and now, a word...

From Virginia Bogert, President Emerita 

The Seattle International Film Festival opens on May 17 with the premiere of Your Sister’s Sister by Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton, one of many Women in Film members who are screening films at SIFF this year. The line-up includes Sue Corcoran, screening her feature Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas, and Megan Griffith screening Eden, plus countless more female filmmakers showing their shorts. (Not petticoats!) Check out the Featured Member section where this month we feature not just one but many WIF members in SIFF this year. WIF is also so very proud to be one of the supporters and SIFF partners of opening night at Seattle International Film Festival.
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Each year WIF Seattle supports SIFF. This year we are also an opening night supporter. Come have your pictures taken with us at SIFF on opening night at the after-party in the Exhibition Hall at McCaw Hall in Seattle Center. We also sponsor one film each year and this year it’s Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas, written, produced, and directed by Sue Corcoran, with Susan LaSalle and Jane Charles as producers. A WIF celebration at Ten Mercer follows “Ira’s” premiere at the Uptown Theater. Join us then!

WIF also co-hosts a Filmmaker Forum with SIFF and NW Screenwriter’s Guild at the SIFF Film Center 305 Harrison on May 26 1:00-3pm, moderated by Steve Edmiston of Invicta Law and me, Virginia Bogert. Check out our news feature for more details.

Please support all your local filmmakers at SIFF this year. See the Featured Member section for information about the great women filmmakers with films at SIFF 2012.