Local Sightings Film Festival returned to Seattle for its 28th year from Sept. 19-28 at Northwest Film Forum. I was able to catch the second weekend of the festival and view three feature-length documentaries from Pacific Northwest filmmakers as well as the All in My Head horror shorts. A tendency in the weekend’s selections was examining large-scale social issues from a personal place, following people enmeshed in the heart of these issues. I noticed a clear thread in several of the films I saw: They contained powerful interrogations of masculinity.
On September 15, I sat down with Seattleite singer and musician Tavia Rhodes. During that fleeting time, I got to experience Rhode’s creative processes, her muses, relationship with music, as well as her extensive journey to release her first album, Her Say, in October this year.
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