Gospel singer, Merry Clayton, graces the stage of the Egyptian at the Centerpiece Film and Gala before a screening of her film, Twenty Feet from Stardom
Relive the 39th 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 2013 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 16–June 9, 2013
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Cinerama, Egyptian Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, KCTS Digital Media Lab, Kirkland Performing Arts Center, McCaw Hall, Pacific Place Cinemas, Renton Ikea Performing Arts Center, SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Film Center, Triple Door, Vera Project
Opening Night: Much Ado About Nothing at McCaw Hall
Closing Night: The Bling Ring at Cinerama
Tribute: Kyle MacLachlan, Peter Greenaway
Photos
Gospel singer, Merry Clayton, graces the stage of the Egyptian at the Centerpiece Film and Gala before a screening of her film, Twenty Feet from Stardom
SIFF staff behind-the-scenes at the Centerpiece Film & Gala, likely sending all those emails that make the magic happen
Opening Night at McCaw Hall, featuring actor, Clark Gregg, director, Joss Whedon, actor, Amy Acker, SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and actor, Nathan Fillion from the red carpet, before a screening of their film, Much Ado About Nothing
SIFF volunteer, Kelly Lyles, arriving at Opening Night of the 39th Seattle International Film Festival in style
Best Film
Fanie Fourie's Lobola (dir. Henk Pretorius, South Africa)
Best Director
Nabil Ayouch (Horses of God, Morocco)
Best Actress
Samantha Morton (Decoding Annie Parker)
Best Actor
James Cromwell (Still Mine)
Best Short
Spooners (dir. Bryan Horch, USA)
Best Documentary
20 Feet From Stardom (dir. Morgan Neville, USA)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Harmony Lessons (dir. Emir Baigazin, Kazakhstan)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
C.O.G. (dir. Kyle Patrick Alvarez, USA)
Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Our Nixon (dir. Penny Lane, 2013)
100 Bloody Acres - dir. Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes, 2012, Australia
2+2 - dir. Diego Kaplan, 2013, Argentina
36 - dir. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit , 2012, Thailand
7 Boxes - dir. Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori, 2012, Paraguay
9 Full Moons - dir. Tomer Almagor, 2013, USA
Aayna Ka Bayna - dir. Samit Kakkad, 2012, India
About 111 Girls - dir. Nahid Ghobadi, Bijan Zmanpira, 2012, Iraq
The Act of Killing - dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, Anonymous, 2012, Denmark/Norway/United Kingdom
The African Cypher - dir. Bryan Little, 2012, South Africa
After Lucia - dir. Michel Franco, 2012, Mexico
Afternoon Delight - dir. Jill Soloway, 2013, USA
After the Battle - dir. Yousry Nasrallah, 2012, France/Egypt
After Tiller - dir. Martha Shane, Lana Wilson, 2013, USA
After Winter, Spring - dir. Judith Lit, 2012, France/USA
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints - dir. David Lowery, 2013, USA
Ali - dir. Paco R. Baños, 2012, Spain
Ali Blue Eyes - dir. Claudio Giovannesi, 2012, Italy
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth - dir. Pratibha Parmar, 2013, USA
Alive and Well - dir. Josh Taft, 2013, USA/United Kingdom/Kenya/Canada
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane - dir. Jonathan Levine, 2006, USA
The Almost Man - dir. Martin Lund, 2012, Norway
Anita - dir. Freida Mock, 2013, USA
Another Woman’s Face - dir. Pappi Corsicato, 2012, Italy
The Artist and the Pervert - dir. Fernando Trueba, 2012, Spain
At Middleton - dir. Adam Rodgers, 2013, USA
¡Atraco! - dir. Eduard Cortés, 2012, Spain, Argentina
The Attack - dir. Ziad Doueiri , 2012, Lebanon/France/Qatar/Egypt/Belgium
Augustine - dir. Alice Winocour, 2012, France
A Band Called Death - dir. Jeff Howlett, Mark Covino, 2012, USA
Barzan - dir. Alex Stonehill, Bradley Hutchinson, 2013, USA
Before Snowfall - dir. Hisham Zaman, 2012, Norway/Germany
Belleville Baby - dir. Mia Engberg, 2013, Sweden
Between Valleys - dir. Philippe Barcinski, 2012, Brazil/Germany/Uruguay
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton - dir. Eric Slade, Stephen Silha, 2013, USA
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me - dir. Drew DeNicola, 2012, USA
Bitch Hug - dir. Andreas Öhman, 2012, Sweden
Blackbird - dir. Jason Buxton, 2012, Canada
Blackfish - dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite, 2013, USA/Canada/Spain
The Bling Ring - dir. Sofia Coppola, 2013, USA
Breach in the Silence - dir. Andrés Rodríguez, Luis Rodríguez, 2012, Venezuela
Breathing Earth - dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer, 2012, Germany/Scotland
The Broken Circle Breakdown - dir. Felix van Groeningen, 2013, Netherlands/Belgium
Bwakaw - dir. Jun Robles Lana, 2012, Philippines
Bypass - dir. Patxo Telleria, Aitor Mazo, 2012, Spain
Byzantium - dir. Neil Jordan, 2012, United Kingdom/Ireland
Camion - dir. Rafaël Ouellet, 2012, Canada (Québec)
Capturing Dad - dir. Ryota Nakano, 2012,Japan
Celestial Wives of Meadow Mari - dir. Aleksey Fedorchenko, 2012, Russia
Celluloid Man - dir. Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, 2012, India
Cheap Thrills - dir. E.L. Katz, 2013, USA
Children of Sarajevo - dir. Aida Begic, 2012, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany/France/Turkey
Circles - dir. Srdan Golubovic, 2013, Serbia/Germany/France/Croatia/Slovenia
The Cleaner - dir. Adrian Saba, 2012, Peru
Closed Curtain - dir. Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi, 2013, Iran
Clutter - dir. Diane Crespo, 2013, USA
Cockneys vs. Zombies - dir. Matthias Hoene, 2012, United Kingdom
C.O.G. - dir. Kyle Patrick Alvarez, 2013, USA
Cold War - dir. Longman Leung, Sunny Luk, 2012, Hong Kong
Coming Forth by Day - dir. Hala Lotfy, 2012, Egypt/United Arab Emirates
Computer Chess - dir. Andrew Bujalski, 2013, USA
Comrade Kim Goes Flying - dir. Anja Daelemans, Nicholas Bonner, Gwang Hun Kim, 2012, Belgium/United Kingdom/North Korea
Comrade President - dir. Mosco Kamwendo, 2012, Zimbabwe
Concussion - dir. Stacie Passon, 2013, USA
The Crash Reel - dir. Lucy Walker, 2013, USA
Crystal Fairy - dir. Sebastián Silva, 2013, Chile
Cutie and the Boxer - dir. Zachary Heinzerling, 2013, USA
Dead Meat Walking - A Zombie Walk Documentary - dir. Omar J. Pineda, 2013, USA
Decoding Annie Parker - dir. Steven Bernstein, 2013, USA
The Deep - dir. Baltasar Kormákur, 2012, Iceland/Norway
Die Welt - dir. Alex Pitstra, 2012, Netherlands/Tunisia/Qatar
Dirty Wars - dir. Richard Rowley, 2013, USA
Doch (The Daughter) - dir. Alexander Kasatkin, Natalia Nazarova , 2012, Russia
Dog Flesh - dir. Fernando Guzzoni, 2012, Chile/France/Germany
Drinking Buddies - dir. Joe Swanberg, 2013, USA
Drug War - dir. Johnnie To, 2012, Hong Kong
Dune - dir. David Lynch, 1984, USA
The East - dir. Zal Batmanglij, 2013, USA
Éden - dir. Bruno Safadi, 2012, Brazil
Epic - dir. Chris Wedge, 2013, USA
Ernest & Celestine - dir. Benjamin Renner, Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, 2012, France/Luxembourg/Belgium
Evergreen: The Road to Legalization in Washington - dir. Riley Morton, 2013, USA
Every Blessed Day - dir. Paolo Virzi, 2012, Italy
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola - dir. Henk Pretorius, 2013, South Africa
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story - dir. Brad Bernstein , 2012, USA
Fatal - dir. Lee Don-ku, 2012, South Korea
Fateful Findings - dir. Neil Breen, 2013, USA
The Fifth Season - dir. Peter Brosens, Jessica Hope Woodworth, 2012, Belgium/Netherlands/France
Filmistaan - dir. Nitin Kakkar, 2012, India
The Final Member - dir. Jonah Bekhor, Zach Math, 2012, Canada, Iceland/Italy/USA
Finding Hillywood - dir. Leah Warshawski, Chris Towey, 2013, USA/Rwanda
Five Dances - dir. Alan Brown, 2013, USA
Flicker - dir. Patrik Eklund, 2012, Sweden
Flight of the Storks - dir. Jan Kounen, 2012, France/Germany/South Africa
Forbidden Voices - dir. Barbara Miller, 2012, Switzerland
The Forgotten Kingdom - dir. Andrew Mudge, 2013, USA/South Africa
Frances Ha - dir. Noah Baumbach, 2012, USA
Free Fall - dir. Stephan Lacant, 2013, Germany
The Fruit Hunters - dir. Yung Chang , 2012, Canada
F**k Up - dir. Øystein Karlsen, 2012, Norway
Full Circle (2012) - dir. Zhang Yang, 2012, China
Furever - dir. Amy Finkel, 2013, USA
Garibaldi’s Lovers - dir. Silvio Soldini, 2012 , Italy/Switzerland/France
G.B.F. - dir. Darren Stein, 2013, USA
Geography Club - dir. Gary Entin, 2013, USA
The Girl With Nine Wigs - dir. Marc Rothemund, 2013, Germany/Belgium
Go Grandriders - dir. Tien-hau Hua, 2012, Taiwan
Goltzius and the Pelican Company - dir. Peter Greenaway, 2012, United Kingdom/Netherlands/France/Croatia
The Great Passage - dir. Yûya Ishii, 2013, Japan
The Guillotines - dir. Andrew Lau, 2012, Hong Kong
A Gun in Each Hand - dir. Cesc Gay, 2012, Spain
Halima’s Path - dir. Arsen Anton Ostojic, 2012, Croatia
Harana - dir. Benito Bautista, 2012, Philippines
Harmony Lessons - dir. Emir Baigazin, 2013, Kazakhstan/Germany/France
Haute Cuisine - dir. Christian Vincent, 2012, France
Her Aim Is True - dir. Karen Whitehead, 2013, USA
Here Comes the Devil - dir. Adrián García Bogliano, 2012, Mexico/USA
A Hijacking - dir. Tobias Lindholm, 2012, Denmark/Kenya
The Horde - dir. Andrei Proshkin, 2012, Russia
Horses of God - dir. Nabil Ayouch, 2012, Morocco/France/Belgium
House With a Turret - dir. Eva Neymann, 2012, Ukraine
The Human Scale - dir. Andreas M. Dalsgaard, 2012, Denmark
The Hunt - dir. Thomas Vinterberg, 2012, Denmark
I Declare War - dir. Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson, 2012, USA
I Kori (The Daughter) - dir. Thanos Anastopoulos, 2012, Greece/Italy
Imagine - dir. Andrzej Jakimowski, 2012, Poland/France/Portugal
Improvement Club - dir. Dayna Hanson, 2013, USA
In a World... - dir. Lake Bell, 2013, USA
Inch’Allah - dir. Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, 2012, Canada (Québec)
Inequality for All - dir. Jacob Kornbluth, 2013, USA
Interior. Leather Bar. - dir. Travis Mathews, James Franco , 2013, USA
In the Fog - dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2012, Germany/Russia/Belarus/Netherlands/Latvia
In the Name Of - dir. Małgośka Szumowska, 2013, Poland
In the Shadow - dir. David Ondříček, 2012, Czech Republic/Poland/Slovakia
Invader - dir. Daniel Calparsoro, 2012, Spain
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - dir. Elio Petri, 1970, Italy
It’s All So Quiet - dir. Nanouk Leopold, 2013, Netherlands/Germany
I Used to Be Darker - dir. Matthew Porterfield, 2013, USA
Jin - dir. Reha Erdem, 2012, Turkey
Jump - dir. Kieron J. Walsh, 2012, Ireland/United Kingdom
Just Like a Woman - dir. Rachid Bouchareb, 2012, United Kingdom/USA /France
Just the Wind - dir. Bence Fliegauf, 2012, Hungary /Germany/France
Kalpana - dir. Uday Shankar, 1948, India
The Kampala Story - dir. Donald Mugisha, Kasper Bisgaard, 2012, Uganda
Key of Life - dir. Kenji Uchida, 2012, Japan
The Kings of Summer - dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts, 2013, USA
Kink - dir. Christina Voros, 2013, USA
A Lady in Paris - dir. Ilmar Raag, 2012, Estonia/Belgium/France
The Land of Eb - dir. Andrew Williamson, 2012, Marshall Islands/USA
The Land of Hope - dir. Sion Sono, 2012, Japan
La Playa D.C. - dir. Juan Andrés Arango, 2012, Colombia/Brazil/France
Last Flight to Abuja - dir. Obi Emelonye, 2012, Nigeria/United Kingdom
Last I Heard - dir. David Rodriguez, 2013, USA
Lasting - dir. Jacek Borcuch, 2013, Poland/Spain
The Last Ocean - dir. Peter Young, 2012, New Zealand
The Last Sentence - dir. Jan Troell, 2012, Sweden
The Last Shepherd - dir. Marco Bonfanti, 2012, Italy
Laurence Anyways - dir. Xavier Dolan, 2012, Canada (Québec)/France
Lil Bub & Friendz - dir. Andy Capper, Juliette Eisner, 2013, USA
Little Lion - dir. Samuel Collardey, 2012, France
The Little Tin Man - dir. Matthew Perkins, 2013, USA
Love Is in the Air - dir. Alexandre Castagnetti, 2013, France
Low Profile - dir. Cécilia Rouaud, 2012, France
Ludwig II - dir. Peter Sehr, Marie Noëlle, 2012, Germany/Austria
A Man Vanishes - dir. Shôhei Imamura, 1967, Japan
Marie Krøyer - dir. Bille August, 2012, Denmark
Mercy - dir. Matthias Glasner, 2012, Germany, Norway
Middleton - dir. Adam Rogers, 2013, USA
Mistaken for Strangers - dir. Tom Berninger, 2013, USA
The Moment - dir. Jane Weinstock, 2013, USA
Monsters University - dir. Dan Scanlon, 2013, USA
Moon Man - dir. Stephan Schesch, 2012, Germany/France/United Kingdom
More Than Honey - dir. Markus Imhoof, 2012, Germany/Austria/Switzerland
Mother of George - dir. Andrew Dosunmu, 2013, USA
Much Ado About Nothing - dir. Joss Whedon, 2012, USA
Muscle Shoals - dir. Greg Camalier, 2013, USA
Mussels in Love - dir. W.J.A. Kluijfhout, 2012, Netherlands
Mutual Friends - dir. Matthew Watts, 2013, USA
My Dog Killer - dir. Mira Fornay, 2013, Slovakia/Czech Republic
Naked Harbour - dir. Aku Louhimies, 2012, Finland/Austria/Germany
Nightfall - dir. Roy Chow, 2012, Hong Kong
Nishan (Medal of Honor) - dir. Yidnekachew Shumete Desalegn, 2013, Ethiopia
Northwest - dir. Michael Noer, 2013, Denmark
Orange Honey - dir. Imanol Uribe, 2012, Spain/Portugal
The Otherside - dir. Daniel Torok, 2013, USA
Our Children - dir. Joachim Lafosse, 2012, Belgium/Luxembourg/France/Switzerland
Our Nixon - dir. Penny Lane,2013,USA
Out in the Dark - dir. Michael Mayer, 2012, Israel/USA
Out of Print - dir. Vivienne Roumani, 2012, USA
Papadopoulos & Sons - dir. Marcus Markou, 2012, United Kingdom
Paradise: Faith - dir. Ulrich Seidl, 2012, Austria/Germany/France
Paradise: Hope - dir. Ulrich Seidl, 2013, Austria/Germany/France
Paradise: Love - dir. Ulrich Seidl, 2012, Austria/Germany/France
The Pardon - dir. Joel Karekezi, 2013, Rwanda
Peaches Does Herself - dir. Peaches, 2012, Germany
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology - dir. Sophie Fiennes, 2012, United Kingdom, Ireland
Phase IV - dir. Saul Bass,1974, USA/United Kingdom
Pieta - dir. Kim Ki-duk, 2012, South Korea
Pit Stop - dir. Yen Tan, 2013, USA
The Plague - dir. Neus Ballús, 2013, Spain
Populaire - dir. Régis Roinsard, 2012, France
Port of Shadows - dir. Marcel Carné, 1938, France
Prince Avalanche - dir. David Gordon Green, 2013, USA
The Punk Singer - dir. Sini Anderson, 2013, USA
Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer - dir. Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin, 2013, Russia/ United Kingdom
Putzel - dir. Jason Chaet, 2012, USA
Redemption Street - dir. Miroslav Terzić, 2012, Serbia
Red Obsession - dir. Warwick Ross, David Roach, 2012, Australia/China/France/United Kingdom
Remote Area Medical - dir. Jeff Reichert, Farihah Zaman, 2013, USA
The Repentant - dir. Merzak Allouache, 2012, Algeria/France
A Respectable Family - dir. Massoud Bakhshi, 2012, Iran/France
Richard III - dir. Laurence Olivier, 1955, United Kingdom
Ripples of Desire - dir. Zero Chou, 2012, Taiwan
A River Changes Course - dir. Kalyanee Mam, 2013, Cambodia/USA
The Rocket - dir. Kim Mordaunt, 2013, Australia/Laos/Thailand
Sadourni’s Butterflies - dir. Dario Nardi, 2012, Argentina
Safety Last! - dir. Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1923, USA
Salma - dir. Kim Longinotto, 2013, United Kingdom/India
Sand Fishers - dir. Samouté Andrey Diarra , 2012, Mali/France
Scrapper - dir. Brady Hall, 2013, USA
Shadowed - dir. Joey Johnson, 2012, USA
A Shape of Error - dir. Abigail Child, 2012, USA
Short Stories - dir. Mikhail Segal, 2012, Russia
Short Term 12 - dir. Destin Daniel Cretton, 2013, USA
Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You - A Concert for Kate McGarrigle - dir. Lian Lunson, 2012, USA
SOMM - dir. Jason Wise, 2012, USA
A Song Still Inside - dir. Gregory Collins,2013,USA
Spark: A Burning Man Story - dir. Jessie Deeter, Steve Brown, 2013, USA
The Spectacular Now - dir. James Ponsoldt, 2013, USA
Spud 2: The Madness Continues - dir. Donovan Marsh, 2013, South Africa
Still Mine - dir. Michael McGowan, 2012, Canada
Stories We Tell - dir. Sarah Polley, 2012, Canada
Storm Surfers 3D - dir. Justin McMillan, Chris Nelius, 2012, Australia
Stuck in Love - dir. Josh Boone, 2012, USA
The Summit - dir. Nick Ryan, 2012, Ireland/United Kingdom
Tai Chi Hero - dir. Stephen Fung, 2012, China
A Teacher - dir. Hannah Fidell, 2013, USA
Teddy Bears - dir. Thomas Beatty, Rebecca Fishman, 2013, USA
Television - dir. Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, 2012, Bangladesh/Germany
Terms and Conditions May Apply - dir. Cullen Hoback, 2013, USA/United Kingdom/Austria
Test - dir. Chris Mason Johnson,2013, USA
Thérèse - dir. Claude Miller, 2012, France
These Birds Walk - dir. Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq, 2012, Pakistan/USA
This Is Martin Bonner - dir. Chad Hartigan, 2013, USA
Tito on Ice - dir. Max Andersson, Helena Ahonen, 2012, Germany/Sweden
Together - dir. Hsu Chao-Jen , 2012, Taiwan
Touchy Feely - dir. Lynn Shelton, 2013, USA
Town Hall - dir. Jamila Wignot, Sierra Pettengill, 2013, USA
The Trials of Muhammad Ali - dir. Bill Siegel, 2013, USA
Twenty Feet from Stardom - dir. Morgan Neville, 2013, USA
Twin Peaks Pilot - dir. David Lynch,1990,USA
Two Lives - dir. Georg Maas, 2012, Germany/Norway
Two Mothers - dir. Anne Fontaine, 2013, Australia/France
Two Weddings and a Funeral - dir. Kimjho Gwan-soo, 2012, South Korea
Una Noche - dir. Lucy Mulloy, 2012, Cuba/United Kingdom/USA
Unfinished Song - dir. Paul Andrew Williams, 2012, United Kingdom
Unhung Hero - dir. Brian Spitz, 2013, USA
Valentine Road - dir. Marta Cunningham, 2013, USA
V/H/S/2 - dir. Gareth Evans, Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Eduardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingard, 2012, USA/Indonesia
The Wall - dir. Julian Roman Pölsler, 2012,Austria/Germany
Watchtower - dir. Pelin Esmer, 2012, Turkey/Germany/France
The Way, Way Back - dir. Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, 2013, USA
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks - dir. Alex Gibney, 2013, USA
What Maisie Knew - dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 2012, USA
When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep - dir. Hou Chi-Jan, 2012, Taiwan
When I Saw You - dir. Annemarie Jacir, 2012, Palestine/Jordan/United Arab/Emirates
The Wind - dir. Victor Sjöström, 1928, USA
Wish You Were Here - dir. Kieran Darcy-Smith, 2012, Australia
Wolf Children - dir. Mamoru Hosoda, 2012, Japan
A World Not Ours - dir. Mahdi Fleifel 2012, Lebanon/United Kingdom/Denmark
Worm - dir. Andrew Bowser,2013,USA
Yellow - dir. Nick Cassavetes, 2012, USA
Yesterday Never Ends - dir. Isabel Coixet, 2013, Spain
Youth - dir. Justine Malle, 2012, France
You Will Be My Son - dir. Gilles Legrand, 2012, France
Zaytoun - dir. Eran Riklis, 2012, United Kingdom/Israel/France
3-Minute Masterpieces
African Pictures - included 18 feature films
African Pictures Fim and Party: Fanie Fourie’s Lobola at Pacific Place Cinemas
Alternate Cinema - included 4 feature films and one shorts package
Ambiente: New Spanish Cinema - included 17 feature films and one shorts package
An Afternoon with Peter Greenaway: Goltzius and the Pelican Company
An Evening with Kyle MacLachlan: Twin Peaks Pilot
Archival Films - included 8 feature films
Asian Crossroads - included 33 feature films
Celebrating Native American Cinema and the 15th Anniversary of Smoke Signals
Centerpiece Gala: Twenty Feet from Stardom at Egyptian Theatre
Digital Media Lab - included 6 filmmaking workshops
Documentary Competition - included 12 feature films
Face the Music - included 12 feature films and 2 special events
Face the Music: A Tribute to the Music of Muscle Shoals with Patterson and David Hood
Face the Music: The Maldives and The Wind
Festival Forums - included Panel: Transition from Stage to Screen, New Queer Cinema with B. Ruby Rich, Inside Stunts: Meet the Men and Women that Pack the Punch into our Movies, Get Animated: Animation Workshop for Kids (ages 8-14), Short Filmmakers Happy Hour & Panel: Making the Most of Any Festival, Rule the World of Independent Filmmaking–From Indie Distribution to Smartphone Productions, Sheroes in Media: From Guerrilla Girls to Women in Film, The Alchemy of Film Scoring, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: A Professional Development Workshop for Teachers, SIFF Catalyst Panels, Behind the Curtain of Documentary Filmmaking, Resources for the Modern Filmmaker, First Draft, Getting the Most out of the Media, Acting for the Camera with Story Town Studios, What’s Your Style: High School Filmmakers Scene Workshop, The Explosion of African Cinema, State of the Industry with Amy Lillard
Films4Families - included 6 feature films, one shorts package, and one filmmaking workshop
Fly Filmmaking Challenge
FutureWave - included 8 feature films, one shorts package, and one filmmaking workshop
Gay-La: G.B.F. at Egyptian Theatre
Golden Space Needle Award
Kirkland Opening Night: Papadopoulos & Sons at Kirkland Performance Center
Midnight Adrenaline - included 8 feature films
New American Cinema Competition - included 12 feature films
New Directors Competition - included 12 feature films
Northwest Connections - included 14 feature films and two shorts packages
Renton Opening Night: Touchy Feely at Renton Ikea Performing Arts Center
SIFF Catalyst - included 6 feature films
Saturday Film and Party: Populaire at Pacific Place Cinemas, The Way, Way Back at SIFF Cinema Uptown, Drinking Buddies at Egyptian Theatre
Secret Festival
Short Films - included 17 shorts packages
Special Presentations: Decoding Annie Parker, Inequality For All, SOMM
SuperFly and Native Shorts Showcase