Event

"Still I Reach For You" (film) Seattle Premiere

"Still I Reach For You" -A Life In the Day of An AIDS Widow, is a 50-minute feature from writer-director Victor Janusz, released in 2023, that has taken the international film festival circuit by storm! An official Selection at over 30 festivals it has won 19 Awards, including Best Indie Feature (8-1/2 Festival/Rome, Madrid, Athens, Sweden, and 3 top prizes at New Jersey Film Awards, among others).

Filmed entirely in King County, the film features actors Ryan Higgins, Adam Michael Waldo, Kathy Hsieh, Lori Larsen, Victor Janusz, ADE, Eric Pitsenbarger, Arwen Dewey, Aaron Fury, Jeremy Steckler, Sean Paul Nofsinger, David Johansson and others. Featuring a soundtrack performed entirely by Victor Janusz Band featuring Medearis Dixson.

Written & Directed by Janusz. Cinematographer/Editor: Tyler Aaron Parsons. Sound: Katie Smith. Pete Remine. Post Audio: Dave Pascal. Produced by Scott Trethewey, VJ, Karla Eskro.
SAG-AFTRA Contract.

Recipient of an ARTIST TRUST 2022 GAP Grant,
4-Culture (King County) Heritage Grant 2023.

A Short-Subject Film "SPIN" (2014) from Seattle Filmmaker Tom McIntire was chosen by Janusz as a thematically linked curtain raiser for the Premiere! "I have always been a fan of filmmaker Tom McIntire...his work is always eloquent and elegant!"

POST-SHOW "Talkback" with the Filmmaker & Special Guests --Including Doctor Anna Wald (Infectious Diseases/UW Medicine), Health Counselor Mark Fleming--, follow each showing!