The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) kicks off tomorrow night with the annual Opening Night Gala, featuring a screening of Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister. This year marks the first time in the history of SIFF that work by a Seattle-based filmmaker has opened the festival. Check out the trailer below: Shelton is not the only Northwest filmmaker getting some [...]

Registration is now open for Project Youth Doc 2012 (PYD)! The summer program is open to students age 13-16. Participants will complete an intense course in documentary video taught by professional filmmakers, using pro production equipment, industry standard lighting, sound gear, HD cameras and Final Cut Pro equipped Macs. PYD students create documentaries focusing on the most powerful force in [...]

Check out the Seattle International Film Festival official trailer, courtesy of agency Wong, Doody, Crandall, Wiener and production company World Famous!

Intuit GoPayment is pairing up with golf pro Jeff Coston to shoot a national commercial on 2nd Avenue between University and Seneca Streets tomorrow, April 17, from 11am to 1:30pm—and want you to join them! Come out of your office for a once in a lifetime opportunity to put your golfing skills to the ultimate test, with a 200-foot long [...]

Reactions to the Film Program’s Renewal Members of Washington’s production community poured forth with celebratory—and congratulatory—words about the Motion Picture Competitiveness Program’s hard-fought battle for renewal. Take a look… I was privileged to be a “Team Captain” working with Washington Filmworks. While the process seemed frustrating and mind boggling at times, it was great learning the political ropes and was [...]

Several Washington- and Oregon-made films screened at this spring’s South by Southwest (SxSW) Film Festival. Here’s a look at a few of them: Eden Seattle writer/director Megan Griffiths’ third feature film made its premiere at SxSW this year—and won three awards in competition. Eden won the Audience Award for Narrative Feature, the Jury Special Award for Performance (Jamie Chung), and [...]

With more than $110 million in production spend, 2011 was a record-shattering year for Oregon film and television. But never content to rest on its laurels, the state’s film community continues to grow and attract major productions in 2012. Here’s a look at some recent Oregon production projects: Wheel of Fortune The popular game show was on location in Portland [...]

Rick Phillips started KTVA-Milwaukie-Ch.3 (later to become KTVA Productions), a local cable advertising channel, in 1987. A few other items of note occurred that same year. News: • “Baby Jessica,” Jessica McClure, falls down the well and is later rescued. • Black Monday (October 19), Dow drops 22%, had topped 2,700, ends 1987 at 1938. • Wall Street financier Ivan [...]

By Tim Underwood, Guest Columnist A customer asks: “Hey… you guys have any openings next week?” A business answers: “Nope, and unfortunately we won’t until the following week.” A customer asks: “Hey… you guys have any openings next week?” A business answers: “We can get you in the following Monday bright and early at 8 o’clock… will that work for [...]

By Pip McCaslin, Guest Columnist I started my company, Realtime, Inc.,  back in ’86 as an audio cassette duplicator. A really small business. Back in those days our primary clients were local bands and musicians, with a smattering of regional voice-talent and business types. My initial pile of consumer tape decks eventually expanded into a massive, semi-automated stack of 120 [...]