Look Out For the Nest at the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival!
Chicken & Egg-supported filmmakers Julia Bacha, Alexandria Bombach, Christina King and Elizabeth Castle, Amy Ziering, Lorena Luciano, Laura Nix, and Chicken & Egg Pictures Board of Directors member, Alexandra Shiva, will all have documentary features at the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival!
The 44th annual event will take place May 17th-June 10th. Tickets are on sale now.
Warrior Women, by Christina D. King and Elizabeth Castle (2017 Diversity Fellows Initiative)
The women of the American Indian Movement fight from a vulnerable place only matriarchs can understand—it is a battle for their children and the culture they hope to preserve for them. Warrior Women chronicles the struggle of Madonna Thunder Hawk and Marcy Gilbert, a Lakota mother and daughter whose fight for indigenous rights started in the 1970s and continues today at Standing Rock.
Through archival footage, verité, and video art, we experience Thunder Hawk’s dedication to Red Power and come to understand that activism is necessary for the very survival and success of Native culture and values for the next generation.
Warrior Women will have its US premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Showtimes:
Monday, May 21 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, May 26 at 6:30 PM
Sunday, May 27 at 1:00 PM
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It Will Be Chaos, directed by Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo
Life in Southern Italy is thrown into a tailspin when refugees arrive by the thousands and the locals are left to fend for themselves. Eritrean survivor Aregai, trapped in the Italian faltering immigration system, goes underground to reach Northern Europe. Through his journey, intercut with the road trip to Germany of a Syrian family, the clash between the newcomers and the locals escalates in real time.
It Will Be Chaos will have its US premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Showtimes:
Saturday, May 26 at 8:30 PM
Monday, May 28 at 12:30 PM
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Note: Chicken & Egg Pictures has not directly supported the following films but has supported the filmmakers and directors in the past.
Naila and the Uprising, by Julia Bacha*
Weaving together interviews, news footage, and expressive animation, award-winning documentarian Julia Bacha inventively chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh, who in the late 1980s joined a clandestine movement of Palestinian women who played a pivotal role in the nonviolent uprising known as the First Intifada.
Showtimes:
Thursday, June 7 at 6:30 PM
Sunday, June 10 at 12:00 PM
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* Chicken & Egg Pictures did not support Naila and the Uprising but supported director Julia Bacha’s film, Budrus
On Her Shoulders, by Alexandria Bombach (2018 SXSW LUNA / Chicken & Egg Pictures Award recipient)
This empowering documentary presents 23-year-old Nadia Murad, a Yazidi genocide survivor determined to tell the world her story. Determined advocate and reluctant celebrity, she becomes the voice of her people and their best hope to spur the world to action.
Showtimes:
Tuesday, May 22 at 6:00 PM
Wednesday, May 23 at 3:30 PM
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The Bleeding Edge, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering*
Investigative filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering present a searing exposé of modern medical devices, a billion dollar industry whose technological advancements have lead to unparalleled innovations, yet is rife with lax regulations, corporate cover-ups, and profit driven incentives that have lead to deadly risks for unsuspecting patients.
Showtimes:
Monday, May 28 at 1:00 PM
Wednesday, May 30 at 9:15 PM
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* Chicken & Egg Pictures did not supportThe Bleeding Edge but supported co-director Amy Ziering’s film, The Invisible War
Inventing Tomorrow, by Laura Nix (2018 Breakthrough Filmmaker Award recipient)*
Meet the passionate teen innovators from around the globe who dedicate their blood, sweat, and Bunsen burners to craft cutting-edge solutions to the world’s environmental threats and present their findings at the world’s largest high school science competition, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
Showtimes:
Friday, May 18 at 4:30 PM
Friday, June 1 at 6:30 PM
Saturday, June 2 at 11:30 AM
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* Chicken & Egg Pictures did not support Inventing Tomorrow but supports director Laura Nix through our 2018 Breakthrough Filmmaker Award program.
This Is Home, by Alexandra Shiva (Chicken & Egg Pictures Board of Directors)*
Alexandra Shiva’s stirring, empathetic documentary chronicles the travails of four Syrian refugee families as they arrive in Baltimore with just eight months’ time allowed to find jobs, learn English, and adapt to life in the U.S. when the sudden 2017 travel ban imposed by the Trump administration further complicates their situation.
Showtimes:
Wednesday, May 30 at 6:00 PM
Thursday, May 31 at 3:30 PM
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*Chicken & Egg Pictures did not support This is Home but director Alexandra Shiva is a member of the Chicken & Egg Pictures Board of Directors.
For a list of all films, screening dates and times, check out the Seattle International Film Festival Guide here.
Post by 2018 Spring Programs Intern Dinayuri Rodriguez.