Seattle Queer Film Festival
Seattle Queer & Trans Film Festival is an annual film festival in Seattle, produced by the nonprofit Three Dollar Bill Cinema. It is the largest LGBTQIA+ film festival in the Pacific Northwest, showing films at the Broadway Performance Hall and Erickson Theater.
For the 2024 event, the festival offered a fully hybrid experience where participants could attend in-person, or stream the content virtually. For the 2025 event, the festival announced a partnership with Scarecrow Video that allowed for the inclusion of content that highlighted local films and filmmakers.
History
The Seattle Queer Film Festival was founded in 1996 as the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. In 2016, it was renamed TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival. In 2019, the word "Twist" was dropped and the festival became the Seattle Queer Film Festival.TRANSlations: Seattle Trans Film Festival was launched in 2006 as one of few film festivals focused on films by and about transgender people. The festival began as part of the Gender Odyssey Conference but grew into an independent festival.
In April 2025, it was announced that the Seattle Queer Film Festival and TRANSlations: Seattle Trans Film Festival were merging to become the Seattle Queer & Trans Film Festival.