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12th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival
Local Sightings is a film festival for the Northwest.
Northwest Film Forum's 12th annual premiere showcase of Northwest filmmaking will take place October 2-7, 2009. The festival, which happens at NWFF's theaters in Seattle, features great prizes, filmmaker parties, archival Northwest films and an impressive national film industry jury looking for strong Northwest work.
The annual festival includes both feature film presentations as well as short film programs and special events with live film performances, installation art, audience participation and parties. Included in this year's festival will be the usual assortment of fiction, documentary and experimental films as well as a featured presentation of a historical Seattle film, and an opening party to ignite Seattle's film scene Friday night and keep it bleary eyed Saturday morning.
Visit the official Local Sightings website
Press release - September 15, 2009
*New - Program text - September 22, 2009
Image 2 - Opening night film, "Mountain, River and the Road"
Image 3 - Opening night film, "Mountain, River and the Road"
Image 3 - Historic film, "Film Originals, the work of George and Helen Smith"
Image 4 - Documentary, "Wheedle's Groove"
Image 5 - Documentary, "American Collectors"
