KBOO Interview with Makers Near and Far

The yesterday morning’s The Film Show on KBOO Community Radio was packed full of Film Center related interviews.

First on the show was Linda Goldstein Knowlton, director of the documentary SOMEWHERE BETWEEN, which has been screening at PIFF for a touched and affected audience and has it’s final screening for high school students as part of our Global Classroom program.

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SOMEWHERE BETWEEN focuses on teenage girls from around the US that have all been adopted from China, and the identity issues they encounter.

The show then turns to Janet McIntyre and Kelley Baker (School of Film Instructor), director and executive producer respectively of FADED: GIRLS + BINGE DRINKING another documentary about young women, this time focusing on binge drinking and the issues surrounding it. The film is screening at the Film Center on March 15, 7 PM as part of our NW Tracking program featuring local filmmakers.

Listen to The Film Show here: http://kboo.fm/node/34064

MAKE IT SHORT Winners!

An amazing crowd of makers, supporters, and film lovers came out last night for the MAKE IT SHORT 40 Second Film Contest.

It was a fun and eclectic evening, celebrating NW makers and all about loosening up and making something short. The audience and judges viewed over 130, 40 second (or less) films and quickly cast their votes. We now bring you the results!

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Movers & Makers! Talking With Staff about Recent Works

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The staff here isn’t just tirelessly dedicated to bringing you this year’s best international cinema, or troubleshooting Final Cut with you when sewing together that montage for Digital Video Editing; nope, we are also tirelessly dedicated to making our own movies too!

Miles Sprietsma and Jonathan Dick–usually found behind our equipment room window, helping you with gear and software–both have works in the upcoming NW FILM CENTER MOVERS & MAKERS screening on January 26, 7 PM.

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Sound Byte: Joanna Priestley

Third generation Portlander, Joanna Priestley talks about sand and meat animation, meeting Andrei Tarkovsky, and breaking into the app world.

Catch a screening of Priestley’s work on January 28th, at 7 PM in the Whitsell Auditorium.

You worked at the Film Center in the 1980s before going to grad school. How did you get involved?

After college, I lived in Sisters, Oregon, where there were no movie theaters. This was before VHS and DVD too. So a friend and I started our own screening program, “Strictly Cinema,” and it became very successful. We brought over Portland filmmakers like Bob Gardiner and had a big animation festival.

portrait-001editAfter doing that for about a year and half, I saw a job listing for a film librarian in The Oregonian. I drove to Portland and interviewed with the Film Center’s director, Bob Sitton. I wore a crazy hat with a gigantic plume in it. He was quite charmed by the hat and offered me the job.

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MAKE IT SHORT: Talking With Kurtis Hough About His Viral Submission

Kurtis Hough’s entry to our MAKE IT SHORT contest (the one rule: to keep the total running time at 40 seconds or under–in celebration of 40 years of the Film Center in the making!) made a big splash, pun intended. Going viral on the Internet, with half a million hits in one day, was just the beginning for this tragic movie with a happy ending.

Kurtis took the time to tell us a little more about this short, and his interest in video and animation:

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