Films & Schedules - Saturday, November 8, 2014

Saturday, November 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Miller Gallery, Mark Building, Portland Art Museum
1119 SW Park Ave.

The Northwest Filmmakers’ Un-Conference is a Barcamp-style event organized by filmmakers/participants for filmmakers/participants. The process begins before the Festival, when participants come together online to introduce themselves, suggest topics, and explore discussion ideas. Past sessions have included conversations on self-distribution, archiving work, navigating festivals, building social communities, and more. This is an event where novice filmmakers might meet their next crew and accomplished filmmakers might meet their inspiration. The Northwest has a wealth of filmmaking resources—none as invaluable as the filmmakers...

Saturday, November 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Miller Gallery, Mark Building, Portland Art Museum
1119 SW Park Ave.

The Northwest Filmmakers’ Un-Conference is a Barcamp-style event organized by filmmakers/participants for filmmakers/participants. The process begins before the Festival, when participants come together online to introduce themselves, suggest topics, and explore discussion ideas. Past sessions have included conversations on self-distribution, archiving work, navigating festivals, building social communities, and more. This is an event where novice filmmakers might meet their next crew and accomplished filmmakers might meet their inspiration. The Northwest has a wealth of filmmaking resources—none as invaluable as the filmmakers themselves—so pull up a chair and take part. Breakfast provided by KIND Healthy Snacks; lunch vouchers offered by Chipotle Mexican Grill. Lunch vouchers offered by Chipotle Mexican Grill. Contact Festival Manager Thomas Phillipson at thomas@nwfilm.org to connect with your comrades-in-film.

Free admission.

Sponsored by The Regional Arts and Culture Council.

FREE ADMISSION

To view entries awarded Honorable Mention, please visit vimeo.com/schooloffilm starting Nov. 8.

FREE ADMISSION

To view entries awarded Honorable Mention, please visit vimeo.com/schooloffilm starting Nov. 8.

Whitsell Auditorium     90 Minutes    

Interests: Animation, Documentary, Narrative.

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BURL PATROL

DIRECTOR: GAVIN BRADLEY, ANTON LIAKHOVITCH, DARMIS TARAGHI, RACHEL WILLIAMS - (NW DOCUMENTARY & OMSI, PORTLAND, OR)

(DOC) A theft alert arrives from deep inside the forest.

7 Minutes    

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A WING, A BILL, OR A FOOT

DIRECTOR: BAILEY, EVAN, DANA, DIANA, GWYNN - (NW DOCUMENTARY & OMSI, PORTLAND, OR)

(DOC) Bird population behavior is revealed in surprising ways.

5 Minutes    

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RAVEN ROCK

DIRECTOR: RACHEL COLE, JAYA FLANARY, MEAGEN TAJALLE - (BALLARD HIGH SCHOOL, SEATTLE, WA)

(DOC) Equine therapy’s dual effect on rescued horses and at-risk youth.

8 Minutes    

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CLIPPED WINGS

DIRECTOR: LEO PFEIFER, DUNCAN GOWDY, COLEMAN ANDERSON - (BALLARD HIGH SCHOOL, SEATTLE, WA)

(DOC) On the journey to Eagle Scout, discrimination gets in the way.

8 Minutes    

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ABDUCTION

DIRECTOR: HAYLIE BOLTE - (VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ACADEMICS, VANCOUVER, WA)

(ANI) A loved one goes missing.

1 Minutes    

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PARADOX PROBLEM

DIRECTOR: “THURSDAY THING” VIDEO CLUB - (PORTLAND COMMUNITY MEDIA, PORTLAND, OR)

(NAR) The wild journey of experimental time travel.

5 Minutes    

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THE BRILLIANT MIND OF CEDRIC KUZNETZOV

DIRECTOR: SPENCER SLOVIC - (PORTLAND, OR)

(NAR) A rule-bound scientist cures himself while curing others.

7 Minutes    

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AIR PRESSURE

DIRECTOR: LEO PFEIFER, COLEMAN ANDERSON, JOSH VREDEVOOGD - (BALLARD HIGH SCHOOL, SEATTLE, WA)

(NAR) A man and his balloon art are under pressure, on and off stage.

7 Minutes    

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FLIGHT

DIRECTOR: ALEX FORTMANN - (LAKE OSWEGO, OR)

(NAR) The power of imagination bridges childhood and adolescence.

2 Minutes    

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BUSTER WAS A MAN

DIRECTOR: ADAM MACARTHUR, ETHAN SENEKER - (EVERETT, WA)

(NAR) What it takes to break out of a daily routine.

5 Minutes    

(NAR) Having recently moved to Missoula, Montana to teach English to a group of international students, thirty-something Doris finds herself alone. She wanders listlessly, but her students possess courage, purpose, and grounding and understand what it takes to belong. Inspired in part by director Brenner-Sung’s experience moving to Montana in 2011, BELLA VISTA is a meditation on displacement and adaptation in the contemporary American West exploring both the perils of rootlessness as well as the optimism of new beginnings. (83 mins.)

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(NAR) Having recently moved to Missoula, Montana to teach English to a group of international students, thirty-something Doris finds herself alone. She wanders listlessly, but her students possess courage, purpose, and grounding and understand what it takes to belong. Inspired in part by director Brenner-Sung’s experience moving to Montana in 2011, BELLA VISTA is a meditation on displacement and adaptation in the contemporary American West exploring both the perils of rootlessness as well as the optimism of new beginnings. (83 mins.)

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Whitsell Auditorium    

Interests: Narrative.

Whitsell Auditorium     82 Minutes    

Interests: Animation, Documentary, Narrative, Experimental.

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THE GREATEST GIFT: BIKING SIX KIDS TO HAPPINESS

DIRECTOR: JOE BIEL - (PORTLAND, OR)

(DOC) A mother gives up her car to, rather heroically, transport her six kids by bike.

16 Minutes    

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GODHEAD

DIRECTOR: CONNOR GASTON - (VICTORIA, BC)

(NAR) A broken family learns to cope when their autistic son shows them everything they need without saying anything.

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COLD LIGHT DAY

DIRECTOR: DAYNA HANSON - (SEATTLE, WA)

(EXP) In this dreamy dance film, two men exchange cake and dance steps on a quiet marina dock.

6 Minutes    

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CATS

DIRECTOR: NEELY GONIODSKY - (KIRKLAND, WA)

(ANI) This poem by A. S. J. Tessimond receives an absurd interpretation.

2 Minutes    

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SHELL GAME

DIRECTOR: LOU KARSEN - (SEATTLE, WA)

(DOC) Kathleen Flenniken grew up near, and later was an engineer at, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and is now Washington State’s Poet Laureate.

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6 Minutes    

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DIAMOND BOX

DIRECTOR: RODRIGO VALENZUELA - (SEATTLE, WA)

(DOC) Valenzuela lived three years without documentation and hired day laborers from the parking lots he used to haunt for this film of stories from the migrant community.

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5 Minutes    

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A TALE OF MOMENTUM & INERTIA

DIRECTOR: KIRK KELLEY, KAMERON GATES - (PORTLAND, OR)

(ANI) Rock Giant holds the fate of a small coastal village in his hands.

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1 Minutes    

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MORNING LIGHT

DIRECTOR: ERIK ANDERSON - (VICTORIA, BC)

(DOC) This triptych follows the adventures of the filmmaker’s grandfather who sailed the Atlantic alone, his father, a reporter who died on Mt. Everest, and finishes with his grandmother’s recollections of both men.

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FIRE SEASON

DIRECTOR: COURTNEY SAUNDERS - (MISSOULA, MT)

(NAR) During a dry, hot summer in a small Montana town, two sisters share a brief, intense relationship with a young man who sweeps into their lives like a forest fire.

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17 Minutes    

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PROXIMITY

DIRECTOR: JOSHUA COX - (PORTLAND, OR)

(ANI) A Victorian gentlemen and a sixties cowgirl explore the kitschy depths of love and betrayal.

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(NAR) Alex, Todd, and Stephen are three hard-working friends who are content with spending their paychecks on hunting, beer, and women. Their simple life is soon disrupted when a strange band of brothers begin antagonizing them. (64 mins.)

PRECEDED BY

TACO NIGHT
DIRECTOR: KYLE EATON / PORTLAND, OR
(NAR) Two old friends who haven’t kept in touch drop by a party where they encounter a combative couple. (16 mins.)

(NAR) Alex, Todd, and Stephen are three hard-working friends who are content with spending their paychecks on hunting, beer, and women. Their simple life is soon disrupted when a strange band of brothers begin antagonizing them. (64 mins.)

PRECEDED BY

TACO NIGHT
DIRECTOR: KYLE EATON / PORTLAND, OR
(NAR) Two old friends who haven’t kept in touch drop by a party where they encounter a combative couple. (16 mins.)

Whitsell Auditorium    

Interests: Narrative.