Seattle Jewish Film Festival: SJFF is the largest Jewish event in the Pacific Northwest, one of the largest and longest-running film festivals of its kind in the US, and a vital cornerstone of the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s Arts+Ideas Season of programs. Central to the SJCC’s mission to offer experiences that amplify profound Jewish connections, SJFF brings people together to showcase the vibrancy and diversity of global Jewish and Israeli life through cinema. Currently, we are hybrid screening films both in person on weekends and hybrid midweek for 2 weeks. Learn more at: www.seattlejff.org
SJFF attendees cast their ballots for the festival's Audience Choice Awards for Best Narrative Feature Film, Best Documentary Feature Film and Best Short Documentary and Narrative Short Films. Every other year, SJFF names a REEL Difference and REAL Difference Award to distinguished filmmakers, producers, artists and agents of arts philanthropy and change. Past recipients include: Academy Award nominated German director Michael Verhoeven, Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis and documentary filmmakers Aviva Kempner and Dani Menkin, actors Elliot Gould and Sasson Gabay, festival co-founder Deborah Rosen, Tiffany Shlain, and producer Michael Benaroya of Benaroya Pictures.