Filmmaker Q&A: Sweetheart Deal

Sweetheart Deal

September 27 - 28, 2024

In Sweetheart Deal, four women encounter friendship and betrayal while working Seattle’s infamous Aurora Avenue.

September 27, 7:00pm screening - Post-film Q&A with Director Elisa Levine, Editor Brittany Kaplan and Producer Peggy Case scheduled will participate in a Q&A moderated by Charles Tonderai Mudede (critic at The Stranger; American Writer and Filmmaker)

September 28, 1:45pm screening - Director Elisa Levine, Editor Brittany Kaplan and Producer Peggy Case scheduled will participate in a Q&A moderated by Kathy Fennessy.

Both post-film Q&As are included with tickets to the screening.

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September 27 at 7:00pm and September 28 at 1:45pm
SIFF Film Center

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ABOUT THE MODERATORS

Charles Tonderai Mudede

Charles Tonderai Mudede is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, filmmaker, lecturer, and writer. He is Senior Staff writer for The Stranger, a lecturer at Cornish College of the Arts, and has collaborated with the director Robinson Devor on three films, two of which Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one of which, Zoo, screened at Cannes, and the most recent of which, Suburban Fury, premiered at New York Film Festival. (Police Beat is now part of MOMA’s permanent collection.) Mudede, who directed the feature film Thin Skin (2023), has also written for the New York Times, Cinema Scope, e-Flux, LA Weekly, C Theory, and Tank Magazine.

Kathy Fennessy

Kathy Fennessy has worked at Cascade PBS, primarily in the Philanthropy department, since 2008. Over the years, she has written about film and music for The Anchorage Times, Resonance, The Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, and Minneapolis's City Pages. She currently contributes to Rock and Roll Globe, Video Librarian, and Seattle Film Blog. She is a Tomatometer-approved critic, a Northwest Film Forum board member, and president of Seattle Film Critics Society.