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ID: 4 movie posters with SDFF Winner Laurels, from top left: Diagnonsense, Imaginings, Shhh!, and To My Father.
CONGRATS TO SDFF 2024 WINNERS!
Congratulations to the award winners for Seattle Deaf Film Festival 2024! SDFF viewers selected these films as four of their favorites.
Best Comedy: Shhh! by Shamir Raiapov, Kyrgyzstan
Best Drama: Diagnonsense by Samuel Dore, United Kingdom
Best Documentary: To My Father by Sean Schiavolin, United States
Best Other: Imaginings by Anja Hiddinga, Netherlands
Thank you to all of the Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing filmmakers who joined SDFF 2024. We look forward to seeing your talent continue to grow.
And thank you to everybody who supported our 7th festival! We’ll see you again in 2026.
THANK YOU FOR COMING TO OUR FILM FESTIVAL!
SEE YOU IN 2026!
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Congrats to all filmmakers whose films are accepted to Seattle Deaf Film Festival 2024!
The official film roster is here! Thank you again to all the filmmakers, actors, producers, and directors that have participated and submitted their films. 85 total submissions?! Wow!
All the filmmakers did a great job and made the screening committee's job very hard. We have narrowed it down to 44 films, with representation from 11 countries – France, United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Chile, China, Canada, Italy, and Kyrgyzstan.
ID to come soon!
Thank you all for participating in KFFC 2024!
The 2024 KissFist Film Challenge is a wrap! Want to see what our intrepid filmmakers created? Tune into Seattle Deaf Film Festival in April. Check out the KissFist website for details. Thank you to everybody who joined this incredible challenge!
FESTIVAL COMMITTEE
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Patty Liang
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
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Michael Anthony
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
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Buddy Elledge
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
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Jason Eastman
KISSFIST FILM CHALLENGE LEAD
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Andrea Passafiume
SCREENING COMMITTEE LEAD & PROGRAMMING LEAD
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Lore Ameloot
HOSPITALITY LEAD
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Theo Calhoun
VIDEO EDITOR
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Aimee Chou
SPONSORSHIP TEAM
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Anne Danahy
COMMITTEE MEMBER
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Tabitha Jacques
SPONSORSHIP TEAM
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Danica Metlay
VOLUNTEER LEAD
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Linds Phelan
VIDEO EDITOR
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Bruce Visser
TICKETING LEAD
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Candace Williams
COMMUNCIATIONS LEAD
SPONSORS
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SDFF ARCHIVES
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