Sea Slug Animation 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. Through our annual festival and year-round events, Sea Slug showcases all animation mediums, with a special emphasis on films. Sea Slug strives to empower animators and animation fans local to British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon to form personal and professional connections around animation, and to take pride in the talent right here in this neck of the woods.

Our first-ever GiveBIG goal is to raise $1,000—the cost to pay all filmmakers in one shorts package for the 2027 festival! Though film festivals don't often compensate artists to exhibit their work, paying artists is a core tenet of our organization, and film screening fees make up the bulk of our costs! Your tax-deductible donation will help us execute our mission of sustaining animation as a career.