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Emin Alper Interview: Tackling Authoritarianism in Turkey Through Neo-Noir...
Filmmaker Emin Alper, director of several award-winning drama films, cites An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play about a doctor’s crisis of conscience, as a chief inspiration for his...
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Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound Interview: Saving Magnetic Media...
When a visitor walks into the office of Seattle’s Motion Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS), their eyes immediately take in racks of blocky recording equipment and bundles of multicolored...
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Indigenous Musicians Rising: An Interconnected View on Contemporary Creative...
“There’s this kind of an unspoken language between some Native artists … in terms of setting our own definitions of Indigeneity and not having it be the defining throughline in all of our art … we kind...
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Clyde Petersen Interview: Even Hell Has its Heroes Explores Earth, PNW’s...
In Even Hell Has Its Heroes, Clyde Petersen’s feature documentary, the Washington animator and filmmaker opens a mesmerizing, 108-minute portal into the many layers of Earth — the Olympia-to-Seattle...
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NNAMDÏ Artist Interview: Endless Creative Inspiration for Worldbuilding
NNAMDÏ is the type of multidisciplinary artist whose playful approach to creativity renders him instantly disarming. The Chicago-based musician, whose real name is Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, makes art that is...
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The Multiverse of the Dreaming Mind, Pt. 1: From Cave Paintings to...
Dreaming: that thing we all do every night, whether or not we remember it, like it, or can make any sense of it. Through most of human history, dreams have played a central role in shaping daily life....
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Lynn Shelton’s “Of A Certain Age” 2023 Grant Finalists: 14 Filmmakers to...
Now in its fourth year, the Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant awards $25,000 in unrestricted funds to one woman, nonbinary, transgender, and/or intersex filmmaker over 39 who has yet to make their...
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Bad Press Documentary Film Interview: Fighting for Free Press in Indian Country
For journalists at Mvskoke Media, the Muscogee Creek Nation’s only newspaper, November 8th, 2018 was “fucking D-Day.” That was the day that the tribal government voted to repeal the nation’s free press...
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Milisuthando Documentary Film Interview: The Lasting Impacts of Apartheid and...
Created by Milisuthando Bongela, Milisuthando (2023) is the powerful documentary feature film which bears the Indigenous South African creator’s name. The appropriately hyper-personal work features...
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The Media War Between Palestine and Israel – and the Struggle for Humanity
Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, declared on Oct. 7 — after Hamas operatives infiltrated Israel and killed an estimated 1,200 people and took over 200 hostage — has provoked earth-shattering headlines...
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Sundance Film Festival 2024: Feature Film Picks
The 40th Annual Sundance Film Festival takes place from January 18 to 28, with online screenings beginning on the 25th and lasting only three full days. In a record-breaking year, 17,000 short and...
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Sundance Film Festival 2024: Short Film Selectons
The 40th Annual Sundance Film Festival takes place from January 18 to 28, with online screenings beginning on the 25th and lasting only three full days. In a record-breaking year, 15,000 short films...
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Invisible Landscapes Documentary Film Interview: Media to Sonically Explore...
A multi-platform multimedia project, Future Landscapes approaches climate change in a novel way. At its centerpiece is a documentary short film entitled Invisible Landscapes — which visits sites of...
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There Was, There Was Not Film Interview: Emily Mkrtichian Shines a Light on...
“There was, there was not” is a common opening line for Armenian fairy tales. Filmmaker and multimedia artist Emily Mkrtichian adopts this line as the title for her feature debut — a documentary that...
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Three Promises Film Interview: A Remarkable Story of Family Filmmaking in...
Palestinian filmmaker Yousef Srouji has called himself an “accidental filmmaker.” Divine timing could be another way of interpreting the creation of his first film, Three Promises, which premiered in...
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Seagrass Film Interview: Meredith Hama-Brown on Discomfort, Uncertainty & Death
By the time one arrives at the half-resort, half-therapeutic center which serves as the main setting for writer-director Meredith Hama-Brown‘s narrative feature film, Seagrass, it’s already quite...
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Songs 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...
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Moloka’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...
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Sujo 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...
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Soo Hong Artist Interview: Repetition, Reinvention & Not Staying Still
Painter and visual artist Soo Hong refuses to stay still. As an artist who constantly challenges herself to experience fulfillment through her artistic practice, Hong’s paintings mirror the fluidity of...
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