From September 22, 2012 at the Upstage at the Port Townsend Film Festival in Washington, SEDGE welcomed:

Actor
BRUCE DERN
the award-winning actor who has appeared in over 80 feature films, best known playing unstable and villainous characters. He was the guest of honor at the 2012 PT Film Festival. Nominated for Best Actor at the 2014 Academy Awards for his role in Nebraska.
Author
MARIA SEMPLE
the screenwriter for such shows as Arrested Development and Mad About You, who has reinvented herself as a novelist. She published one of the hottest books of the summer, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, a hilarious look at life in Seattle.
Project Manager
SONYA SENKOWSKY
of Day in Our Bay, a community-based digital storytelling project, giving voice to Native people living in the beautiful and remote Bristol Bay region of Alaska -- such as PETLA NODEN, who will also be joining us.