Designed to celebrate both Sundance and Slamdance Filmmakers and promote Washington State as a vibrant filmmaking destination, the Seattle Party has become a highly anticipated event for Park City regulars.  MTV and Sub Pop Records partnered with Washington Filmworks and the Seattle Office of Film + Music to host the event on Sunday, January 24th at the Star Bar on Main Street in Park City.  This year's event celebrated the highly anticipated MTV release of Lynn Shelton's "$5 Cover: Seattle." This project was  one of the 38 projects which received funding assistance through the Washington Filmworks incentive program and adds to the overall estimated $42.2M of direct spending in Washington State.  

The event featured Sub Pop Records' Beach House and subsidiary label Hardly Art's The Moondoggies as well as KEXP DJ Darek Mazzone spinning before and between sets and a live performances by former Harvey Danger front man Sean Nelson.  

Check out the Seattle P.I's coverage of the event here

Special Focus: Washington State
 
For the fifth consecutive year, the Washington state film industry hosted a series of high profile filmmaker dinners at the Sundance Film Festival.  These dinners celebrate the best of film, food and wine in Washington State and provide the perfect environment for leaders from our local film community to pitch filmmakers on shooting their next feature film, commercial or television project in the state of Washington.  

This year the two dinners were co-hosted by Executive Director Amy Lillard Dee along with James Keblas from the Seattle Office of Film + Music, with a lively conversation moderated by our very own Warren Etheredege from The Warren Report.  A variety of industry leaders such as director Whit Stillman ("The Last Days of Disco"), producer Jay Stern ("Rush Hour 1, 2, & 3") and actor Rachel Dratch from Saturday Night Live, as well as, some of the industries brightest rising stars like Brad and Todd Barnes the co-directors of "Homewrecker" and Melanie Miller from Fishbowl Films attended the dinners. Guests were treated to a five-course meal expertly prepared by sous chef Benjamin Closson from W Seattle's signature restaurant Earth & Ocean. And each course was paired with an award winning wine provided by Anna Schafer from aMaurice Cellars located in Walla, Walla. 

Washington Filmworks launches a new and expanded website and logo
   
This new site was designed to empower filmmakers by offering accessible online information and resources. Some of the new features include:

Interactive Location Map
Permit, Location, and Government Contacts
FAQ page
Local Resources
Green Filming Guide
Link to the crew database: NWfilm.com
News and Information

Take a minute to look at the new and exciting features

Washington Filmworks welcomes Julie Daman as the new Accounting Manager
 
Washington Filmworks is pleased to announce that Julie Daman has joined the organization as our full time Accounting Manager.  Julie will be responsible for day-to-day fiscal operations and will oversee the audit and review process for all qualified motion picture productions.

After graduating with honors from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Julie began her film industry career working in the accounting department on "Spin City," the episodic series starring Michael J. Fox  When the series was on hiatus, Julie gained practical production and art department knowledge by working in various capacities on high profile shows such as "My Giant," "Isn't She Great and "28 Days."  Julie relocated to Los Angeles when "Spin City" made the jump to Hollywood, filing her "downtime" by working on other episodic series such as DAG, The Ellen Show and Scrubs as well as a number of network television pilots.  In 2005 she began her own New Media production company where she created a weekly podcast, an award winning mini-sitcom web series, as well as produced work for clients such as TBS.com, Spike Television and independent music artists.  Just prior to moving to the Seattle, Julie worked as the lead accountant on the independently produced feature film "Ms. January."  

Welcome, Julie.

Mark your calendars

Washington Filmworks is hosting the 2nd Annual Oscar Party, Sunday March 2nd at Spitfire in Belltown!  $10 cover charge to be put toward Oscar pool. Winner of the Oscar pool gets to donate entire pool to a local non-profit film organization of their choice.

WE'VE MOVED!

We are still located in the Seattle Tower (3rd and University) but have moved two floors up to Suite 1709.  Our new address is:

1218 Third Ave, Suite 1709
Seattle, WA 98101
www.WashingtonFilmworks.org
206.264.0667