Brooke Swaney -- Daughter of a Lost Bird (2022)

Wu-Ching Chang -- My Grandmother Is An Egg (2022)

Vaishali Naik -- 7 Star Dinosaur Entertainment (2022)

Mathilde Bayle -- El Conquistador (2022)

MONA LISA GARCÍA -- Aquel Rostro (2022)

Jingjing Tian -- Mary Anne & Frank (2022)

Kuperberg Sisters -- Gentleman & Miss Lupino (2022)

Laura Vandervoort -- My Soul To Take (2022)

Cecilia Cornejo -- Ways of Being Home (2022)

Ashley Paige Brim -- The Goldfish (U.S.)

CASCADIA Directors | Faces of our Festival

CASCADIA Presents “Piedra Libre”

Six women perform ancestral dances. They move, weaving recollections of a dictatorship that is still folded into their biographies, their memory, and their bodies. CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival, along with Kuntz & Company, will screen the film “Piedra Libre” online for two weekends, Thursday through Sunday, Jan. 19-22 and Thursday through Sunday, Jan. 26-29. Tickets are $10 and are available here. Ticket buyers will have four days after purchase to view the film.

Now Accepting 2022

Script Studio Submissions

CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival will be open for submissions for its popular Script Studio workshop beginning November 20. Scripts should be in screenplay form and no longer than 20 pages. All narrative genres and film formats are acceptable including animation. Submissions should be sent via Film Freeway here by January 31, 2023. Writers will be notified of acceptance in February, 2023. More info here.

An LGBTQ Short Film Evening

CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival in partnership with the Whatcom Queer Film Society will host an evening of LBGTQ+ film shorts at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25 at The Blue Room (202 E. Holly St., B-ham). Doors open at 7 p.m. with a short program of women-directed, LGBTQ+-focused films starting at 7:30 p.m. and a discussion following the event. Elevator access is available. 21+ and older. CASCADIA requests guests wear masks except for when drinking. Tickets $15 and available here.

Our Mission

To present an annual international film festival showcasing films directed by women.
To provide educational opportunities relating to the viewing, making, and distribution of films.
To promote Bellingham, Whatcom County and the surrounding Pacific Northwest area as a destination for filmmakers and film enthusiasts.