SIFF 2021: All the Northwest Connections Films, Reviewed
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All Those Small Things, film shot in Spokane, debuts at Seattle Film Festival
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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