Hunt’s Trading Post Documentary Short Film Premiere: A Navajo-Run Third Space...
Operated by a Navajo Nation citizen, Hunt’s Trading Post serves a Native community in a majority-white town. REDEFINE’s documentary short film follows the film’s fantastic, wonderful, amazing,...
View ArticleSXSW 2026: Festival Recap
From March 12 to 18, 300,000 domestic and international visitors poured into Downtown and East Austin again to mix and mingle, and, of course, eat Texas BBQ. It was the 40th year of SXSW and disruption...
View ArticleJosef Gatti Documentary Interview: “The World Beneath the World” in Phenomena
Josef Gatti, a Melbourne-based filmmaker and pioneering cinematographer, spent nearly a decade building the “trippy science concept album” of Phenomena, his feature documentary debut. Phenomena is...
View ArticleWregas Bhanuteja Director Interview: An Internal Creative Journey to Levitating
At Sundance 2026, Indonesian director Wregas Bhanuteja premiered Levitating (Para Perasuk), a highly imaginative film about a fictional trance party community in Indonesia. The Indonesian title, Para...
View ArticleIsa Willinger Interview: No Mercy Documentary Questions “Harshness” in Femme...
“The truth is, women make the harsher films,” Kira Muratova once told a young Isa Willinger. Such an observation might not be surprising coming from Muratova, the legendary Ukrainian filmmaker known...
View Article#skoden Documentary Film Review: The Man Behind the NDN Country Meme
Beginning with a light-hearted tone that introduces the Internet meme origins of the word “skoden,” the documentary #skoden then radiates outwards to encompass a larger world of mental health,...
View ArticleTo a Land Unknown & Khartoum Film Reviews: The Plight of Palestinian &...
Danish-Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel’s narrative film, To a Land Unknown, and the Sudanese documentary film Khartoum, which is directed by in multiple segments by multiple directors, both center...
View ArticleSeattle International Film Festival 2025: Feature Film Selections
As the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) moves into its 51st year, it comes with a shortened screening schedule but continues to offer many notable short and feature films from all over the...
View ArticleKhu.éex’ Music Video Interview: “We Pray” for a Better Future
In Indigenous rock band Khu.éex”s latest single, “We Pray,” listeners may just find a remedy for hope in a time of great pain and need worldwide. With band members based in both Washington State and...
View ArticleMongrels Film Interview: Jerome Yoo’s Korean-Canadian Exploration of Grief...
In Korean-Canadian filmmaker Jerome Yoo’s debut narrative feature film, Mongrels (2024), Yoo depicts a family attempting to put back the pieces of their broken lives. Building invisible walls between...
View ArticleThe Falling Sky Documentary Interview: Davi Kopenawa & the Yanomami Dream the...
In 2014, Yanomami shaman and activist Davi Kopenawa co-authored The Falling Sky, a landmark work chronicling the Yanomami’s Indigenous worldview and warning of the dire consequences of environmental...
View ArticleLatino Vote 2024 Documentary Interview: A Powerful & Unpredictable Voting Block
In under an hour of exceptionally dense, well-edited content, Latino Vote 2024 showcases Latine communities across the United States, making sure to prove that the Latine voting block is culturally,...
View ArticleAll We Carry Documentary Film Interview: A Migrant Family Seeks a New Beginning
Documentarian Cady Voge‘s heart-touching documentary feature film, All We Carry (Lo que llevamos) (2024), offers an extensive look into the arduous journey of refugees and immigrants traveling through...
View ArticleThe Influencer Film Interview: Experimental Horror w/ Lael Rogers & Megan...
Accomplished Seattle-based writer-director Lael Rogers and producer Megan Leonard have long been making a name for themselves in the Pacific Northwest. Most recently, the creators have embraced...
View ArticleSujo Film Interview: A Young Boy’s Journey through Innocence and Cartel Violence
A narrative feature film co-written and co-directed by Mexican filmmakers Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, Sujo is a powerful, multidimensional work of art about the forces that keep young Mexican...
View ArticleMoloka’i Bound Film Interview: A Native Hawaiʻian Family Drama of Redemption...
Based off of writer-director Alika Tengan (Kanaka Maoli)’s 2019 short film of the same name, Moloka’i Bound is an intimate narrative feature film about a man’s return to society, his family, and his...
View ArticleSongs From the Hole Documentary Film Review: An Incarcerated Artist’s Musical...
Hosted at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute on April 26, the 21st annual Seattle Black Film Festival celebrated opening night with Songs from the Hole, a powerful and moving documentary...
View ArticleBad Faith Documentary Film Interview: Christian Nationalism’s Quest to Sow...
Is there a connection between Christian Nationalism and the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol? According to evidence laid out in the dizzying documentary film, Bad Faith, the answer is an absolute...
View ArticleSeattle International Film Festival 2024: Feature Film Selections
2024 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), which started on May 9. Though SIFF has historically been one of the longest film festivals in the entire country, it...
View ArticleA Bolt from the Blue: A Taste of the Caribbean with Simon Benjamin
On a cloudy day in early April, Black art gallery Wa Na Nari partnered with Black Cinema Collective to showcase a screening of five short films from New York-based Caribbean multi-disciplinary artist...
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