SNIFF notes: Opening night

Friday’s opening night of the 2003 Spokane Northwest International Film Festival , which runs through Sunday at The Met, wasn’t a sellout. But neither did it leave those of us who attended feeling as if we were the only few survivors not yet voted off the island.

Maybe half of the 740-odd seats at The Met were filled. Not bad for a film, Canadian filmmaker Nicholas Racz’s “The Burial Society,” that has as much to do with the Inland Northwest as this Seattle-type weather that we’ve been happening.