2019 Portland Film Festival Program #PDXFF19

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FESTIVAL VENUES

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HI-LO HOTEL, 320 SW Harvey Milk Street, Portland, OR 97204 CITY HALL, 1221 SW 4th Ave, Portland, OR 97204 26

5 Lobby Elevator

Festival HQ Lobby

Tickets & Passes

THE EXCHANGE

Main Entry

THE LOWER LEVEL Elevator

pre-Function Corridor

THE Xfinity Theater

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Workshop Hall

THE Koerner Camera Theater

INTRODUCTION

A NOTE FROM US Independent film is coming to Portland October 14-20. We are screening more independent movies than most theaters screen in a year.

Here are some highlights: • We are screening over 100 films from around the world—over 53% were directed by women!

• You can catch a Portland-made film almost every day of the Festival.

• We’ve added Veterans Voices. Almost every day of the Festival you can watch a movie made by or about Veterans. This culminates in a special screening of local Portland Veterans screening their newly created films with the Patton Veterans Project, with a special appearance and reception with General S. Patton’s grandson sponsored by Comcast.

• To celebrate Indigenous Day, we are screening several films about or made by Indigenous filmmakers.

• Our #FutureFilmmakers program sponsored by Comcast is back with six new monster movies made by area kids from the Boys and Girls Club of Portland. We will have a reception with cookies and treats right after their screening.

Special thanks to Comcast NBC Universal and all of our sponsors including Hi-Lo Hotel, Koerner Camera, Pepsi Co, SAG-AFTRA, Plum Tree Mortgage, Oregon Film, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Gearhead Production Rentals and other amazing sponsors located on page 10.

High fives to all of the amazing volunteers, staff, filmmakers, speakers and jury that make this Festival possible.

Whatever film genre you prefer, The Portland Film Festival has great movies to offer everyone. Grab a ticket and enjoy!

OUR MISSION Portland Film Festival is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to nurturing filmmakers and audiences, and celebrating the power of a good story.

The Festival focuses on the people, ideas, technology, skills and artistry behind filmmaking and provides both entertaining and educational opportunities to the public.

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DAILY EVENTS, NETWORKING & PARTIES OPENING NIGHT PARTY

DAILY AFTERPARTIES

The Exchange

Daily: Mon Oct 14th - Sat, Oct 19th

Tues, Oct 15th | Doors open at 8pm | $15 to Attend Open to all Pass Holders

Every night of the week. we’ll visit one of Portland’s favorite night spots.

Celebrate the opening of the 2019 Portland Film Festival. Drinks & food provided. Limited tickets, buy now before they sell out. Live music & special guests.

Monday: Huber’s, 411 SW 3rd Ave.

DIRECTOR’S COFFEE CHATS

Friday: Yur’s, 717 NW 16th Ave.

Free and open to the public The Exchange Daily: Tues Oct 15th - Sat, Oct 19th | 11:30-1:00pm Panel with Directors from each day’s films with time to chat and mingle over coffee and food provided by Portland Film Festival & Kind Energy Snacks.

FILMMAKER & VIP LOUNGE Daily: Tues Oct 15th - Sun, Oct 20th | 2pm-6:30pm An exclusive VIP pass holder experience. Relax in between workshops and films in our comfortable lounge where you are treated to an array of snacks, lunch served daily, libations from Avid Cider Co. and much more.

FREE WI-FI.

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Tuesday: Shanghai Tunnel, 211 SW Ankeny St. Wednesday: Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St. Thursday: Virginia Café, 820 SW 10th Ave. Saturday: Rialto, 529 SW 4th Ave.

CHAMPAGNE TOAST & FILMMAKER WELCOME RECEPTION Festival HQ Mon, Oct 14th | 5:30pm Celebrate the independent spirit and importance of creative arts in Portland, Oregon, the public is invited to walk the red carpet, meet visiting and local filmmakers and toast with a glass of champagne and hors d’oeuvres the opening of the 2019 Portland Film Festival presented

by Comcast NBC Universal.

The event is free to attend. Also in attendance will be special guests.

DAILY EVENTS, NETWORKING & PARTIES FILM INDUSTRY NETWORKING

FILMMAKERS BRUNCH

(Ticket & Pass Holders)

Sun Oct 20th | 9:30am

Festival HQ

As the Festival comes to a close we’d like to invite festival filmmakers to join us for breakfast where we discuss and review the many films, workshops, parties and special details that make our event an A+ plus experience!

Mon, Oct 14th | 7:30pm Seeking Crew? Want to expand your business? Looking for work? Or are you simply interested in meeting likeminded people? Don’t miss out on our annual Networking event where we will toast our dedicated sponsors and organizations that support the expansion of the Portland filmmaking community. You must have a Pass or networking ticket to attend.

The Exchange

VETERANS FILMMAKER RECEPTION Sun Oct 20th | 2:30pm The Exchange

Monthly networking event of documentary filmmakers sponsored by NW Documentary. Open to the public and visiting filmmakers.

Reception following screening with Benjamin Patton, grandson of General George S. Patton, and Brigadier General (Ret.) Carol Eggert, Senior Vice-President of Military and Veterans Affairs, Comcast. Don’t miss the Screening of short films made by local veterans in conjunction with the Patton Veterans Project, which helps veterans strengthen family, community, and professional bonds through intensive filmmaking workshops to process their service experiences.

AN EVENING AT PORTLAND CITY HALL

AWARDS CEREMONY & CLOSING NIGHT PARTY

1221 SW 4th Avenue, Portland

The Exchange

Thurs, Oct 17th | 6:30pm

Sat, Oct 19th | Doors open at 8pm | $15 to Attend

DOC MEETUP The Exchange Wed Oct 16th | 6:30pm

A VIP evening of hors d’oeuvres and champagne, while musical guest, The Djangophiles, entertains us with music that echoes off the elaborate marble stairwell filling this VIP and filmmakers evening with memories for years to come.

Several special guests will be in attendance. Must have a VIP pass or individual ticket for entrance.

ALUMNI MIXER PARTY

Open to all Pass Holders Join filmmakers, screenwriters, actors and all the people who make the film industry thrive as we celebrate the awards for best films and bring a close to Portland’s most exciting film festival! Cocktails, appetizers and music!

Award winners will be announced for Sunday Screenings!

Sponsored by Koerner Camera Systems.

The Exchange Fri Oct 18th | 7:30pm Alumni are invited to an extended evening with appetizers, libations and great conversations with filmmakers, actors and industry professionals reminiscing and sharing memories from #PDXFF past.

FUTURE FILMMAKERS RECEPTION The Exchange Sat Oct 19th | 1:30pm Come meet the filmmakers and instructors behind this year’s workshop includes snacks and drinks hosted by Comcast, Boys & Girls Club of Portland and the Portland Film Festival.

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SCHEDULE MONDAY, OCTOBER 14

11:30AM Acting: Q&A | Panel

5:30PM Champagne Toast & Filmmaker Welcome Reception

7:30PM Film Industry Networking | Event

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15TH

6:30PM Standing Up, Falling Down | Opening Night Feature Lady Parts | Opening Night Short

8:00PM Opening Night Party

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16TH

1:00PM The First & The Last Time | Documentary

1:30PM Right to Harm | Documentary

1:30PM Writing For The Screen: More Than Just Movies | Workshop

3:30PM American History | Shorts Block

4:00PM Leakage | Narrative

4:00PM Business of Acting: Voice Over Talents | Workshop

5:30PM Fire on the Hill | Documentary

6:00PM Directors Panel & Discussion | Workshop

6:20PM Last Call | Documentary

6:30PM Doc Meetup | Event

7:30PM Bad Art | Narrative

8:10PM Parental Advisory | Shorts Block

9:10PM Portland Shorts A 10:20PM Yonlu | Narrative

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17TH

1:00PM Portland Shorts Block B

1:30PM Camino Skies | Documentary

1:30PM Creating Stories with Legs | Workshop

3:15PM Indigenous Voices | Shorts Block

3:30PM Love Stories XOXO | Shorts Block

4:00PM Casting, Agents & Talent Managers | Workshop

5:20PM Ay, Mariposa | Documentary

5:45PM Adolescence | Narrative

6:00PM Producers Panel & Discussion | Workshop

6:30PM An Evening at Portland City Hall

6:50PM The Space | Documentary

7:45PM Cheek Splitting | Comedy | Shorts Block

8:45PM Let the Bell Ring | Documentary

9:50PM Sanctuary | Documentary

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10:45PM Bad Art | Narrative

SCHEDULE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18TH

1:00PM The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | Indigenous Voices

1:30PM Portland Filmmaking | Workshop

1:30PM Veterans | Shorts Block

3:15PM International Falls | Narrative

3:20PM Animation | Shorts Block

4:00PM Distribution for Independent Filmmakers | Workshop

5:20PM Neither Here nor There | Shorts Block

5:20PM Reckoning | Narrative

5:30PM Financial Domination Master Class | Workshop

6:00PM Cinematographers Point of View | Workshop

7:15PM Nightmare on Harvey Milk St. | Horror | Shorts Block

7:25PM Use Me | Portland Feature

7:30PM Alumni Mixer Party | Event

9:05PM Portland Shorts Block B

9:30PM Use Me | Portland Feature

10:50PM Crackhouse of the Dead

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19TH

12:30AM Boys & Girls Club | Future Filmmakers

1:00PM Seaside | Portland Feature

1:30PM Future Filmmakers Reception

2:05PM Portland Shorts Block A

3:00PM Princess of the Row | Narrative

4:15PM Voices of the People | Documentary | Shorts Block

5:30PM Here Awhile | Closing Night Feature

6:15PM If Not Now, When? | Narrative

6:15PM Get Gone | Narrative

8:00PM Awards Ceremony & Closing Night Party

8:45PM The Worst Thing | Veterans Voices

9:35PM Warrior Women | Indigenous Voices

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20TH

9:30AM Filmmakers Brunch

1:00PM Director’s Award

1:30PM Patton Veterans Project

2:30PM Veterans Filmmaker Reception

3:15PM Audience Award Winner Short & Feature

3:30PM Camino Skies | Documentary

5:45PM Best Documentary

6:20PM Best Narrative

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SPONSORS

OUR STAFF Joshua Leake Executive Director

Andrea Danehower Sales & Development

Jennifer Arndt Operations Manager & Director of Hospitality

Ryan Leverenz PR

Joe Stevens Director of Programming

Paul Sbrizzi Graphic Designer

Stacey Stevens Director of Submissions, Indigenous Voices Programmer

Leah Faure Director of Meet-Ups

Ben Edwards Technical Advisor

Krista Hershberger Host & Volunteer Coordinator

Claire Francesca PR Assistant

Cholee Thompson Advisor & Board Member

Jon Soffa Director of Media & Technology

Kapiolani Lee Programmer

Robin Klein Director of Merchandise, Indigenous Voices Programmer

David SaldaĂąa Programmer

Doug Klein Director of Production Candace McDowell Director of Volunteers Holly Popkin Volunteer Coordinator

Rebeca Alamo Gonzalez Programmer Nikki Hassinger Programmer Greg Edmo Indigenous Voices Programmer

Michael Kurtz Director of Tickets & Passes

JOIN THE TEAM!

Vadim Mozyrsky Homestay Coordinator / Event Planner

Email us at volunteer@portlandfilm.org

Dianne Brennan Programmer

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GENERAL TICKETS REGULAR TICKET $10 online, $12 at door PANELS & WORKSHOPS $10 (unless otherwise indicated)

VIP PASS $279 ALL ACCESS $175 SENIOR & STUDENT PASS $165 INDUSTRY PASS $165

WHERE DO I PICK UP MY TICKETS OR FESTIVAL PASS? Patrons can pick up their passes during the Festival, from noon to 6pm daily at the festival headquarters at the Hi-Lo Hotel (10/13–10/20).

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OPENING NIGHT

Standing Up, Falling Down | Narrative Tuesday, October 15th, 6:30pm

A comedy about the unlikely friendship that kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A., forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island with his tail between his legs, and a tragically flawed, but charming and charismatic, alcoholic dermatologist. Discovering to be kindred spirits, each helps the other find healing, in addition to the confidence to face the “failures” in their lives.

USA | 91min | Director: Matt Ratner

Plus Spotlight Short Lady Parts | 10 min. | Narrative

OPENING NIGHT PARTY The Exchange Tues, Oct 15th | Doors open at 8pm | $15 to Attend Open to all Pass Holders

Celebrate the opening of the 2019 Portland Film Festival. Drinks & food provided. Limited tickets, buy now before they sell out. Live music & special guests.

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CLOSING NIGHT

Here Awhile | Narrative Saturday, October 19th, 5:30pm

Terminally ill Anna returns to Oregon to reconnect with her estranged brother while simultaneously making the heart-wrenching choice to end her life putting to use the Death with Dignity Act. USA | 82min | Director: Tim True

AWARDS CEREMONY & CLOSING NIGHT PARTY The Exchange Sat, Oct 19th | Doors open at 8pm | $15 to Attend Open to all Pass Holders

Join Filmmakers, screenwriters, actors and all the people who make the film industry thrive as we celebrate the awards for best films and bring a close to Portland’s most exciting film festival!

Cocktails, appetizers and music! Award winners will be announced for Sunday Screenings! Sponsored by Koerner Camera Systems.

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NARRATIVE COMPETITION Adolescence | Narrative Thursday, October 17th, 5:45pm

A teenager from an abusive household falls in love with a free-spirited runaway that leads him into the fast-lane lifestyle of drugs and addiction which threatens to destroy him.

USA | 99min | Director: Ashley Avis

Princess of the Row | Narrative Saturday, October 19th, 3:00pm

The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her father... a homeless mentally ill veteran who lives on the streets of LA’s skid row.

USA | 85min | Director: Van Maximilian Carlson

Reckoning | Narrative Friday, October 18th, 5:20pm After the disappearance of her husband, a struggling farmer in an isolated Appalachian community discovers she is a pawn in a blood-soaked revenge plot and the only way out for her and her son could mean destroying a decades-old truce.

USA | 86min | Director: Ruckus Skye, Lane Skye

Yonlu | Narrative Wednesday, October 16th, 10:20pm A fiction film based on the real story of a 16 year-old boy who won over the world with his talent for music and art. YONLU had a network of virtual friends on all continents. However, no one suspected he was also taking part in a forum for potential suicides.

Brazil | 88min | Director: Hique Montanari

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DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Ay Mariposa | Documentary Thursday, October 17th, 5:20pm

Ay Mariposa tells a story of three characters in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas whose lives are upended by plans to build a US-Mexico border wall.

USA | 57min | Director: Krista Schlyer

Fire on the Hill | Documentary Wednesday, October 16th, 5:30pm

The story of the Black Cowboys of Compton and South Central LA, and their fight to preserve their culture by resurrecting an inner city horse stable that was mysteriously burnt to the ground.

Canada | 78min | Director: Brett Fallentine

Sanctuary | Documentary Thursday, October 17th, 9:50pm

A Guatemalan mother of three U.S.-born children is the first immigrant since President Trump took office to claim sanctuary in New York, publicly resisting her deportation within a space that ICE recognizes as protected.

USA | 73min | Director: Andrea Cordoba

Warrior Women | Documentary Saturday, October 19th, 9:35pm Through a circular, indigenous style of storytelling, Warrior Women relates the lifelong struggle of a Lakota mother and daughter in the American Indian Movement’s fight for Native liberation from the 1970s to protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, ND in 2016.

USA | 64min | Directors: Christina D. King, Elizabeth A. Castle

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TRAILBLAZERS Camino Skies | Documentary Thursday, October 17th, 1:30pm Sunday, October 20th, 3:30pm

A film about life, love and loss on the Camino de Santiago, ‘Camino Skies’ is the inspirational story of everyday people doing the extraordinary as they learn to live with grief.

New Zealand | 80min | Directors: Noel Smyth, Fergus Grady

If Not Now, When? | Narrative Saturday, October 19th, 6:15pm When Tyra, who is mother to fourteen year-old Jillian, suffers a crisis, four women who have been friends since meeting at the age of fourteen are drawn back together to make it through, and soon discover that they also need each other, and sisterhood.

USA | 111min | Directors: Meagan Good, Tamara LaSeon Bass

Last Call | Narrative Wednesday, October 16th, 6:20pm The tale of a bitterly alone man, Scott, who calls the Suicide prevention hotline, but accidentally calls Beth, a janitor.

Canada | 76min | Director: Gavin Michael Booth

Let the Bell Ring | Documentary Thursday, October 17th, 8:45pm

When boxing prodigy Malcolm almost loses his fight on the way to the Golden Gloves, coach Jessie intensifies the training drastically, almost towards a path of destruction. Talent and passion are not enough - it’s the family around you.

Germany | 90min | Director: Christin Freitag

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VETERANS VOICES Fire on the Hill | Documentary Wednesday, October 16th, 5:30pm

The story of the Black Cowboys of Compton and South Central LA, and their fight to preserve their culture by resurrecting an inner city horse stable that was mysteriously burnt to the ground.

Canada | 78min | Director: Brett Fallentine

Veterans Shorts Friday, October 19th, 1:30pm ‘Grunt’ Film Project | 40min Proudly We Served | 30min

Patton Veterans Project | Shorts Sunday, October 20th, 1:30pm

Short films made by local veterans in conjunction with the Patton Veterans Project, which helps veterans strengthen family, community, and professional bonds through intensive filmmaking workshops to process their service experiences.

USA | 50min

Princess of the Row | Narrative Saturday, October 19th, 3:00pm

The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her father... a homeless mentally ill veteran who lives on the streets of LA’s skid row.

USA | 85min | Director: Van Maximilian Carlson

The Worst Thing | Documentary Saturday, October 19th, 8:45pm In 1985, Kathleen lost her brother Eddie, an American soldier, at the hands of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German leftist terrorist organization. Now, decades later, she decides to seek out the group responsible for his murder.

USA | 84min | Director: Desireena Almoradie

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NARRATIVES Bad Art | Narrative Wednesday, October 16th, 7:30pm Thursday, October 17th, 10:45pm A dark satire about the art world, where five mysterious buyers show up to an artist’s studio to buy a painting that doesn’t exist.

USA | 85min | Directors: Tania Raymonde, Zio Ziegler

Get Gone | Narrative Saturday, October 19th, 6:15pm An invasive drilling company are moving onto the land of a family that lives on the property illegally. When the drillers attack the family and the HoaxBusters get caught in the middle, things quickly go awry.

USA | 88min | Director: Michael Thomas Daniel

International Falls | Narrative Friday, October 18th, 3:15pm A woman stuck in a small, snowbound border town has dreams of doing comedy when she meets a washed up, burned out comedian with dreams of doing anything else.

USA | 93min | Director: Amber McGinnis

Leakage | Narrative Wednesday, October 16th, 4:00pm

When her husband disappears without a trace, Foziye’s body suddenly starts leaking crude oil. Increasingly, her family starts to make use of her situation to solve their problems.

Czech Republic | 104min | Director: Suzan Iravanian

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DOCUMENTARIES Right to Harm | Documentary Wednesday, October 16th, 1:30pm An exposé on the public health impact of factory farming across the U.S., told through the eyes of residents in five rural communities. Pushed to their limit, these disenfranchised citizens band together to demand justice from their legislators.

USA | 75min | Directors: Matt Wechsler, Annie Speicher

The Space | Documentary Thursday, October 17th, 6:50pm In 1972 at the height of the apartheid struggle in South Africa, when the government had silenced the non-white majority and racial tensions were reaching a breaking point, a group of artists risked everything to build a safe space dedicated to all freedoms—artistic, social and political.

UK | 88min | Directors: Dan Poole, Mark Street

The First & the Last Time |

Documentary Wednesday, October 16th, 1:00pm

A young group of apprentices is going to perform “Romeo and Juliet” in front of 450 people. The movie takes place during their rehearsal process.

Austria | 49min | Director: Rafael Haider

LATE NIGHT SCREENING Crackhouse of the Dead | Narrative Friday, October 18th, 10:50pm

Remember that old VHS horror movie you could watch as a kid? We found it! The retro zombie film of the 90s is back. An under cover cop, a drug deal, a hooker and others take refuge in an crack house against the undead. Who will survive?!

USA | 81min | Director: Jason Toler

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PORTLAND FOCUS Here Awhile | Narrative Saturday, October 19th, 5:30pm

Terminally ill Anna returns to Oregon to reconnect with her estranged brother while simultaneously making the heartwrenching choice to end her life putting to use the Death with Dignity Act. USA | 88min | Director: Tim True

Seaside | Narrative Saturday, October 19th, 1:00pm Daphne, a young Portland go-getter, moves to the Oregon Coast with boyfriend, Roger, to start anew when he inherits his childhood beach house. But when they run into Susanna, an awkward local, Daphne realizes that Roger hasn’t been entirely honest about his past.

USA | 88min | Director: Sam Zalutsky

Use Me | Narrative Friday, October 18th, 7:25pm Friday, October 18th, 9:30pm

An ambitious documentary filmmaker discovers the darkest parts of himself when he turns his camera on a beautiful woman who humiliates men for money.

Australia | 91min | Director: Julian Shaw

Portland Shorts A Saturday, October 19th, 2:05pm 99.98% | 18min Love Rose | 2min Gajah Borneo | 5min The Question- Anna Tivel | 5min Dead Man TalkingAll Into Gold | 6min

Bronzed | 12min Rewilding a Mountain | 27min Gabby Smashes | 5min

Portland Shorts B Thursday, October 17th, 1:00pm Friday, October 18th, 9:05pm The Mariachi & The Rattlesnake Witch | 5min Bodies Like Oceans | 13min Escape From Eagle Creek | 20min The Legend of Grayson Crockett | 26min Wayward | 9.5min In Time | 7min Gabby Smashes | 5min

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INDIGENOUS VOICES The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | Narrative Friday, October 18th, 1:00pm

Along, tense afternoon of bare instinct – both of survival and of motherhood—as two Indigenous women from very different backgrounds seek some semblance of stability and safety for themselves and each other.

USA | 88min | Director: Sam Zalutsky

Eagle Boy | Documentary Thursday, October 17th, 3:15pm A team competes in the Suicide Race, an infamous horse race that sends horses and their jockeys down a precariously steep hill and across the Okanogan River on the Colville Reservation in northern Washington State.

Australia | 59min | Directors: Samuel Wilson, Ruth Eddy Plays with

Zombies and Indians | 12min FAST HORSE | 14min

Warrior Women | Documentary Saturday, October 19th, 9:35pm Through a circular indigenous style of storytelling, Warrior Women relates the lifelong struggle of a Lakota mother and daughter in the American Indian Movement’s fight for Native liberation from the 1970s to protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, ND in 2016.

USA | 64min | Directors: Christina D. King, Elizabeth A. Castle

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SHORTS Block 1 | Love Stories xoxo | Narrative Thursday, October 18th, 3:30pm Something Round | 16min Mr Allan on Saturday | 15min For the Girl in the Coffee Shop | 9min Where We Began | 7min Room Service | 10min Baby Blue | 9min Violent Water | 5min Suicide Date | 13min

Block 2 | Animation Friday, October 18th, 3:20pm Shattered | 3min Kishi Bashi- Violin Tsunami | 5min Winter’s Blight | 14min Stage | 3min Blieschow 10min Timmy & the Dream Sui Generis | 15min Killers | 5min The Moon’s Milk | 14min Osirika-Black Champagne | 5min First Time Ghost | 3min Sirens | 2min

Block 3 | Nightmare on Harvey Milk St. | Horror Friday, October 18th, 7:15pm Hearth | 11min Water Horse | 8min House of Redeption-Hear Me | 13min An Affable Devil | 10min This Must Be the Place | 9min Furniture | 6min Communication Is Key | 10min Thirst | 7min

Block 4 | Voices of the People | Documentary Saturday, October 19th, 4:15pm In My View | 16min Divided | 18min Colour Code | 4min We Build Walls | 10min Medina’s Song | 13min Walled | 22min Salma | 11min

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SHORTS Block 5 | Parental Advisory | Narrative Wednesday, October 16th, 8:10pm Blood Rush | 5min In Other Words | 7min Boogie- Everything’s for Sale | 20min The Infection | 8min Petites Filles | 12min Jane | 16min Urban Scout | 10min

Block 6 | Cheek Splitting | Comedy Thursday, October 17th, 7:45pm Brentwood | 12min Lucky | 11min For Pete’s Sake | 5min Boy Eats Girl | 7min Lady Parts | 10min Phoebe | 9min Unplanned | 12min

No Avocados in the Ghetto | 4min Pozole | 10min

Block 7 | Neither Here Nor There | Narrative Friday, October 18th, 5:20pm Rejectors | 11min Brave Little Army | 6min Emotional Octopus | 14min Tattooed Heart | 10min Sun Valley | 6min Foxx & Wolfe | 12min Gingerbread | 27min I Taste Blood | 3min

Block 8 | American History | Documentary Wednesday, October 16th, 3:30pm Murder in Mobile | 24min Ashes to Ashes | 34min Soul Man | 13min Walk With Pride | 6min

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WORKSHOPS Screenwriting

Filmmaking & Misc.

WRITING FOR THE SCREEN: More Than Just Movies

DIRECTORS PANEL & DISCUSSION

Wed Oct 16th | 1:30pm

Workshop Hall

Workshop Hall

Directors from this years’ Film Festival will bring you into the world of making feature, short and narrative films.

Explores the opportunities and complexities of writing for the modern day screen (theatrical, episodic, online and more.)

Wed Oct 16th | 6:00pm

PRODUCERS PANEL & DISCUSSION

Randall Jahnson (Dudes, The Doors, The Mask of Zorro, Sunset Strip, episodes of Tales from the Crypt.)

Thu Oct 17th | 6:00pm

CREATING STORIES WITH LEGS

Producers from this years’ Film Festival will bring you into the world of making feature, short and narrative films.

Thu Oct 17th | 1:30pm

Workshop Hall

Workshop Hall

PORTLAND FILMMAKING

Storytelling that lives on and on and on. Ways Hollywood creates worlds and character arcs that live past one episode or one film.

Fri Oct 18th | 1:30pm

Bruce Feinstein (GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is not Enough. Writer for NY Times, Vanity Fair.)

Workshop Hall Filmmakers from Portland discuss making films in the region.

Acting BUSINESS OF ACTING: Voice Over Talents Wed Oct 16th | 4:00pm Workshop Hall The voice of Spiderman and 34+ other video games lives in Portland. He runs the biggest ADR/Loop Group outside of LA on the West Coast. Get his very open, sometimes terse, perspective on the business of voiceover with no other agenda.

Mike Vaughn (PBS Kids, Scream: The TV Series, 34+ video games and more.)

CASTING, AGENTS & TALENT MANAGERS Thu Oct 17th | 4:00pm Workshop Hall Working with Portland’s Top Agents Portland’s top talent agents give the details on working with an agency and agent/talent relationships.

Cholee Thompson, Dennis Troutman, Damon Jones

DISTRIBUTION FOR INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS Fri Oct 18th | 4:00pm Workshop Hall Learn from filmmakers and their experiences distributing their film.

FINANCIAL DOMINATION MASTER CLASS Fri Oct 18th | 5:30pm The Exchange WITH CEARA LYNCH What is “financial domination?”

How does it work? Do people really get aroused giving women their money for “no reason?” Ceara Lynch (the star from USE ME, which screens Friday 7:25pm) gives

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WORKSHOPS you a behind-the-scenes peak at a day in the life of a financial dominatrix. In this workshop you’ll learn about her decade plus journey into this fascinating and mysterious kink: what it means, why people like it, practical tips for aspiring financial dominatrix and common misconceptions. This will be a short lecture followed by an open Q&A for inquiring minds.

CINEMATOGRAPHERS POINT OF VIEW Friday Oct 18th | 6:00pm

CROWDFUNDING FILMS Saturday Oct 19th | 3:00pm

Workshop Hall

Workshop Hall

Cinematographers from this years’ Film Festival will bring you into the world of making feature, short and narrative films.

Crowdfunded films from this years’ Film Festival as well as other visiting artists will bring you into the world of raising capital.

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE

PITCHATHON FOR CASH

Saturday Oct 19th | 3:30pm

Workshop Hall

The Exchange

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Toby Froud discusses making the new Netflix series and creating a prequel to the Jim Henson favorite Dark Crystal.

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Saturday Oct 19th | 5:00pm

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FILM INDEX Adolescence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Gingerbread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Right to Harm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

An Affable Devil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

‘Grunt’ Film Project. . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Room Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Ashes to Ashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Hearth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Salma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Ay Mariposa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Here Awhile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Salma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Baby Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Here Awhile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Sanctuary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Bad Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

House of Redeption-Hear Me . . . 22

Seaside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Black Champagne. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

I Taste Blood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Shattered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Blieschow 10min . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

If Not Now, When? . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Sirens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Blood Rush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

In My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Something Round. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open . . . . . . . . . 21

In Other Words. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

The Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

The Infection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Soul Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

International Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Boogie- Everything’s for Sale. . . . 23 Boy Eats Girl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Brave Little Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Standing Up, Falling Down . . . . . 10

Kishi Bashi- Violent Tsunami . . . . 22

Brentwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Sui Generis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Lady Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 23

Bronzed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Suicide Date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Last Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Camino Skies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Sun Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Leakage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Color Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Tattooed Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Let the Bell Ring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Communication Is Key . . . . . . . . . 22

Thirst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Love Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Crackhouse of the Dead. . . . . . . . 19

Lucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Dead man Talking- All Into Gold . 20

Medina’s Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Divided . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Moon’s Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Eagle Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Mr Allan on Saturday. . . . . . . . . . 22

Emotional Octopus . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Murder in Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

FAST HORSE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

No Avocados in the Ghetto . . . . . 23

Fire on the Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Patton Film Project . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

The First & the Last Time. . . . . . . 19

Petites Filles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

First Time Ghost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Phoebe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

For Pete’s Sake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Pozole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

For the girl in coffee Shop . . . . . . 22

Princess of the Row . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Foxx & Wolfe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Proudly We Served. . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Question- Anna Tivel. . . . . . . 20

Gabby Smashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Reckoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Gajah Borneo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Rejectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Get Gone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Rewilding a Mountain . . . . . . . . . 20

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This must be the place. . . . . . . . . 23 Timmy & the Dream Killers . . . . . 23 Unplanned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Urban Scout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Use Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Violent Water. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Walk With Pride. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Walled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Warrior Women . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 21 Water Horse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 We Build Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Where We Began. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Winters Blight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The Worst Thing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Yonlu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Zombies and Indians . . . . . . . . . . 21

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