4–5:30 pm - Best of the West FILM Block
The Best of the West Film Block will kick off the 2019 Seattle Film Summit on Friday, November 15. The block will feature festival-nominated, select short films that are telling important stories of our region and nation. The filmmakers will be in attendance, and this a don’t-miss block:
Dust Monologues, with actor Wes Studi (Last of the Mohicans, Avatar, Hostiles), who just became the first Native American actor to receive an Oscar on October 27, 2019
Things That Fall, in the running for the 92nd Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
Retch, selection for the Seattle International Film Festival 2019 and more
Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages (JAMP), educating people about the WWII Japanese American incarceration camps
Substance, official selection for the Beverly Hills Film Festival 2019, Langston Hughes African American Film Festival 2019 and more, written and directed by renowned animator Jamaal Bradley
And don’t miss other great, hand-picked shorts (and their filmmakers) in this block, TBA shortly!
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5:30–7:45 pm - Robert the Bruce
The Epic Rise of Scotland's Greatest Hero
Directed by Richard Gray
Written by Eric Belgau and Angus Macfadyen
Starring Angus Macfadyen
Scotland, 1306. Scotland's new King, Robert the Bruce (Angus Macfadyen: Braveheart) flees the English army after suffering a crushing defeat at Strath-Fillan. Injured and alone, Scotland's last hope for freedom finds refuge in the croft of a widowed peasant (Anna Hutchinson: The Cabin in the Woods), whose Lord has sworn allegiance to England and whose men stalk the forest in search of the king they reject. Through a cold, cruel winter, risking her life and the lives of her children, she nurses him back to health, forging a bond that reignites his passion for freedom and a Scotland for all her people — which he will earn on the field at Bannockburn.
Richard Grey, Eric Belgau and Carter Boehn will be in attendance for Q&A after the screening.
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7:45–10 pm - The Parish
Mighty Tripod Productions
A Supernatural Horror Feature
Directed by David S. Hogan
Written by Todd Downing
Starring Angela DiMarco, Sanae Loutsis and Bill Oberst Jr.
Haunted by the death of her husband, Liz uproots her daughter and moves them to a small town, where the real nightmares begin.
David S. Hogan, Angela DiMarco, Sanae Loutsis and Bill Oberst Jr. will be in attendance for Q&A after the screening.