The underway Seattle Film Festival is showcasing two Iranian short films in its nine day run kicked off on May 1.
Saman Hosseinpuor’s short One-Nil (1-0) was screened at Jet City Theater On May 2 and Ali Akbarzadeh’s Killswitch (Kelid e Koshtar) is scheduled to be screened at Lucid Lounge on Friday May 8th, 8pm.
Killswitch (Kelid e Koshtar) is an award winning documentary film about the battle to control the Internet. The movie frames the story of two young hacktivists, Aaron Swartz & Edward Snowden, who symbolize the disruptive and dynamic nature of the Internet. Killswitch is a collaboration between director Ali Akbarzadeh, producer Jeffrey Horn, writer Chris Dollar and Akorn Entertainment.
Iranian one-minute film One-Nil (1-0) narrates the story of a boy who gets so excited watching soccer that he forgets he is in the middle of a haircut.
Hosseinpuor has made the film being sponsored by the Art Bureau of Sanandaj. The Art Bureau is the cultural leg of Iran's Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IDO).
Seattle True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) was started in 2005 by a group of filmmakers whose feature film Swamper was rejected by the Seattle International Film Festival. STIFF was modeled after the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City UT as a way to champion local and true independent films that they felt were being left out of the local film program. It is dedicated to the exhibition of independent, experimental and zero budget films.
On average, STIFF receives over 600 submissions per year and screens over 125 films as part of the nine day event.
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