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♪♪

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[BETH BARRETT] I am coming to you

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from the balcony
of the Egyptian Theatre on Capitol Hill.

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SIFF 2022 is a true hybrid experience.

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You know, one of the things
that we learned from being virtual

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last year was that people SIFFed
in very different ways.

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Some people really love being part
of the festival from their home.

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I know I love being part
of the festival in person.

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And so going into this year
with the planning,

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we were really very clear
that we wanted as many films as we could

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to be available,
both in-person and virtually,

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and we wanted to sort of
have that accessibility so that people

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could share these amazing films
in the way that felt comfortable for them.

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So we have 262 films,

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we've got 155 feature presentations
and 13 short-film

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packages, and all of those
will be available in cinemas.

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We also have 95 of those feature films
and all 13 short film packages available

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on our SIFF channel, and those will be
available on demand from April 14 to 24.

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This year
we have 80 countries of production

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representing
and that's that's pretty standard for us.

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One of our true tenants
is to bring the world to Seattle.

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And as we're doing our curation,
as we're doing our programing,

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we're very cognizant and very aware
of the fact that we are representing

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communities and regions across the world

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and really trying to get their stories out
and amplify as much as possible.

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♪♪

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(Narration in French)

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Film creates conversation.

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And some of the conversations
that we're having in the world right now

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are about human rights and social justice,
freedom of choice, democracy itself.

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And our opening and closing films
both deepen those conversations

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and keep them going.

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(Come on. Poisoned? I don't believe it.)

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(It's like he's back.

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This is Alex saying...)

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(If you want to kill someone, just shoot him. Jesus Christ.) 

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We're opening the festival with Daniel Roher's"Navalny" 
about Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader in Russia,

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who was poisoned by Putin and survived to
tell the tale and then return to Russia.

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And just this last week was sentenced
to an additional nine years in prison

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for standing up for democracy

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and anti-authoritarianism 
in the country he loves.

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And then our closing film
is Phyllis Nagy's "Call Jane"

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about the Jane Collective,
which is a true-life

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abortion provider
collective in Chicago in the '60s.

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This is a fictionalized version
starring Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver

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and many, many others about a woman
who needs an abortion before it's legal

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and is able to find the Janes
and the changes

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that that has within her world
and her marriage and her friendships.

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So we have our culinary cinema

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returns this year.

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(Japanese being spoken)

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(I'm running )

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Indigenous is back with a terrific four

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feature films and a short film program.

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(It's in your blood.)

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(Type two diabetes is manageable
with proper care.

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Her mother had it.)
(For a second I thought you died) 

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(Do I look sick to you?)

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We have our WTF,

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which is weird, terrifying and fantastic.

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(screeching tires)

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We're also getting African pictures.

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(On the beds.) 

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(foreign language spoken)

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(Spanish spoken)

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[BETH BARRETT] 
Films from Ibero-America...

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some really just incredible journeys
around the world.

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One of the amazing films that we have

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is called "The Territory."
It's from Alex Prince.

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He worked with an indigenous tribe
within the jungles of Brazil.

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And the tribe itself acted
as the producing partners.

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And a lot of the cinematography was shot
by this Brazilian indigenous tribe.

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(Persian dialogue)

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There's a terrific
Iranian film called "Hit

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the Road," which is a road movie.

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So it's traveling through
all of the different parts of Iran,

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which is spectacular to watch.

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(jubulent shouting)

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One of the ones the most excited
about sharing with audiences

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is "Daughter of a Lost
Bird," Brooke Pipeon Swaney's film

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about Kendra Potter from the Lummi Nation,
who was adopted out to a white family

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as a baby and growing up
and finding her birth mother.

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(Hi, April.

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This is Kendra Hodder,
your birth daughter.

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I don't know if leaving a voicemail
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In really investigating those feelings

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that come up about, you know,
what does being Native today look like

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and how do you merge
those two parts of yourself?

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(Don't be ashamed who you are now.

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Your ancestors are here.

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They like you here.) 

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We definitely have some really amazing
coming of age stories

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like Cooper Raiffs "Cha Cha Real Smooth,"
which won the audience award at Sundance.

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A little aimless early 20 something
who becomes a bar mitzvah deejay.

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Very funny, funny, amazing movie.

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We've got "Day by Day,"
which is the new comedy film

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from Felix Herngren,
who did the "100 Year Old Man

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Who Climbed Out the Window
and Disappeared."

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And this, again, stars five senior
citizens on a road trip across Europe.

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You got "The Pez Outlaw,"
which just won an award at South

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by Southwest about a an actual Pez
dispenser

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smuggler who smuggled in Pez dispensers
from Eastern Europe.

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It's a terrific tale and very, very funny.

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There is a certain amount of

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energy that comes with being together
in a cinema.

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You know, jokes are funnier.

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Jump scares are scarier.

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Creepy things are creepier.

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There's a there's an ability of humans

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to ignore nuance.

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When you're sitting at home,
when you're in the cinema,

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the nuances are able to build and to grow
and to provide

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a complete experience.

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It's the levels of accessibility

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that we're able to provide
by having a hybrid festival is amazing.

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We know that there are people that are
just not able to get to the cinemas

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or that may not feel safe quite yet.

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And to be able to provide access
to these stories

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and to have the experience
that their friends are having

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in the cinemas and be able to
talk about it is incredible.

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(And that one was for the title.)

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(Golf? Golf?)

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(I'm going to have a crack
at the British Open.)

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I hope that people approach
surf and approach the festival

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with an open mind and an open heart
because film creates empathy.

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And I hope that people meet
someone new and learn about something new.

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Our entertainers give a small film
a chance because it's often

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those films that you didn't expect
that change your world.

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♪♪

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[NANCY GUPPY] The Seattle International Film
Festival runs April 14th

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through the 24th at multiple Northwest
theaters and online.

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The festival schedule, plus ticket and pass
information, is at... 

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siff.net/festival

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♪♪

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Catch Art Zone Friday nights at 8 p.m.

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and anytime online
at seattlechannel.org/artzone