Seattle Film Festival

The Seattle Film Festival, an IMDb.com qualifying awards event, is about the independent filmmaker. We are small enough so that your film does not get lost in our submissions or schedule. But we are large enough to offer a historic screening venue to display and showcase your films and get media coverage. The opening night of our festival starts with a boat cruise on Lake Union, Seattle and concludes with an awards show gala at a local Seattle venue (see the official GETTY Images photos of the event and interviews) here:
https://www.theseattlefilmfestival.com/gettyimagesandinterviews2022festival

Seattle Film Festival attendees, official selection nominees and winners have included: Gus Van Sant, Susan Sarandon, Mark Polish, Sean Astin, Gary Busey, Paulina Porizkova, Xander Berkeley, Jennifer Beals, Ice-T, Krista Allen, Kevin Bacon, Michael Madsen, Bonnie McKee, Jeffrey Combs, Kristen Johnston, Yorick van Wageningen, Maxim Roy, Jeremy Sisto, Kellen Lutz, Amy Gordon, Kenny Hotz, Celine Abrahams, Amber Rose Revah, Kevin Guthrie, Goran Bogdan, Steve Spiers, Margaret Cho, Fabien Caleyere, Michael Gross, Mark Webber, Fedja van Huêt, John Capodice, Mick Fleetwood, Rocky Burnett, Christopher Backus, Michael Ironside, Patrick J. Adams, David Sullivan, Bill Heck and many more.

The festival was founded in 2013 with a focus on short films and documentary shorts. We grew over the next few years by word of mouth running annually through 2016.
It was to our surprise in 2019, when a collective of local filmmakers who had been involved in our festival in previous years inspired us to relaunch the festival and this time with the addition of narrative feature films, documentary features, web series, music videos and various other categories.
While working with local filmmakers, we found they preferred a larger choice of categories to submit to at the Seattle Film Festival to fit the growing number of submissions and a better chance to receive a meaningful award. We have expanded the Seattle Film Festival to not only present your films in a historic Seattle movie theater in front of a live audience and jury but also, with the new addition of a concurrently running online festival, are able to give a large number of films International exposure.

The Seattle Film Festival also offers Q & A sessions and film industry networking opportunities.

This year's judges include:
Bill Kucera - Creative Director at Method Fest Film Festival

Bobby LePire - Critic at Film Threat Magazine

John Capodice - Actor, portrayed Aguado in Ace Ventura, Bob in Speed, Jerry in The Doors, Sally Molars in Honeymoon in Vegas.

Francesca De Luca- Actress in theater and award winning films including the 2022 Seattle Film Festival Best Ensemble Award for Storage.

Indie film critics, reviewers and industry insiders have attended our festival and we are part of a solid network of other film festivals so submitting your movies to us may open up many more opportunities for you.