. Jun Ichikawa, 1997, Japan
Tomorrow Night - dir. Louis C.K., 1998, USA
Tonka - dir. Jean-Hugues Anglade, 1997, France/Italy
Tranceformer - dir. Stig Bjorkman, Fredrik Von Krusenstjerna, 1997, Denmark
Uncut - dir. John Greyson, 1997, Canada
Under Heaven - dir. Meg Richman, 1998, USA
Under the Skin - dir. Carine Adler, 1997, Great Britain
The Unknown Cyclist - dir. Bernard Salzman, 1998, USA
Voyage to the Beginning of the World - dir. Manoel de Oliveira, 1997, Portugal/France
Waco: The Rules of Engagement - dir. William Gazecki, 1997, USA
War Zone - dir. Maggie Hadleigh-West, 1998, USA/Germany
The Well - dir. Samantha Lang, 1997, Australia
Whatever - dir. Susan Skoog, 1998, USA
When Trumpets Fade - dir. John Irvin, 1998, USA
White Witch Doctor - dir. Henry Hathaway, 1953, USA
Who the Hell is Juliette? - dir. Carlos Marcovich, 1997, Mexico/Cuba
Wicked - dir. Michael Steinberg, 1998, USA
Wilde - dir. Brian Gilbert, 1997, Great Britain
Wintersleepers - dir. Tom Tykwer, 1997, Germany
Xiu Xiu - The Sent Down Girl - dir. Joan Chen, 1998, USA
Young & Dangerous 5 - dir. Andrew Lau, Wai Keung, 1997, Hong Kong
Yours and Mine - dir. Wang Shaudi, 1997, Taiwan
The 20th Annual Poster Exhibition and Auction
American Independent Awards
Archival Presentations - included Cloud Capped Star, Girl with Hyacinths, Jour de Fete, Nights of Cabiria, Rashomon, White Witch Doctor
Bedtime Stories: The Midnight Series - included The Beyond, Black Angel, Black Mask, Full Tilt Boogie, I Want to Be a Vampire, Killer Condom, Tomorrow Night, Young & Dangerous 5
Documentaries: Truth with an Attitude - included 16 feature films and 5 short films
Films 4 Families - included Digging to China, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Possums, Short Films 4 Families
Filmmakers Forum: The Sound View - included THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES: Getting it right in the explosive journey from book to screen., RAINING STONES: A Seattle music symposium., AS GOOD AS IT GETS: A big finish to a screenwriting derby.
Filmmakers Forum: The World View - included MEDIUM COOL: Crossing genres between film and television., BEING THERE: The performing experience., THE PRODUCERS: Nurturing directors., TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN: A fundraising seminar., MY LEFT FOOT: A close, colloquial look at choreography for film.
Filmmakers Forum: The Convergence - included BLADE RUNNER: A master cutting glass with film editor Craig McKay., HE GOT GAME: Top Hollywood talent agents call the plays., THE MIGHTY QUINN: The combined energies of three brothers and 13 years., FLY FILMMAKING: A practical exercise in flash film production
Golden Space Needle Awards
New Directors Showcase - included 12 feature films
Screenwriters Salon
Secret Festival
Shorts Awards
Shorts Programs - included 9 1/2 Peeks, Idiot’s Delight, Pulp Friction, The Wrongs & Rites of Passage
Special Archival Presentation Nosferatu
Special Mid-Festival Gala Smoke Signals
Special Marathon Presentation - included Kingdom I, Kingdom II