SIFF Moving To Seattle Center Venue

It looks like the Seattle International Film Festival is going to pull back a bit from its traditional venues around town and get its very own digs at the Seattle Center. McCaw Hall is being turned into "the best screening facility in the Northwest and one of the top facilities on the West Coast."

SIFF is going to spend $350,000 to turn the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall into a theater that will operate all year - $150,000 of that cash is coming from the city and the rest SIFF is raising privately. The Nesholm lecture hall is the smaller of the two at McCaw, and it's already pretty high-tech. What exactly has to be added to a state-of-the-art theater to turn it into a SIFF theater?

It remains to be seen whether this means the festival is abandoning Pacific Place, but man do we hope it does.