Seattle International Film Festival 2012

Event; Seattle International Film Festival

When: 17 May 2012

Where: Various across Seattle

Festival Venues include: SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Film Center, Pacific Place Cinemas, Harvard Exit Theatres and the Egyptian Theatre.

                       

Opening Night Red Carpet Event on 17 May 2012 at 5.30pm at the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall followed by the Opening Night Gala.

The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees.

In recent years, the SIFF has run for more than three weeks (24 days), in May/June, and features a diverse assortment of predominantly independent and foreign films and, in recent years, a strong contingent of documentaries.

SIFF 2006 included 300+ films and was the first SIFF to include a venue in neighboring Bellevue, Washington, after an ill-fated early attempt. However, in 2008, the festival was back to being entirely in Seattle, and had a slight decrease in the number of feature films. The 2010 festival featured over 400 films, shown primarily in downtown Seattle and its nearby neighborhoods, but also in West Seattle, Everett, Kirkland, and Juanita Beach Park.