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Local Sightings 2019: Closing Night Happy Hour - Awards Ceremony
Sun Sep 29: 4.15pm
* FREE w/ RSVP! *
Duration: 1.5h
Festival - Local Sightings Film Festival 2019: Special Events
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To close out yet another spectacular festival, award winners for the 22nd edition of Local Sightings Film Festival will be announced on Closing Night!
Jury awards will be presented by Amy Benson, Mia Harrison, and Martin Tran. Free snacks and nibbles for all!
Jury Awards presented by:
AMY BENSON owns Nonfiction Media, a production company based in Seattle where she produces, shoots and edits films telling the stories of organizations around the globe. Since 2008, Amy has been working on a documentary trilogy about one family in Nepal. Drawing the Tiger, the first film, was a granted project of the Sundance Institute, Fork Films and recipient of the Points North Fellowship. It premiered at Hot Docs in April 2015 and screened in over 40 festivals worldwide. She is currently in pre-production for Age of Porn, a feature documentary which chronicles the state of sex education in America through the lens of progressive sex educators. Amy is a founding member of the Seattle Documentary Association and is passionate about supporting filmmakers in their process.
MIA IMANI HARRISON is a Pacific Northwest native interdisciplinary artivist (art + activist) and arts writer that currently lives in Berlin. Harrison interrogates the ways that disenfranchised communities can heal individual, communal, and societal trauma by creating works that live in-between the worlds of art and science. This third-way mixes unconventional methods (dreams, rituals) and science (ethnography, geography, psychoanalysis) to dream new potential ways of being.
MARTIN TRAN has deep roots in the Pacific Northwest. He was born and raised in Washington state, studied film in Olympia, Washington and Vancouver, B.C., and has long called Seattle home. He is the former Co-Director of Seattle Asian American Film Festival (SAAFF), is currently the Project and Events Coordinator for Artists of Color Expo and Symposium (ACES), and also serves as a Producer for the upcoming docuseries Vanishing Seattle, which tells the stories of the places and people being displaced from Seattle. Martin also writes, directs, and produces short films which have played in film festivals across North America.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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