Jenn and Chase are back to report on the strange goings-on of the North Bend Film Festival.
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NBFF 2021: Ayar, The Witches of the Orient
Two films that were featured in this year’s North Bend Film Fest have unusual takes on what “experimental documentary filmmaking” might look like.
NBFF 2021: Superior announces an exciting new voice
Erin Vassilopoulos’ debut feature takes daring stylistic risks that pay off in this tense tale of misplaced identity, familial reconciliation, and feminist empowerment.
NBFF 2021: Tailgate, Luchadoras
A tense Dutch horror flick and an inspiring Mexican documentary, both available virtually via NBFF through the end of the weekend.
NBFF 2021: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a crushing debut about isolation in the internet age
There is so much that just completely knocks you flat with We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, an incisive and stirring look at what it means to grow up in near complete isolation with the internet as your primary conduit to the world.
The SunBreak at North Bend Film Festival!
Something strange is once again happening in North Bend, and Jenn and Chase are diving in.
Shoreline Short Film Fest Goes Drive-In
The first thing that I should tell you about this weekend’s Shoreline’s drive-in film festival is that, as of this writing, there …
SIFF 2021: Together, Together, Too Far Away, and This Town
My love for comedies has no bounds. Typically I watch films to escape, and I realize that seems pretty limiting considering all the documentaries, dramas and thrillers out there but comedies will forever be my first love. Over the last year as I binge watched like I’ve never binged before, I started to realize Netflix originals, new releases and even HBO are all full of dramas and downers, murders and destruction, depression and angst. I welcome any and all stories, but during a pandemic I don’t find comfort in reality or looking down the barrel of our dismal ecological future. Can a girl just laugh? Damn. The three movies I’m going to talk about below may have had a little strife here and there but they were just fun and heartfelt, exactly what I needed right now.
SIFF 2021: That’s a Wrap
We’ve had a very busy eleven days covering this year’s first-ever virtual Seattle International Film Festival with roundtables and reviews of the bounty of cinema brought to our homes by technology and the tireless programmers and organizers. On Sunday night SIFF handed out awards and closed the festival with Catalan dramedy Rosa’s Wedding. Since then, the SunBreak’s SIFF Squad virtually assembled to chat about our experience with this year’s event and to rehash some of our festival favorites.
SIFF 2021: There Is No Evil & Under the Open Sky
Official Competition films There is No Evil and Under the Open Sky had found a perpetual spot on my “watch later” queue, but when I saw that they secured top spots among the audience awards, I knew that I had to use the waning hours of SIFF Privilege to make them my Closing Night double feature (with apologies to Rosa’s Wedding).