SIFF just announced that they’re “revitalizing” their Northwest Connections series this year:
Sixteen extraordinary features and documentaries and thirteen shorts pay tribute to the thriving filmmaking community in and around Seattle, and highlight an enduring international interest in cinema from and about the Northwest.
That means we’ll finally get to see Seattle’s three lauded entries in Sundance 2009: Lynn Shelton’s Humpday, David Russo’s The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, and Bobcat Goldthwait’s World’s Greatest Dad.
Crowning the series is the SIFF Centerpiece Gala on Friday, June 5, honoring Humpday, the acclaimed new feature from Seattle director Lynn Shelton. Filmed in Seattle, Humpday is the story of two college buddies who test the limits of heterosexual male bonding by agreeing to take part in an amateur porn contest, based on the real-life competition held by The Stranger.
Northwest Connections will also screen Sandy Cioffi’s documentary Sweet Crude, the filming of which landed her in a Nigerian prison for a week.
I thought they screened Sweet Crude a few years ago?
Humpday at SIFF? The Stranger blogging about it? NO WAY, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT!?
@1: That was a work-in-progress screening, but yes.
HUMPDAY is also in Cannes!
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