By Kristin Gustafson The Seattle South Asian Film Festival will show films in two Seattle locations from Oct. 31 through Nov. 9. SSAF invites us to discover, experience and enjoy through some of the most radical and innovative films on gender, human rights, LGBT issues, education, and the environment coming out of Bangladesh, India, Nepal,…
The Pacific Northwest Historians Guild invites submissions for papers and presentations for its 28th Annual Conference. This year’s conference will be Mar. 7 at Seattle Public Library, Central Library. Proposals are due Dec. 1. The theme for the 2015 conference is The Urban Northwest in Landscape and Story. The guild invites submissions that investigate the…
By Mary Erickson When I was little, my family owned an RCA Videodisc player. This groundbreaking technology, introduced in 1981, used an LP-sized disc encased in plastic, which was inserted into a slot in the front of the machine. Halfway through the movie, we’d have to take out the disc, flip it over, and reinsert…
This article was originally published at If a Tree Falls on October 13, 2014. By Jackie Weissman I’m betting that some readers here don’t really know what a producer does, let alone what an independent producer does. Well, a producer gets films/TV/media, in general, made. They do everything that needs to be done to get…
By Mary Erickson Seattle filmmaker Shaun Scott’s fourth film, Pacific Aggression, delves into the intricacies and intimacies of life within and without the digital world. Meryl Applegate (played by Libby Matthews) is on a digital fast of sorts after admitting she was online stalking writer Frank Waters (played by Trevor Young Marston), who had visited…
By Anne Richardson James Ivory is coming to the Hollywood Theatre on Oct. 10 at 7:00 PM to introduce MAURICE, the winner of the Silver Lion at the 1987 Venice Film Festival. Oregon’s most distinguished filmmaker is famous for his participation in the longest and most productive collaboration in film history, Merchant Ivory Productions. He grew up in Klamath Falls,…
