About the Festival
Your Pacific Northwest hub for independent animation!
Sea Slug Animation Festival is a film festival in Seattle celebrating the ingenuity, creativity, and weirdness of independent animation from around the world.
Sea Slug showcases all animation mediums, with a special emphasis on films. Sea Slug strives to empower animators and animation fans local to Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia to form personal and professional connections around animation, and to take pride in the talent right here in this neck of the woods.
❀Sea Slug showcases all animation mediums, with a special emphasis on films. Sea Slug strives to empower animators and animation fans local to Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia to form personal and professional connections around animation, and to take pride in the talent right here in this neck of the woods.
In 2025, we planted the seeds. In 2026, we watered our tender shoots. Now our wee buds are bloomin’ wild and they WON’T be contained!
Yeah, it’s hard to feel hopeful in these times. Soulless, evil attempts at absolute power pour in from all levels of society like a trenchant rain. How to keep going? How to not harden into total cynicism?
Like a wild poppy peeking out from a crack in the sidewalk, we insist upon beauty in the bleakest of spaces.
Like a sea of cherry blossoms floating atop gnarled branches, we return again and again with tenderness and tenacity.
Like a carpet of dandelions pushing through a manicured lawn, we resist control and containment.
With the unrestrained creativity of animation and the purity of art in our hearts, we declare:
Stay soft. Grow wild!
Yeah, it’s hard to feel hopeful in these times. Soulless, evil attempts at absolute power pour in from all levels of society like a trenchant rain. How to keep going? How to not harden into total cynicism?
Like a wild poppy peeking out from a crack in the sidewalk, we insist upon beauty in the bleakest of spaces.
Like a sea of cherry blossoms floating atop gnarled branches, we return again and again with tenderness and tenacity.
Like a carpet of dandelions pushing through a manicured lawn, we resist control and containment.
With the unrestrained creativity of animation and the purity of art in our hearts, we declare:
Stay soft. Grow wild!