NWFF offers year-round programming sure to delight and dazzle family audiences. Quarterly collections of films include award-winning features and shorts, historically important children's films, director retrospectives, documentaries from around the globe, interdisciplinary programs including performances of new scores for classic silent films, and exciting hands-on filmmaking workshops.
AUGUST 31 – NOVEMBER 23, EVERY SUNDAY AT NOON
The Sprocket Society’s Secret Sunday Matinee
This fall, NWFF revives the classic weekend matinee! Every Sunday afternoon, thrill to a new cliffhanger episode of Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe, perhaps the greatest movie serial ever made! PLUS a different classic (or just fun) feature every week! What features? That’s the secret! But count on high adventure, monsters, distant worlds, and special surprises! PLUS cartoons and shorts! What better way to spend a rainy autumn Sunday? One–day and series memberships in the Secret Matinee Club are available.
Series passes $25/NWFF members, $65/general, $130/Family pass (good for 4 people)
All films are suitable for ages 8 and up, with the exception of our October 19 program, which is for ages 10 and up. Please contact ryan@nwfilmforum.org if you have specific questions.
NOVEMBER 1 – 2, SATURDAY & SUNDAY AT 5PM
Jazz Animation From The Hubley Studio
(John and Faith Hubley, USA, 1957–75, 35mm, 70 min)
Beginning in the 1950s, the wonderfully imaginative and innovative films of independent animators John and Faith Hubley broke from traditional styles of animation and addressed important issues with intelligence, passion and humor. Their poetic sensibility and whimsical, impressionistic visual style (more reminiscent of painters Klee and Miro than Disney) lent itself perfectly to jazz music. "There’s something about jazz’s bending of time within a rigid format that also applies to animation," Faith Hubley once observed. "That’s why they work so well together. It’s a marriage made in heaven." This special program highlights the best of the Hubleys’ jazz films, featuring their collaborations with such musicians and composers as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Quincy Jones, Benny Carter, and others. Appropriate for all ages.
