{"id":2366168,"date":"2026-04-09T22:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2366168"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:39:30","slug":"siff-announces-closing-night-film-and-no-closing-night-party-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/siff-announces-closing-night-film-and-no-closing-night-party-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"SIFF announces closing night film \u2014 and no closing night party | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Seattle International Film Festival will forgo a longtime tradition this year.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.siff.net\/festival\">52nd annual festival<\/a>, which begins May 7, will not have a closing-night party \u2014 the first time that Artistic Director Beth Barrett can remember SIFF going without such an event. This comes in a year during which SIFF has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/siff-announces-more-layoffs-organizational-restructuring\/\">struggled financially<\/a> and faced the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/seattle-movie-theater-update-siff-will-end-lease-at-historic-egyptian\/\">loss of a longtime venue<\/a>, the SIFF Cinema Egyptian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Budgetary concerns really didn\u2019t allow us to invest in a closing night party this year,&#8221; Barrett said in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n<p>The customary opening-night party, however, will take place May 7, following <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/siff-2026-festival-opening-night-film-is-from-boots-riley\/\">a screening of &#8220;I Love Boosters,&#8221;<\/a> with director Boots Riley in attendance at the Paramount Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>And the closing-night film \u2014 the dark comedy &#8220;The Invite&#8221; \u2014 will be screened May 17 at SIFF Cinema Downtown, with director\/star Olivia Wilde in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Other SIFF traditions remain, including the audience-voted Golden Space Needle awards. Other festival venues this year include the SIFF Uptown, SIFF Film Center and the PACCAR Imax Theater at Pacific Science Center.<\/p>\n<p>SIFF passes and six-ticket packages are currently on sale; individual tickets go on sale April 15 to SIFF members and April 16 to the general public.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle International Film Festival will forgo a longtime tradition this year. The 52nd annual festival, which begins May 7, will not have a closing-night party \u2014 the first time that Artistic Director Beth Barrett can remember SIFF going without such an event. This comes in a year during which SIFF has struggled financially and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2366169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741],"class_list":["post-2366168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SIFF-announces-closing-night-film-\u2014-and-no-closing-night.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366170,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366168\/revisions\/2366170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}