We're glad you found us! Take a look around this site; we hope that you will find all sorts of interesting content to enhance your SIFF (and Bumbershoot) experience.

The Seattle International Film Festival has always been on the cutting edge of technology. Did you know we were the first to broadcast a film over the Internet - way back in 1995? Party Girl starring Parker Posey was our first SIFFcast, and the first feature film ever broadcast over the Internet anywhere. We have come a long way, baby...

We have offered all of the SIFF and Bumbershoot short filmmakers the opportunity to play their films here; we are going to be interviewing visiting directors, actors, and many of you standing in lines or coming out of a theatre. Missed a Festival Forum? You might just see it here.

And don't forget to participate! Want to put your two cents in about a film? Add your own comments to the site (just look for the "Comments" link on every post)!

This program was made possible by the generous support of IrisInk, The MAC Store, Modern Digital, Digital Forest, The Seattle Channel and the students of the Film and Video program at Seattle Central Community College.

Selections from the 1 Reel Film Festival - Highlighted short films from the 1 Reel Film Festival will be appearing here through the end of September. The 1 Reel Film Festival is part of Bumbershoot, Seattle’s Music and Arts Festival, running September 2 - 4 at the Seattle Center - all films screen in McCaw Hall. SIFFcast films include Winner Take Steve, the new short by Napoleon Dynamite creator Jared Hess and Bump, Tick, Scratch, a short documentary with DJ John Pugh who creates beats using scissors and razors on records.   More films coming soon!

This site is comprised of audio and video content. The audio content is provided as 192 Kbps MP3 files (ready to be listened to, added to iTunes, put on your iPod or burned to a CD). The video content is offered in four different file formats: high quality, low quality, iPod and streaming. To view the high quality and streaming video files, you must have a fast internet connection (cable or DSL) and QuickTime 7 (free; download for Windows 2000/XP or Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later). The low quality files, which are smaller and more suitable for slower connections, require QuickTime 5 or later. The iPod video files require iTunes 6 (free; download for Windows 2000/XP or Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later) and a video iPod. You can also subscribe to the content of this site through an RSS reader by using the orange "RSS" button at the top of this page (you can read about the RSS protocol here). If you have any technical questions or have spotted an error, please e-mail siffcast@seattlefilm.org.