SIFFcast

Join SIFF Artistic Director Beth Barrett as she talks with the filmmakers of Street Gang and Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation. They discuss the unique challenges of telling the stories of three of icons of American culture: Sesame Street, Truman Capote, and Tennessee Williams.

Featuring Marilyn Agrelo and producer Ellen Scherer Crafts (Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street) and director Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation).

SIFFcast presents another recorded roundtable filmmaker discussion from the festival.

Programmer Colleen O'Holleran joins five directors from this year's Festival to talk about their films playing as part of WTF (Wild, Terrifying, and Fantastic).

They explore their journeys in making shorts and features, share observations related to gender in genre cinema, and discuss the glories and horrors of genre filmmaking both behind and in front of the camera.

SIFFcast presents a Filmmaker Roundtable from SIFF 2021. SIFF programmer Dan Doody moderates a roundtable discussion with the filmmakers of four documentary shorts: Huntsville Station, Abortion Helpline - This is Lisa, Coffee & Sugar, and Snowy.

These documentary short filmmakers break down what it took to find their subjects and how they elevated their stories into something universal.

SIFFcast presents one of the live Q&As from SIFF 2021. SIFF programmer Megan Leonard interviews the filmmakers behind this year's Sundance breakout SUMMERTIME, screening online at SIFF now.

Jeremy sits down with filmmakers Iuli Gerbase (The Pink Cloud)and Cássio Pereira Dos Santo (Valentina) to talk about their feature debuts, both screening as part of SIFF's Ibero-American Cinema program.

They discuss the eerie parallels between The Pink Cloud and our year in quarantine, how to better center LGBTQIA voices on screen, and the state of Brazilian cinema today.

Featuring directors SJ Chiro (East of the Mountains), Rick Castañeda (All Sorts), Andrew Hyatt (All Those Small Things) and Wes Hurley (Potato Dreams of America). SIFFcast sits down with a few of the filmmakers from this year's Northwest Connections program to discuss casting locally, filming in Washington and finishing their films in the midst of a pandemic.

Each year, SIFF honors the many ways in which the Puget Sound region contributes to the world of cinema, whether it acts as an evocative location for outside filmmakers or as inspiration for local filmmakers ready to strut their stuff.

We welcome Eddie Muller, host of TCM's Noir Alley and best known as the "Czar of Noir", to talk about the Noir City film festival taking place at SIFF from 2/14-2/20. The 2020 edition of Noir City will feature an array of classic films from around the globe—a wide-ranging, thematically cohesive immersion in a sordid world of sinister and sexy affairs.

Part two of two-part series. Co-hosts Jeremy Cropf and SJ Chiro sit down with a panel of local filmmakers, programmers and film critics to discuss their favorite directors and films from 2019. Director Kasi Lemmons (Eve's Bayou) sits down with Jeremy to talk about her hit Oscar-nominated film HARRIET featuring rising-star Cynthia Eviro.

Part one of two-part series. Co-hosts Jeremy Cropf and SJ Chiro sit down with a panel of local filmmakers, programmers and film critics to discuss the best performances and scripts of the past year. Academy Award-winning stunt coordinator Robert Nagle joins the show to talk about creating the most realistic racing sequences ever put on film for James Mangold's PGA-nominated film FORD V. FERRARI.

On the third episode of SCARED SIFF, Colleen and Clinton talk about their favorite portrayals of Satan in film and local comedian Emmett Montgomery sits down with Clinton to discuss Ari Aster's MIDSOMMAR.