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Courtney Sheehan Takes Over as Northwest Film Forum’s Program Director

The internationally traveled programmer begins her slate in February.

Seth Sommerfeld
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Courtney Sheehan, the new program director of NWFF

The Northwest Film Forum has announced its new program director, and it appears that she’ll bring a little international flavor to the position. Courtney Sheehan will take over programming at NWFF in November and her cinematic lineup will begin next February.

Sheehan is the co-founder and creative director of Cine Migratorio, a migration themed film festival held in Santander, Spain, and has also guest programmed film around the world—Croatia, India, Netherlands, etc.—after earning the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for international research. She also has experience with NWFF, having worked as an intern for Children’s Film Festival Seattle in 2009.

Former program director Adam Sekler announced in May he’d be leaving NWFF after being on the job since 2005. We already conducted an exit interview with Sekuler as part of our Fall Arts Preview, and he’s programmed the film slate through the end of January.




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Seth Sommerfeld
Seth Sommerfeld
Assistant Editor (Arts) Seth Sommerfeld runs the arts department at Seattle Met, crafting the magazine's On the Town section, editing the Culture Fiend blog, and contributing to reader service features such as “The Ultimate Seahawks Guide” and the front-of-the-book department, Mudroom. Seth has written about music and culture for Rolling Stone, Spin, Pacific Northwest Inlander, Charleston Post and Courier, Syracuse Post-Standard, and Billings Gazette. He also extensively covered the NBA Draft for years for Fox Sports and NBADraft.net, and was published as part of Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology. Originally from Billings, Montana, Seth first lived in Washington while earning an undergraduate degree in journalism and broadcasting at Gonzaga University. He followed up those studies at Syracuse University, where he earned a master’s degree in arts journalism.