ID: A dark blue starry banner with an orange pink octopus’ tentacles from the left edge with flying popcorns scattered throughout the banner. Text on right: “Seattle Deaf Film Festival, April 2026”.
ID: Seattle Deaf Film poster of a headshot of a purple astronaut helmet with text: “Seattle Deaf Film Festival” and text: “April 2026” above the helmet. Orange pink octopus’ tentacles spreading from the bottom of the helmet with some popcorn floating in the starry space.
Open Call for Film Submissions is now closed.
Thank you to all filmmakers who submitted their films to our festival! We have received many films this year!
We are thrilled that more filmmakers are creating Deaf cinema to share with the world! We will announce the final lineup in early 2026.
See you at the Northwest Film Forum or virtually in April 2026!
Questions, email sdff@deafspotlight.org.
FESTIVAL COMMITTEE
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MJ Kiego
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
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Patty Liang
LOGISTICS
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Michael Anthony
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
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Buddy Elledge
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
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Sam Kelly
COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
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Danica Metlay
VOLUNTEER LEAD
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Toj Mora
STREAMING PLATFORM LEAD
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Andrea Passafiume
SCREENING COMMITTEE LEAD & PROGRAMMING LEAD
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Napal Tesfai
HOSPITALITY
SPONSORS
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ID: Artsfund Logo -a white background with orange "A" with two leaves sprouting from left and black capitalized text: ARTS (bold) FUND.
ID: ArtsWA Logo - a Washington shaped icon with geometric triangles in different colors: teal, orange, red, yellow and dark green with white capitalized text: ARTS (BOLD) and WA (thin) inside the state. Teal capitalized text: Washington State Arts Commission.
ID: Final Draft logo- a large black text across the center, "Final Draft". Smaller text undreneath, slightly off to the side: "A Cast & Crew Company". Three overlapping yellow triangles border the edge of the large text, suggestigng the top corner of a sheaf of pages being flipped through.
ID: Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Logo - a white background with blue logo "C" over "A&" and text: Office of Arts & Culture with a line over SEATTLE.
ID: Stoup Brewing Logo- a hexagon with a light rail train in front of a city skyline across the top, with “Stoup” in orange text below, and “Capitol Hill” in dark text on bottom, matching the color of the border around the hexagon.
ID: Silver Cloud Inn Logo- TBD
ID: a black and white group photo of SDFF 2016 Committee.
SDFF ARCHIVES
Deaf Spotlight believes in bringing authentic stories by Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing creatives to the screen. Please browse through our past festivals.