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Seattle Film Critics name Top Ten Films of 2023 and honor Lily Gladstone with Hartl PNW Spotlight

This afternoon, the Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) announced the creation of a new award to specifically honor the outstanding work of a person with local ties to the Pacific Northwest. Named for the late John Hartl, the Seattle Times film critic whose wrote film criticism and features for the paper for decades, the Pacific Northwest Spotlight award will be presented annually by the SFCS board to acknowledge an exceptional body of work, rather than a single film or performance, that represents the region.

Festivals News

Telluride kicks off 50th SHOW with lineup drop, tribute announcements

The most mysterious of the big fall film festivals, Telluride keeps its lineup a secret until festivalgoers are ​already en route to the high-altitude of the San Juan mountain town. Sure enough, just as I was boarding my flight for Colorado they provided me ample reading material to prep for the extended Labor Day weekend of moviegoing.

Festivals News

Telluride 2022: Up, up, and away, 49th edition of the Show launches tomorrow

September marks the beginning of “Awards Season” proper, with three major international festivals providing platforms for some of the world’s greatest filmmakers to make a splash in front of adoring audiences. Venice kicked off earlier this week, TIFF launches on September 8 in Toronto, and high in the San Juans mountains, Telluride Film Festival provides a breathtaking setting for a Labor Day weekend packed with films.

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SIFF favorite All Sorts gets a red carpet premiere tonight at the Egyptian

The road from conception to production to premiere can be long and winding for any film, let alone a regionally-filmed indie, and all the more so for one whose launch is muddled by something like a global pandemic that drastically disrupted theatrical releases. Such is the case for J. Rick Castañeda’s All Sorts, which was filmed in Central Washington way back in 2018. When it had its virtual premiere during SIFF 2021, it was a consensus favorite at the SunBreak.