Seattle Deaf Film Festival: ARCHIVES
Upper ID: a black background with white text: "Seattle Deaf Film Festival: ARCHIVES" and a black and white image on left: SDFF committee with the Deaf Spotlight logo backdrop posing and smiling at Seattle Deaf Film Festival 2016. It began with a desire to bring community together to experience cinema that celebrate Deaf culture and sign languages.
ID: A film poster with a blue splat on a red patterned background, with text inside the splat: “SDFF 2024 virtual tickets are available now!” On left, a silhouetted rabbit with a yellow knit hat. Blue splat at bottom with festival sponsors from left: Deaf Spotlight, 4Culture, ArtsFund, ArtsWA, City of Seattle Arts and Culture, NEA and Stoup Brewing.
2024: April 5–7 at Northwest Film Forum
Virtual: April 8–22
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
ID: Blue dusk background with mountains on the bottom and pine trees on both sides of the banner. Yellow mustard Sasquatch peers out of a tree and waves on the left. Deaf Spotlight logo below it. Neon sign on right for “SEATTLE DEAF FILM FESTIVAL, deafspotlight.org/sdff." Text: "April 8 - 22, 2022” on left.
2022: April 8-22 virtually in partnership with Northwest Film Forum
BEST COMEDY: Two Deaf Yorkshiremen in Lockdown
Director: Louis Neethling, United Kingdom
BEST DRAMA: Veneer
Director: Louis Neethling, United Kingdom
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Who the Hell Is Nigel?
Director: Nigel Edwards, Canada
BEST EXPERIMENTAL: A Visual Meditation on Natural Gestures
Director: Willy Conley, United States
KissFist Film Challenge / Community Vote Selection: Duplicitous
Director: Roy Michael Maguire, Denmark
KissFist Film Challenge / Committee Vote Selection: The Text
Director: Talitha Asteria, United States
ID: a green-blue rectangular banner with multicolored rain falling on a forest on the bottom, with the Seattle skyline bursting out of the middle of the forest. Over the skyline is a red umbrella with the text "Seattle Deaf Film Festival". On the right, there is a dark teal vertical banner with Deaf Spotlight logo and white text: date| online". On the bottom in the middle : website. Sponsors at bottom.
2020: July 10-12 virtually in partnership with Northwest Film Forum
BEST DOCUMENTARY: I Want To Change The World
Director: Sebastian Cunliffe, United Kingdom
BEST DRAMA: To Know Him
Director: Ted Evans, United Kingdom
BEST COMEDY: LIGHTNING
Director: Cristina Isol, United Kingdom
BEST OTHER: Dear Hearing World
Director: Adam Dockter, United Kingdom
BEST KISSFIST FILM CHALLENGE: The Witnesses
Directors: Garrett Zuercher & Jared Johnston, United States
2018: March 30 - April 1
BEST MUSICAL / ANIMATION: Deaffest 2017 Music Video: I Believe
Director: Bim Ajadi, United Kingdom
BEST DRAMA: Wild Prairie Rose
Director: Deborah LaVine, United States
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Whirlpool
Director: Elizabeth Dixon & Kate Baxter, United Kingdom
BEST COMEDY: This is Ed!!
Director: Bob Hiltermann, United States
BEST THRILLER / SUSPENSE: Deafening Darkness
Director: Mark Trifunovic, Canada
ID: a purple cosmic sky background with a rising pale grey moon from the black forest with white text: "MARCH 30 - APRIL 1, 2018 | NORTHWEST FILM FORUM | SEATTLE, WA". Inside the moon, there is white text: "SEATTLE DEAF FILM FESTIVAL 2018”. Sponsor logos at bottom.
ID: a forest background with a bordered badge in the middle with colorful text: 2016 Seattle Deaf Film Festival with a banner across it with date. Gray rectangular box with white text: location address. A white banner across the poster with text: More (orange) - WWW.SEATTLEDEAFFILMFESTIVAL.COM (black)- Info (orange) with orange dots across the borders. Gray rectangular box below with blue text: ALL FILMS WILL BE SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH. Sponsor logos at bottom.
2016: April 1 - 3
@ Northwest Film Forum
BEST FILM OF THE FESTIVAL: Femmes sourdes, dites-moi…( Deaf Women Told Me...)
Director: Marie-Andree Boivin, Canada
BEST ACTION / THRILLER: Supersonic
Director: Samuel Dore, United Kingdom
BEST DRAMA: You, Me
Director: Simon Herdman, United Kingdom
BEST COMEDY/MUSICAL : Passengers
Director: Dickie Hearts, United States
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Femmes sourdes,dites-moi… (Deaf Women Told Me...)
Director: Marie-Andree Boivin, Canada
BEST ANIMATION: Look!
Director: Udo Prinsen, Netherlands
2014: April 4 - 6
@ Northwest Film Forum
BEST ACTION/THRILLER: I Won’t Do That Again!
Director: William Horsefield, United Kingdom
BEST DRAMA: This is Normal
Director: Ryan Welsh, United States
BEST COMEDY / MUSICAL: Still Here
Director: Louis Neethling, United Kingdom
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Ik Gebbar, Ik Leef (I Sign, I Live)
Director: Anja Hiddinga, Netherlands
BEST ANIMATION: Une balade à la mer (A Ride Towards the Sea)
Director: Damien Stein, France
ID: a festival poster with a view of a sailor navigating a boat towards the Seattle cityscape. At top: “Seattle Deaf Film Festival, April 4-6, 2014, Northwest Film Forum.” Sponsors at the bottom.
ID: a bordered poster with Public Pike Place-inspired signage: Seattle Deaf Film Festival with a bird sitting on it. Red text below the image: MARCH 30 - APRIL 1, 2012, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, KANE HALL 120. Sponsors at bottom.
2012: March 30 - April 1
@ UW Kane Hall
BEST FEATURE: The Hammer
Director: Oren Kaplan, United States
BEST DRAMA: The End
Director: Ted Evans, United Kingdom
BEST COMEDY: All Day
Director: Nadia Nadarajah, United Kingdom
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Austin Unbound
Directors: Eliza Greenwood & Sel Staley, United States
BEST ANIMATION: Chasing Cotton Clouds
Director: Sam Dore, United Kingdom
Lower ID: teal background with colorful raindrops (yellow, mint, orange, dark green). 