WTO/99
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
Fri Dec 05: 7.00pm PDT
Sat Dec 06: 4.00pm PDT
Sun Dec 07: 4.00pm PDT, 7.00pm PDT
Sat Dec 13: 4.00pm PDT
Sun Dec 14: 4.00pm PDT, 7.00pm PDT
$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
About
(Ian Bell, 2025, United States, 100 min, in English)
From November 30th to December 3rd 1999, tens of thousands of people occupied the streets of downtown Seattle to make known their concerns about the existence of the World Trade Organization and its impacts on the environment, human rights, and labor in the largest protests against economic globalization the US has ever seen.
The protests brought together people from divergent sections of societyanarchists, environmentalists, labor unions, consumer protection advocates, pro-democracy groups, and even religious organizations.
These protestors gathered in direct action hoping to dissuade world leadership from continued support of the WTO and strived to focus the publics attention to the kind of future the WTO would bring forth.
Building from a thousand-hour archive, which includes more than 400 hours of never-before-seen footage, WTO99 reanimates the ideological conflicts that drew thousands to the streets of Seattle in hopes for a better future. The film is an immersive visual artifact of a week that brought 40,000 people together to warn of environmental collapse, the vanishing middle class, and what the full inclusion of China in the World Trade Organization would mean for our collective future. The protestersseen as a rabble-rousing nuisance at the time, yet appearing prophetic todaywere met with extreme violence by a militarized police force, an all-too-fitting way to usher in a new century; one that is now defined by US failure to address climate change and increasing state aggression. |
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Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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| First: | Friday 05 Dec 2025 19:00 | | Last: | Sunday 14 Dec 2025 19:00 |
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum's ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at rajah@nwfilmforum.org
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