What Seattletonians Are Saying

A roundup of comments and blog posts about our screenings in Seattle:

Already one of the bigger talkers among the many films being shown at SIFF this month, "Brownstones to Red Dirt" has raised $53,000 for Seattle-based Schools for Salone to build a new primary school. -- Humberto Martinez, Seattle PI, The Big Blog

This show had me laughing until I cried (wait until you meet Malik with his back up plans) and then I just plain cried. It was amazing to see an eleven year-old boy say that he feels like he's treated like dirt and then see children that sleep on dirt in the next scene. One of the most heart wrenching scenes involved the Sierra Leonians doing a reenactment of the war that tore their country apart and turned them into the orphans that they are. -- Arletta Gustafson, The Common Room

Children have a way of reminding us that interacting with other cultures will change our self-centric priorities. This film is a beautiful document of that. -- Dustin Kaspar, SIFF Programmer, 2010 Programmers' Picks