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The Film Center includes a 90-seat multi-use theater, multi-media classroom, exhibition spaces, archives, and offices for SIFF and the Film School. [12] In October 2011, SIFF Cinema moved from McCaw Hall to its current location in the Uptown Theater. SIFF utilizes all three of the Uptown's three screens for year-round programming.
The SIFF Egyptian Theater reopened on October 3, 2014. [7] The theater returned to the SIFF circuit beginning with the 42nd annual festival in 2016. [8] The theater closed indefinitely in November 2024 due to water damage following a leak on the fourth floor. Several screenings were moved to other SIFF venues around the city. [9]
In 2014, 40% of films coming from female directors as well as the launch of the "Best Emerging Female Filmmaker" award on Closing Night, which was presented to Morgana McKenzie. Highlights from the festival included an animation panel that featured animators Daniel Lund (Frozen), Wilbert Plijnaar (Despicable Me, Ice Age), Connie Thompson ...
The turnaround began in 1997 when developers revealed plans to turn the Cinerama into a dinner theater or a rock-climbing club. This sparked a grassroots effort to save the historic venue, with local film buffs circulating petitions and issuing an urgent cry for help, which was answered by multi-billionaire Paul Allen, himself a movie fan and patron of the theater during its 1960s heyday.
In 2011, SIFF started a "Film Restoration" program to repair and preserve prints of classic Chinese movies. [5] [6]Notable jury members include Oliver Stone, Mark Rydell, István Szabó, Stanislav Rostotsky, Alan Parker, Lee Chang-Dong, Geoffrey Gilmore, François Girard, Olivier Assayas, Luc Besson, Lisa Lu, Donnie Yen, Chen Hao, Tran Anh Hung, Chen Kaige, He Ping, Wong Kar-Wai, Bille August ...
Closing Night: Far from Vietnam (Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and Agnès Varda, France) Barrier (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland) Benefit of the Doubt (Peter Whitehead, UK) Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard, France) Le Départ (Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium) Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
The Fabulous Allan Carr is a 2017 American documentary film from filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz.The film details the story of Hollywood producer Allan Carr, famous for producing Grease, Can't Stop the Music, La Cage aux Folles, and the 1989 Academy Awards.
It was the opening night film at the San Diego International Film Festival [7] and the closing night film at OUTFEST. [8] It also played at film festivals in Dallas, [9] Sarasota, [10] Seattle, [11] Nantucket, [12] Sundance London [13] Prague and Brno. [14] In February 2016, Netflix acquired worldwide streaming rights to the film.