Come and celebrate our 20th Anniversary with a special FREE in-person co-screening event with Seattle Latino Film Festival Mt. Baker Meaningful Movies Group and Mt. Baker Community Club.

Event starts at 6 PM with Minute Mic. Ever wonder who’s in the room with you during an event? Well, no need to wonder at this event!  Take a minute or less to introduce yourself and/or your organization during Meet and Mingle.  Enjoy some light refreshments on us in honor of our 20th Anniversary. And it wouldn’t be a film festival event without picture opportunities on the Seattle Latino Film Festival Red carpet.

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We are fortunate to have REFLECTING RESILIENCE as our Opening Film by Director Lindy Boustedt. SHARE is a program where screenwriting and filmmaking are used as a redemptive tool for incarcerated communities around the State of Washington that might not otherwise have a voice. In this short film, we interviewed SHARE students at Echo Glen High School, a juvenile detention facility in King County, WA, what resilience looks like and means to them.

Our Feature Film will be TUPUNGATO – Empathy in Death. It follows Rafael Pease’s six-year obsession of visibilizing a threatened area. A winter expedition to the highest peak, Volcan Tupungato 21,555ft, evolves into a fight for conservation.

The team (Rafeal Pease, Jeremy Anderson, Erich Roepke and Joonas Mattila) approaches the mining company “DANGER” signs enroute to Tupungato, a 21,550 ft. Strato Volcano in the Central Andes, Chile

Jn hopes of creating a national park, containing 350,000acres in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, as well as a significant source of water for 40% of Chile’s population. Interviews with renowned scientists and activists unveil a web of corruption in the government and multinational corporations, stemming from imperial religion and a dictator’s constitution. This explosive film is set against the backdrop of historic protests, as the people of Chile rise up for social and environmental rights.

Join us for a Q&A Discussion with our filmmakers:

Lindy Boustedt is an award-winning writer, director, and producer who specializes in character-driven stories. As co-owner of First Sight Productions, she’s spent the past 19 years working on everything from shorts, features and serialized productions, to branded content, podcasts and VR/AR media. Her narrative work has over 16M views on YouTube.

In addition to being the founder/lead instructor of the SHARE screenwriting program for incarcerated women and youth, she also teaches screenwriting at Seattle Central College.

Rafael Pease is a 29 year old Chilean/Cuban filmmaker who uses his backgrounds in environmental sciences, socio-environmental rights activism and career as a professional snowboard mountaineer to create forward thinking documentaries. With the goal to educate, inspire and create change in every documentary, while giving a voice to marginalized communities and accurately depicting the science and importance of threatened areas and people.

Tickets: In spirit of Meaningful Movies Project’s, no cost screening, the Seattle Latino Film Festival is offering the film at no cost to all Meaningful Movie participants. We gratefully accept donations to help offset the costs of presenting the films we screen. To click here to register.

This event is made possible by the following sponsors:

Founded in 2009 by Jorge Enrique Gonzalez Pacheco, the Seattle Latino Film Festival (SLFF) is the Northwest’s unique celebration of Latino artists and filmmakers. Operating on a modest budget, SLFF’s passionate team showcases diverse films in October, coinciding with National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Our films explore “Latinidad” through various genres, celebrating daily experiences like music, literature, dance, and painting. We’ve cultivated partnerships with key organizations, attracting over 1000 attendees annually since 2009.

Established in 1909, the Mount Baker Community Club is dedicated to providing a gathering space for neighbors to come together, get to know each other and build community. We believe strong connections among neighbors are key to our common humanity; our mission is to be the heart of the Mount Baker community. The Community Club hosts events and celebrations all year long!

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