SIFF screenings are underway!!

Stay tuned for this year's first reviews of SIFF. Once again, the cool press office at the Seattle International FIlm Festival has given me a press pass for the festival. Which means I'll be seeing lots of films at the press preview screenings, and will be able to give you a peek into what's happening up in Seattle. (You know Seattle, it's that town you drive through to get to Canada)

If you can't make it up to the festival, don't worry, because we will likely be playing many of the films screening there. That's one of the functions of film festivals - to give new films a platform which anticipates their theatrical release, or not. Sadly, many films will only get this one chance to be seen onscreen. But perhaps that's not so sad. The films chosen for the festival have already made a big step by having made the cut for the festival in the first place.

So, to all the films which are quirky, strange, foreign (in more ways than just language) oddball or otherwise not mainstream enough to be considered for alternative art-house theatrical distribution, to you I say bravo. For this festival will be your 90 or so minutes of fame. Hey, that's not bad - it's more than an hour extra fame than Warhol alloted. Now, if you followed that thread of thought, you deserve a prize.

Anyway, I'll do my best to be a good lookout at the festival, and take great notes, which I shall of course post in this blog!