In a two-hour long virtual broadcast/tweetstorm, the Seattle Film Critics Society unveiled their (our) nominations for the best in 2022 film across …
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Seattle Film Critics Society spotlights achievements in local filmmaking with PNW Award
This morning, the Seattle Film Critics Association (a few of your friendly neighborhood SunBreakers are members) announced nominations for a new annual …
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.
Orcas Island Film Festival Rebounds in 2022
The much-beloved Orcas Island Film Festival took 2020 off for the pandemic but eased its way back in 2021 in a more …
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.
Nature is healing … Orcas Island Film Festival Returns for 2021
Like most other film festivals, the much-beloved Orcas Island Film Festival took 2020 off for the pandemic. It’s usual fall dates coincided …
On Stream: Thin Skin premieres online in Bentonville
In another timeline, Thin Skin, Charles Mudede’s film adaptation of Ahamefule Oluo’s off-Broadway production Now I’m Fine (and This American Life segment, …
On Screen: Civil Rights and BLM edition
Admittedly, in this week’s recommendations we are four white voices discussing black films and black artists. Theirs are the voices we’d like …
MOVIE NEWS: May the Fourth be With You…
Washington’s Stay-at-Home order was extended through May 4, which might be the earliest theaters can reopen. Or maybe not. The movie theater …
FILM NEWS: the quarantine continues…
The COVID-19 quarantines are continuing with maybe some hope for things receding in mid-April. There’s not a ton going on right now, …