Everything about The Seattle International Film Festival totally explained
The
Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), held annually in
Seattle,
Washington, is purported to be the largest
film festival in the
United States, and among the top film festivals in the world. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees. SIFF runs for more than three weeks (24 days) and features a diverse assortment of predominantly
independent and
foreign films and, in recent years, a strong contingent of
documentaries.
The 2006 festival ran
May 25–
June 18, 2006. SIFF 2006 included 300+ films and was the first SIFF to include a venue in neighboring
Bellevue, Washington since an ill-fated early attempt.
The 2007 festival ran from
May 24 to
June 17.
The festival began in 1976 at a then-independent cinema, the Moore Egyptian Theater (now back to its earlier name, the Moore Theater, and functioning as a concert venue). When founders
Dan Ireland and Darryl Macdonald of the Moore Egyptian lost their lease, they founded the Egyptian theater in a former
Masonic Temple on Seattle's
Capitol Hill, which remains the prime festival venue to this day, although the festival now typically uses about half a dozen cinemas, the exact roster varying from year to year.
During the 1980s, SIFF audiences developed a reputation for appreciating films that didn't fit standard industry niches, such as
Richard Rush's multi-layered
The Stunt Man (1980). SIFF was instrumental in the entry of
Dutch films into the United States market, including the first major American success for director
Paul Verhoeven.
The festival includes a sidebar that's probably unique among major film festivals: a four-film "Secret Festival". Those who attend the Secret Festival don't know in advance what that'll see, and they must sign an oath that they won't reveal afterwards what they've seen.
In general, SIFF has a reputation as an "audience festival" rather than an "industry festival". The festival often partially overlaps the
Cannes Film Festival, which can reduce attendance by industry bigwigs; in 2007 there are two days of overlap,
May 24 and 25.
November 28,
2006, SIFF and Seattle mayor
Greg Nickels announced that SIFF will soon have a home and a year-round screening facility in what has been the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall of McCaw Hall, the same building at
Seattle Center that houses the
Seattle Opera. The move-in date is scheduled for January, with screenings beginning shortly thereafter. The city will contribute $150,000 to the $350,000 project. This auditorium will also be the "flagship venue" for future SIFF festivals.
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Outsourced (dir.
John Jeffcoat, USA)
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Pierre (dir.
Dan Brown, USA)
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For the Bible Tells Me So (dir.
Daniel Karslake, USA)
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SIFF Awards for Best Director, Actress and Actor
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