1443 Films

03/16/2026

Come hang out with us tonight at the Tacoma Filmmaker Conversations event at The Grand Cinema. Doors at 6:30pm, and panel with local filmmakers at 7pm. Free to attend! We'll be talking film competitions, greenlighting your own projects, cultivating your creative crew, and so much more. See you there!

02/09/2026

Best Friend Material won audience choice at the Grave Plot Film Fest! Huge thanks to The Grave Plot Film Fest for including us in the lineup, another huge thanks to our fellow filmmakers for making this such a rad community to be a part of, and the hugest of thanks to the audience for laughing at our dumb jokes. Best friends for life!!!

02/02/2026

Check out the new poster for our short film "Best Friend Material" designed by our very own Mel McCarthy. You'll have another chance to watch it, alongside some very fun PNW horror shorts, this Saturday with The Grave Plot Film Fest in Seattle. Come hang with us and get spooked!

📍 Central Cinema
🗓 Saturday, Feb. 7, 2-6pm
🎟 Tix at graveplotfilmfest.com

01/15/2026

Our New Year's resolution is to finish our feature film, Wheel Force Go! Still figuring out some of these visual effects shots though...

We'll be coming to a theater near you (if you live in Tacoma or the surrounding areas) in 2026! Sign up for our newsletter to stay tuned on movie-making happenings and future screening dates: 1443films.kit.com/subscribe

12/11/2025

Starving artists gotta eat! Thank you to Artist Trust for awarding us a GAP grant to support post-production on our feature film, Wheel Force Go! Also, thanks for the free food 🤤

11/08/2025

Wow! What a flattering photo of Genevieve Ferrari! Do you like ham and only eating it? Then this movie is for you! Come hang out with us at the Washington Underground Film Festival - WUFF, Nov. 8 at 3pm. There will be beers but please BYOH.

10/29/2025

We can't wait for the Northwest Screenwriters Guild Table Read event next week! Come hang out with us, meet some local film folks, and listen to excerpts of brand new scripts from talented writers (including a portion of Mel's latest script!!!). Reserve your FREE ticket here: eventbrite.com/e/nwsg-green-room-table-read-tickets-1774635445389

Wednesday, November 5th
6-9 pm
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Avenue, Seattle

10/16/2025

Our new short film, BEST FRIEND MATERIAL, will be screening at Bleedingham Horror Film Festival on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 7:30pm. And best friends come to each other's movie premieres, so get your tickets at bleedingham.com and we'll see you there bffs!

Is Shrek's house a cabin? Debate in the comments.

09/25/2025

Got a new little short film cookin' just in time for spooky season. Stay tuned for BEST FRIEND MATERIAL, a horror comedy about a guys weekend gone wrong. Coming out this October!

📷: Nick Gates

09/16/2025

Tacoma! Come hang out with us and our monsters at some super fun upcoming events: The totally awesome robot body from our upcoming feature film, Wheel Force Go!, will be on display at the Tacoma Art Museum's Funhouse event this Friday! Or join us at Kaleidoscope, the kick-off party for Tacoma Arts Month, on October 4th for our monster-making workshop to make some of your own creations! 👹🤡🤖🧟‍♂️🦀

09/03/2025