The Festival

The Seattle South Asian Film Festival (SSAFF) is a 3-day film festival produced by Tasveer for people to discover, experience, and enjoy through a range of South Asian films, workshops, and forums. SSAFF creates a lively, stimulating, and focused environment for conversation, education, and exploration of issues that face South Asia and its Diaspora. 

The name change, from Independent South-Asian Film Festival to Seattle South-Asian Film Festival, was made to accommodate the new kind of "parallel" cinema which crosses boundaries between mainstream and independent movies -- one that appeals to the broader audience even as it deals with topics not usually addressed by big production houses while making ourselves a Seattle main stay.