Festival FAQs

The 10th annual Seattle Asian American Film Festival will take place (almost) entirely online March 3-13, 2022. All films will be available on-demand for the duration of the 11-day festival, while a few select features will have limited online tickets, and a number of limited in-person and drive-in screenings. We have 13 feature-length films and over 90 short films for a total of 25 programs. Most programs will be followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with director(s), cast or crew.

 

All films are available to watch throughout the United States, except select film programs are geo-blocked to allow access only to viewers in Washington state, the Pacific Northwest (WA, OR, ID) or the US West Coast states (WA, OR, CA). Geo-block restrictions are listed on each individual film program’s webpage.

Eventive Virtual Festival is an online streaming platform that hosts all of our films. We encourage you to visit Eventive for Attendees for technical FAQs and video guides. They also have technical support available 9am to 9pm 7 days a weeks to answer your questions through Live Chat. In order to purchase tickets or passes to watch our virtual screenings and livestream events, you will need to create an Eventive account.

  • All tickets can be purchased online at bit.ly/SAAFF2022. 
  • Buy a Full Festival Pass or a Shorts Pass online at bit.ly/SAAFFpass22. 
  • We also have a Festival 6-Pack deal that gets you six tickets for the price of 5. These tickets are valid for online film programs with general tickets, except Opening Night Party Livestream.
  • Tickets for Opening Night Party Livestream and In-Person screenings need to be purchased separately.
  • Note: All tickets and pass sales are available online only. No refunds or exchanges. Service fees apply to all online orders. Films are not rated for content and viewer discretion is advised.

Online Screenings Ticket Prices:

  • General Ticket: $10
  • Discounted Ticket: $8
    For those who self-identify as a(n) student, senior, artist, disability, and/or un(der)waged person
  • Household Ticket: $20
    If you’re watching with your friends and/or family, you can support us by purchasing the household ticket.
  • Festival 6-Pack: $50
    Six tickets for the price of five, good for all film programs online, except for tickets to the Opening Night Party Livestream. After purchasing your ticket pack, you will be able to select your films. Ticket pack is not redeemable for any in-person screenings.
  • Shorts Pass: $80
    Access to all 12 online shorts programs at the festival. 
  • Full Festival Pass: $120
    Access to all online film programs at the festival, except the Opening Night Party Livestream. 

There will also be two FREE by donation shorts programs. Limited tickets will be available on a first come, first serve basis. Free (By Donation) programs include:

In-Person Screenings Ticket Prices:

  • Drive-in Screenings Ticket: $35 per vehicle
  • NWFF General Ticket: $13 (NWFF membership discount does not apply)
  • NWFF Discounted Ticket: $10 (NWFF membership discount does not apply)
    For those who self-identify as a(n) student, senior, artist, disability, and/or un(der)waged person

Once you’ve bought a pass to the festival, make sure you are logged in on the Eventive platform with the same email address used to purchase your pass. Head over to the virtual catalog and click on the film program you want to watch. All festival passes are only allotted 1 ticket per program. If the program is available, you will see an “Unlock Now” button. Select the general ticket and you have now redeemed a ticket to that film program and can start watching!

Some film programs have limited viewing windows, in which you can either choose to “pre-order now” to reserve a ticket to the film program or wait until it becomes available to unlock it. We advise audience members to browse through the catalog and reserve a ticket to all film programs of interest ahead of time, as some screenings are limited and can sell out. Once you’ve reserved tickets to multiple programs, you can also find them in  “My Tickets”.

All films are available for viewing online from March 3 12:00am PST opening day to March 13 11:59pm PDT across the United States unless they are geo-blocked. Once you start watching a film program, you will have 48 hours to finish it (even if you click play on March 13). 

Please note that on Sunday, March 13, 2022 Daylight Savings Time will begin at 2:00am PT so there will be one less hour to view films that day.

Yes. Similar to in-theater screenings, there are capacity limits established by film distributors and producers that we are obliged to adhere to, so get your tickets and/or passes early!

Most films are in English. There are subtitles for non-English segments in the films.

After you finish watching each film, there will be an option to rate the film from 1 to 5 (5 being the best) on the watch page directly under the video player as pictured below.


Voting will end at 11:59pm PDT on Tuesday, March 15, 2022.

We will announce the Festival and Jury Awards on Sunday, March 13, and the Audience Choice Awards on Friday, March 18, 2022.

Although we will not have any films playing in theaters, there will be four limited drive-in screenings of each Special Presentation feature film at the Stonehouse Cafe (Address: 9701 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118). 

Drive-in tickets are priced at $35 per car. Load in begins an hour prior to the screening start time. Restrooms are available on premises and food and beverages may be pre-ordered online.

Join us on March 3, 2022 at 7:00pm for our Opening Night Party Livestream at bit.ly/SAAFF2022Party.  We’ll be taking submissions of questions for your favorite artist at bit.ly/saaffON22 and select a few from the audience to ask our artists after their performances. 

Throughout the festival, feel free use the hashtag #SAAFF2022 and tag us at @SeattleAAFF on Facebook, Instagram and/or Twitter to share your festival-from-home experiences!

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Email questions to info@seattleaaff.org, or message us on Facebook or Instagram.