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Steven Soderbergh announced he’s filming a new movie here in May:
Kimi, starring Zoë Kravitz as an agoraphobic tech worker. (Wanna be an extra? Submit your selfie.)
But Washington state’s comparatively measly film incentive program (capped at $3.5 million per year) has made it difficult to bring in big budget movies and the associated work for local crews. See: all those movies and TV shows “set in Seattle” but filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, or in Portland, Oregon.
This week, King County Executive Dow Constantine revealed an amenity he hopes will help amp up local filmmaking:
a new sound stage facility on Harbor Island in the 117,000-square-foot industrial space that was formerly the Fisher Flour Mill. “We transformed this vast warehouse into a creative space with stages, sets and shops to put hundreds of people to work in good, union jobs making films right here in King County,” Constantine said in a statement. “This is about making a smart public invest
This absurdist comedy from Washington-born director J. Rick Castañeda is precisely the sort of lo-fi oddball indie you expect to find at a film fest. Diego (Eli Vargas), a young guy sleeping in his car, takes a job at Data Mart, a cartoonishly bland office. People type; people file; people sneak naps in their endless rows of cubicles in the wan light. Then Diego and his friend June (Greena Park) discover that behind the office Coke machine, a door opens after hours and people filter into watch underground folder filing competitions. June, it turns out, is a virtuoso folder filer. The movie, shot in Yakima, belongs to the weirdo work comedy lineage. You ll find traces of