Name: Portland Women’s Film Festival
Posted: djfilms
Type: Film festival
Where: Hollywood Theatre
When: May 15, 2008 7:00pm
Details:
Sour Apple Productions, in partnership with Film Action Oregon, is proud to present the 2008 Portland Women’s Film Festival Schedule of Events. The mission of the Portland Women’s Film Festival is to showcase the very best contemporary international independent films made by women, promote and create opportunities for women working in all areas of the film industry, and educate the greater community through filmmaker panels and hands-on workshops.
Spanning May 15-18, and held at Portland, Oregon’s historic Hollywood Theatre, POW Fest will throw a rockin’ kick-off party at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel, exhibit select women-made movies, moderate several exciting filmmaker panels, host an expo of women-owned and served businesses, offer a day-long screenwriting workshop, and present a variety of emPOWering Q&As with the numerous filmmakers who will be in attendance. In addition, the festival will spotlight a retrospective of the Guest of Honor, female indie director pioneer Allison Anders’, award-winning feature film work, including Gas Food Lodging (Co-Presented by Portland State University) and Border Radio (Presented by Video Vérité).
The four days of screenings will include: a Local Filmmaker Night, featuring Person, Place or Thing, directed by Elle Martini, and starring Zoe McLellan (Dirty, Sexy Money) as a drifter who finds comfort in her invisibility living on the streets; a “Don’t Bring The Kids” Shorts Program, featuring Why We Wax, co-directed by Kimberly M. Wetherell and Amy Axelson, about the motivation to rip out the hair “down there”; a Family Day, featuring a Young Filmmaker’s Program as well as the feature documentary, JUMP!, directed by Helen Hood Scheer, about competitive jump roping; a “Many Faces of Women” Shorts Program, featuring Like a Ship in the Night, by Melissa Thompson, about Irish women who have to travel to England to have abortions as it is illegal in their country; an Animation Series sponsored by LAIKA, featuring Zoologic, by Nicole Mitchell, about a fat, little penguin that threatens the absolute rule of a fussy zookeeper; the closing night feature, Cake Eaters, directed by Mary Stuart Masterson, a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected families coming to terms with love in the face of loss; and much, much more!
Please visit www.powfest.com to see the complete four-day schedule of screenings (including titles and directors) and events.
POW Fest is produced by Sour Apple Productions in partnership with Film Action Oregon. **