Meet our talented team of programmers—the people who work and watch movies all year long to curate the best films possible for the Seattle International Film Festival, celebrating its 51st year from May 15 to 25, 2025. Full program info: siff.net/festival.

Sofia Felino (she/her)
Festival Programming Coordinator

What are your 10 favorite films ever?
1. Submarine (2010)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
3. The Princess Bride (1987)
4. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
6. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
7. Lost in Translation (2003)
8. Trainspotting (1996)
9. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
10. Juno (2007)

What’s one of your favorite Festival memories or anecdotes?
This is my first year with SIFF, so my best SIFF festival memories are yet to come!

What is your guilty pleasure film?
Spring Breakers (2012)

What's one thing we should know about you that is NOT film related?
I consider myself to be a thrifting queen. My favorite things to collect are antique or quirky boxes, found photographs and postcards, and clothes worn on screen by the fashionable ladies of "Pretty Little Liars" (it’s how I choose to heal my inner child).

What do you consider your hometown?
My birthplace: Santa Barbara, CA. But Chicago, where I went to college, and Rhode Island, where my super Italian-American family is from, will always be home to me too.