Cinema with a Splash: Acknowledgments

(Click here to get back to the intro page on Cinema with a Splash.)

(Click and click again to enlarge image below.)

Between scenes in front of the classic Frederick & Nelson downtown department store (now the site of Nordstrom) director Claudia Weill is flanked by actors Cynthia Nixon (left) and Gena Rowlands during the shoot of “Face of a Stranger” (1991, TV movie). (Courtesy Claudia Weill)

Cover-story package published in Seattle Times online on July 13, 2025
and in Pacific NW Magazine of the printed Times on July 13, 2025

A boatload of thank-yous!

By Clay Eals

Such a photo-heavy cover-story package doesn’t assemble itself. I am grateful for those who provided quick communication regarding materials for this presentation about made-in-Seattle movies that feature the waterfront. Here are the ones I can name:

Matthew R. Brady, producer, “Grassroots” (2012)

Bernard A. Drew, author, and Ben Ohmart, BearManor Media

Brian Fox, Criterion Pictures USA

Justyne Lewallen, New Regency

Christopher Miehl, Chuck Waters Papers, Pepperdine University Special Collections and University Archives

Bob Rosson, Visual Icon

Jeffrey Townsend, production designer, and Roger G. Shank, set-rendering artist, “Sleepless in Seattle” (1993)

Claudia Weill, director, “Face of a Stranger” (1991)

Livi Zheng, Sun and Moon Films, co-writer, co-producer, co-director, “Brush with Danger” (2014)

And alert readers Nate Lessler, Cary Moon, Richard Stanton and Daryl Whitley!

(Click here to get back to the intro page on Cinema with a Splash.)

Now & then here and now…