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Were you unable to attend the PROJECT VIEWFINDER premiere screening on May 1st?
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Were you unable to attend the PROJECT VIEWFINDER premiere screening on May 1st?
Well, not to worry! It’s now available to view online!
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Filmmaker and Portland State University professor Dustin Morrow’s first feature is a contemporary musical that tells the story of a young college professor who, crippled by numbing grief, has shut himself off from the world following the death of his wife. At the same time, a young singer-songwriter (popular indie rocker Kate Tucker), struggling to make a name for herself and bogged down by the pressures of turning her art into commerce, has lost sight of why she wanted to make music in the first place. The film chronicles the budding friendship between the professor and the singer, as the energy and beauty of her music begin to bring him back to life and the value of her songs to this man reawakens her to the merits of making music. (85 mins.)
Director Dustin Morrow will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A session.
To hear a special edition of our Adjust Your Tracking podcast, featuring an interview with Morrow, click here.
EVERYTHING WENT DOWN screens on Thursday, May 2 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum). The film is being presented as part of our ongoing Northwest Tracking series.
Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.
“Whether or not Raymond Chandler will be included in the pantheon of great American literature, he is credited with creating one of literature and cinema’s most beloved heroes, private eye Phillip Marlowe (played here by Robert Montgomery; also by Dick Powell in MURDER, MY SWEET [1944] and Humphrey Bogart in THE BIG SLEEP [1946]). In this unusual film noir, screenwriter Steve Fisher and director/star Robert Montgomery have situated Marlowe as the camera itself, his image only seen reflected in mirrors (a stratagem employed by Fassbinder in his EFFI BRIEST). Marlowe is hired to investigate a woman’s disappearance, which ultimately conceals a crime. In his directorial debut, Montgomery portrays Marlowe, whose journey is complicated by two beauties, played by Jayne Meadows and Audrey Totter.”—PF (105 mins.)
LADY IN THE LAKE screens on Tuesday, April 30 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum). The film is being presented as part of our Literature Into Film series.
Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.
If you’ve been keeping up with us over the last six months, you’ve probably heard about Project Viewfinder, our latest community outreach program at the Northwest Film Center School of Film. Working with a dedicated group of young adults transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency, our faculty and assistants have served as shepherds to these youth, teaching them how to use the tools of film to communicate their stories to the community and the world at large.
On May 1 at 6pm, these young filmmakers will present their work to an audience for the first time and we’d like you to come. This is a special moment for us, them, and the community and we’d like to share it with a large audience. We would also love it if you could help us spread the word about next Wednesday’s screening. To that end, feel free to grab either the image above (sized for use as a Facebook banner) or the one below (custom fit for use as your Facebook profile picture) and let your friends know that you’re going to Project Viewfinder’s premiere.
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On Wednesday, May 1 at 6p.m., we celebrate the creative spirit and artistic achievements of a group of young adults who have spent the last several months participating in Project Viewfinder, a School of Film community outreach project conducted with the help of New Avenues for Youth, p:ear, Outside In, and the Bud Clark Commons Media Project. Mentored by lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting instructors, these youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to find their voices as media makers, sharing personal stories about the struggles of homelessness and the transitions they are now trying to make to lives of hope, joy, and self-sufficiency. Together, the works are a poignant reflection on an often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of community vitality and livability. (80 mins.)
DAVID: Walking by (Project Viewfinder Excerpt) from NW Film Center School of Film on Vimeo.
Many of the youth filmmakers will be in attendance. Join us for a pre-film reception at 5 p.m. in the Andree Stevens Room, adjacent to the Whitsell Auditorium. For more info, click here.
Free admission.
On Wednesday, May 1 at 6p.m., we celebrate the creative spirit and artistic achievements of a group of young adults who have spent the last several months participating in Project Viewfinder, a School of Film community outreach project conducted with the help of New Avenues for Youth, p:ear, Outside In, and the Bud Clark Commons Media Project. Mentored by lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting instructors, these youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to find their voices as media makers, sharing personal stories about the struggles of homelessness and the transitions they are now trying to make to lives of hope, joy, and self-sufficiency. Together, the works are a poignant reflection on an often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of community vitality and livability. (80 mins.)
REX: Underneath (Project Viewfinder Excerpt) from NW Film Center School of Film on Vimeo.
Many of the youth filmmakers will be in attendance. Join us for a pre-film reception at 5 p.m. in the Andree Stevens Room, adjacent to the Whitsell Auditorium. For more info, click here.
Free admission.
Jennifer Anderson and Vernon Lott (BAD WRITING, CONFLUENCE), a husband-and-wife filmmaking team from Lewiston, Idaho, return with this directors’ cut screening of their new film unearthing a little-reported, century-old crime. In 1887, more than 30 Chinese gold miners were murdered on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon. Evidence points to an improbable gang of seven rustlers and schoolboys—one only 15 years old—as the killers. With narration by actor Robert Longstreet (PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, THE OREGONIAN), an evocative score by Tim Hecker, and editing by Nigel Galt (EYES WIDE SHUT), MASSACRED FOR GOLD contemplates the inhumanity of the tragic event and the otherwise forgotten men who were so senselessly killed. (112 mins.)
Based on the book Massacred for Gold by R. Gregory Nokes.
Author R. Gregory Nokes and cinematographer Ryan K. Adams will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A session.
To hear a special edition of our Adjust Your Tracking podcast, featuring an interview with director Vernon Lott, click here.
To read The Oregonian’s coverage of MASSACRED FOR GOLD, click here.
Massacred for Gold – Teaser 1 from Morris Hill Pictures on Vimeo.
MASSACRED FOR GOLD screens on Thursday, April 11 AT 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).
Tickets are available for Thursday night’s screening here.
The Northwest Film Center’s continuing commitment to highlighting cinematic works produced in the Northwest region is housed within its Northwest Tracking series. On April 11, the series hosts a special directors cut screening of the new film MASSACRED FOR GOLD.
Jennifer Anderson and Vernon Lott, the duo that brought us CONFLUENCE and BAD WRITING, now journey to Hells Canyon, Oregon, 1887. The murder of more than 30 Chinese gold miners casts suspicion and a dark shadow over a group of local rustlers and schoolboys. MASSACRED FOR GOLD revisits this tragedy, wielding what fragments of evidence remain from the horrific event, bringing a mystery obscured by time back to life for contemporary audiences.
Through the use of speculative narration by actor Robert Longstreet, the film probes into the heated political climate of the Northwest in the 1880s, when a mass immigration of Chinese workers prompted prejudice and rampant hate crimes throughout the region. Anderson and Lott offer a glimpse into the judicial process of a bygone era, peering back to a time that yielded such miscarriages of justice as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. With its eye on the past, MASSACRED FOR GOLD stands as meditation on the inhumanity woven through our history via this complex recollection of a senseless and nearly forgotten crime.
Screening time:
April 11 – Thursday 7p.m.
The Northwest Film Center is a regional media arts organization offering a variety of exhibition, education programs, and artist services throughout the region. The Center presents a program of foreign, classic, experimental, and independent works year-round at the Whitsell Auditorium, located in the Portland Art Museum. For more information, visit www.nwfilm.org.
Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium Portland Art Museum-1219 SW Park Avenue
Admission: $9 General; $8 Students, Seniors
Advanced Tickets: http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/48/516/#2926
Poker was once a blue-collar game played in smoky backrooms over beer-soaked green felt tables, until an online poker player from Tennessee shocked the world by winning $2.5 million at the 2003 World Series of Poker. The truth behind the hype is that there is a dark side to this game, one you won’t see on ESPN. First-time filmmaker (and Portland resident) Mike Weeks examines the highs and lows of online poker from two very different perspectives: that of Dusty Schmidt, an amateur golfer turned professional online poker player who has earned four million dollars at the sport to date and is considered among the world’s elite players, and that of Michael Korpi, Jr., a star athlete and talented musician whose weakness for online poker derailed his life. (77 mins.)
Director Mike Weeks will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A session.
To hear a special edition of our Adjust Your Tracking podcast, featuring an interview with director Mike Weeks, click here.
To read the Portland Mercury’s review of DRAWING DEAD, click here.
DRAWING DEAD screens on Thursday, April 4 at our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).
Tickets are available for Thursday night’s screening here.
