{"id":905,"date":"2009-08-12T14:25:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T21:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/northwest_film_forum_cuts_staf\/"},"modified":"2009-08-12T14:25:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T21:25:35","slug":"northwest_film_forum_cuts_staf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/northwest_film_forum_cuts_staf.html","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Film Forum cuts staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

What the Los Angeles County Art Museum’s threatened film program<\/a> is to LA, the Northwest Film Forum<\/a> is to Seattle. <\/p>\n

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\nWith a 30 percent drop in income, on July 30 NFF asked everybody with a
\nstake to send $10 by Aug. 15. Sub Pop<\/a> responded with a matching grant
\nof $10,000. To date, NFF has raised more than $33,000.<\/p>\n

NFF was looking at a $70,000 deficit for the current year (on a $700,000 annual budget) and hopes to close with less than $35,000 in the minus column.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, NFF has laid off its
\nexcellent managing director Susie Purves, whose background covers a wide variety of
\nSeattle’s arts institutions, including as curator and\/or director of the
\nCenter on Contemporary Art, Kirkland Arts Center, On the Boards and the
\nSeattle International Children’s Festival.<\/p>\n

Two more staff have been cut from full time to 24 hours a week. Again, an arts institution will try to do what it does with less money and important staff missing. Director Lyall said he hopes to be full strength by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

What NFF does, from its Web site:<\/p>\n

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Screening over 200 independently made and classic films annually,
\noffering a year-round schedule of filmmaking classes for all ages, and
\nsupporting filmmakers at all stages of their careers, the Northwest
\nFilm Forum is Seattle’s premier film arts organization. <\/p>\n

Founded in 1995 by filmmakers Jamie Hook and Deborah
\nGirdwood, NWFF now operates the region’s first and only non-profit
\ncenter for the film arts. NWFF programs a true cinematheque, embracing
\nfilm production as well as film exhibition, with two cinemas, film
\nproduction and post-production facilities and equipment, educational
\nworkshop space, filmmaker offices, a film vault containing over 1,000
\ntitles and a filmmaking library in its space at 1515 12th Ave. <\/p>\n

Nearly 1000 members strong, NWFF aides 250 filmmakers in the
\nproduction of nearly 80 films, and offers more than 60 workshops
\nannually. Our Start-to-Finish grant program partners with a local
\nartist to produce a feature length film, using both for and non-profit
\nfunding, a model unique in the non-profit world. The most recent film,
\nThe Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, premiered at the 2009
\nSundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Our cinemas showcase the best in American and international
\ncinema, 360 days a year, as well as quarterly world premiere live
\nperformances. Recent highlights include: a 27 film retrospective of
\nJapanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu that included ten commissions for live
\nmusical scores; Children’s Film Festival Seattle; a lecture and class
\nby designer\/filmmaker Pablo Ferro; a retrospective of the documentaries
\nof Ross McElwee that included a visit from the artist; and the
\nstrongest music film programming in the nation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What the Los Angeles County Art Museum’s threatened film program is to LA, the Northwest Film Forum is to Seattle.  With a 30 percent drop in income, on July 30 NFF asked everybody with a stake to send $10 by Aug. 15. Sub Pop responded with a matching grant of $10,000. To date, NFF has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}