Join us for our 2024 Everett Film Festival!

Schedule of Events:

12:30 pm: Doors Open

1:05 pm: Daughters of the Forest
Directed By Samantha Grant

Documentary Feature: An intimate, powerful story of a small group of girls in one of the most remote forests left on earth who are radically transformed by attending a revolutionary high school where they learn to protect the threatened forest and build a better future for themselves. 2015

2:00 pm: Treeline: The Secret Life of Trees
Directed By Jordan Manley

Documentary Short: Follow a group of skiers, snowboarders, scientists and healers to the birch forests of Japan, the red cedars of British Columbia and the bristlecones of Nevada, as they explore an ancient story written in rings. 2020

2:40 pm: How Trees Talk
Directed By Suzanne Simard

Documentary Short: “A forest is much more than what you see” says ecologist Suzanne Simard.  Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led her to an astonishing discovery – trees talk often and over vast distances. Learn how trees communicate. 2017

2:44 pm: Q&A Presentation from Black Forest Mushrooms

3:00 pm: First Break and Raffle

3:20 pm: Blue Heron Slough
Directed By Port of Everett and Kate Anderson

Documentary Short: Decades in the making, former farmland is set to return to fish habitat in the Snohomish watershed. 2022

3:23 pm: I Will be a Farmer
Directed By Tara Luckie

Documentary Short: Sometimes childhood dreams become adult goals. In this case, why stay in the city when one’s heart is tied to the land? 2022

3:26 pm: A River Dream
Directed By Monica Van Der Vieren

Documentary Short: Why a woman from the mid-west now lives the dream on the shores of the Snohomish River, and how the dream remains. 2022

3:30 pm: Q&A Presentation

Tara Luckie and Monica Van Der Vieren share their experiences living in the Snohomish River Basin.

3:50 pm: Lunchbox
Directed By Anne Hu

Narrative Short: As a Taiwanese American woman prepares lunches from her childhood, she struggles to forgive herself for pushing away her immigrant mother. 2022.

4:05 pm: Cherry
Directed By Sophie Galibert

Prize Winning Narrative Dramedy Feature: A driftless and uncommitted 25-year-old living in Los Angeles discovers she has only 24 hours to make one of the most consequential decisions of her life. 2022

5:20 pm: Dinner Break and Raffle

6:20 pm: Barricade
Directed By Alice Johannessen

Narrative Short: After experiencing a traumatic event on her school bus, Aleena bottles up her anger until a chance connection triggers a small act of rebellion. 2022

6:30 pm: You Hurt My Feelings
Directed By Nicole Holofcener

Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars in a sharply observed comedy about a novelist whose longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband give his honest reaction to her latest book. A film about trust, lies, and the things we say to the people we love. 2023

8:15 pm: Your Name in Cellulite
Directed By Gail Noonan

Short Comedy Animation: A wickedly funny satire about the disparity between a woman’s natural beauty and the ideal promoted by the advertising popular culture. 1995

8:30 pm: Raffle and Closing

Date: April 6, 2024

Location:

Everett Performing Arts Center,
2710 Wetmore Avenue,
Everett, WA 98201.

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