Mission

Sea Slug is committed to building access, community, solidarity, and sustainability amongst animators and animation lovers around the Pacific Northwest.

We’re living our mission by:

✷ Access ✷
  • Creating DCPs for any accepted filmmakers who require them
  • Teaching students about the festival process and how to platform their work
  • Mentoring early career programmers
  • Hosting artists to sell their work at the Artist Alley with no tabling fees
  • Lowering ticket costs for young people to attend the festival
  • Exhibiting films containing dialogue with open subtitles or captions as much as possible

✷ Community ✷

  • Connecting with local arts organizations to promote each other’s programming
  • Meeting with local artists and filmmakers to address their needs through our festival
  • Fostering relationships between artists and audiences via festival events

✷ Solidarity ✷
  • Sharing opportunities for exhibition, employment, and art education in Britich Columbia, Washington, and Oregon
  • Championing human-made animation only
  • Promoting worker solidarity including unionization, living wages, and pro-artist legislation

✷ Sustainability ✷
  • Paying screening fees to all artists whose films play in the festival program
  • Eliminating submission fees as a form of festival income
  • Minimizing paper printing and utilizing local print shops
  • Developing a consistent platform for watching animated films theatrically