Trauma and pleasure. Two things that are different, yet when it comes to sex, the one sometimes can bring shame to the other. One is not our fault, the trauma that happens to us, so why do we feel shame about feeling good when it […]
Making her first feature film at 42, Indigenous filmmaker Erica Tremblay is pissed off she hadn’t got the opportunity sooner. Despite being told ‘no’ many times, she kept going and continued on making her own short films, and eventually landed in the writer’s room of […]
We could not have had the year we had without you. 2020 was hard for many reasons and in many ways, but we stuck together as a filmmaking and womxn in film community, and that made it all worthwhile. In the spirit of the holidays […]
SEATTLE, WA (OCTOBER 28th, 2020) — This year, to honor the legacy of beloved filmmaker Lynn Shelton, Northwest Film Forum and Duplass Brothers Productions launched the Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant. This $25,000 unrestricted cash grant is modeled after Shelton’s own history in the […]
Recipient of 2020 “Of a Certain Age” grant announced. It started on the set of “We Go Way Back” in 2006. Lynn Shelton was directing her first feature at the age of 39, and Megan Griffiths was her first AD. They both did not know […]
PRESENTERS TO INCLUDE EMILY BLUNT, KAITLYN DEVER, ROSEMARIE DEWITT, THE DUPLASS BROTHERS, JOSHUA LEONARD AND REESE WITHERSPOON AMONG OTHERS FEATURING MUSICAL PERFORMANCES FROM MARC MARON, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE’S BEN GIBBARD, ANDREW BIRD, LAURA VEIRS, BREATHE OWL BREATHE, TOMO NAKAYAMA AND MANY MORESEATTLE, WA (June 10th, […]