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COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF EVENTS AND FILMS SPECIAL EVENTS/PROGRAMS Cinema//Care Cinema Unbound March 6 | 3 PM PST Awards Virtual, FREE Where There’s March 4 | 6:45 PM PST Guest programmed by Sundance Film Smoke Drive-In and Virtual Festival’s Gina Duncan, this program March 7 | 12 PM PST reinforces a commitment to care and March 13 | 12 PM PST The Cinema Unbound Awards is an annual community, and how through the Virtual, FREE event headquartered in Portland, OR that programming of independent films at art celebrates internationally- renowned artists, houses, festivals, we can create and sustain a In Where There’s Smoke, writer/director/ trying new things, thinking bigger, and culture of care right where we live. Featuring storytelling pioneer Lance Weiler unravels pushing forward to transform the field and four recent independent films that reflect the secrets of his enigmatic father–a the world. In 2021, we will assemble a small this value both in how the film was made volunteer firefighter and amateur fire scene but mighty band of internationally renowned and within the story itself, the program will photographer–and two devastating fires that artists, creatives and curators working also include a discussion with acclaimed struck the Weiler family in the early 1980s. somewhere in the middle of the Venn filmmakers Debra Granik (Leave No Trace), In the final months of his battle with colon diagram of cinema and unboundedness. Andrew Ahn (Driveways), Loria Limbal cancer, his father invites Lance to interview (Through the Night)and Crystal Kayiza him, and these conversations reignite 30 (See You Next Time) focused on how we as years of wondering… were those fires more artists and audience members can continue than tragic accidents and sustain this care in our new reality. SPECIAL EVENTS/PROGRAMS continued Lore United States | 11 min | 2019 Images of friends and landscapes are cut, fragmented, and reassembled on an overhead projector as hands guide their shape and construction in this film stemming from Hollis Frampton’s “Nostalgia”. The voice tells a story about a not too distant Spectral past, a not too distant ruin, with traces Transmissions: of nostalgia articulated in terms of lore; Poetic Cinema and knowledge and memory passed down and Ghosts of Futures shared not from wistful loss, but as a pastiche Past Persona Tales: Three of rumination, reproduction, and creation. Screening March 5-14 Shorts from Sky Virtual Hopinka Spectral Transmissions: Ghosts of Futures Screening March 5-14 Past is a multimedia event by Donal Virtual Mosher and Mike Palmieri in the style of a 1930s/1940s radio show. In this special Sky Hopinka is a visual artist and filmmaker festival edition of Spectral Transmissions, who is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation a host of filmmakers, writers, and artists and a descendant of the Pachanga Band explore how the past and the future haunt of Luiseño people. This program features us today. three short films of Sky’s, each one utilizing a IF/Then: The Art of different method to document the personal reflections on land, culture, and memories. In the Pitch March 11 | 12:30 PM PST addition to the short films is a pre-recorded Virtual, FREE conversation with Sky and Kathleen Ash- Milby the Curator for Native American Art The Art of the Pitch session deep dives at the Portland Art Museum. This program on best practices in virtual pitching and is co-presented with the Video Data Bank. considerations for post-COVID production funding. Mentors from IF/Then will share The program includes the following shorts: sage advice on preparing your elevator pitch and long-form presentations to gatekeepers. A Closer Look at Visions of an Island Two film teams will be invited to pitch United States | 15 min | 2016 their film live during the panel and receive Improv: A Portland feedback in real-time. An Unangam Tunuu elder describes cliffs Masterclass Short Doc Distribution 101: Since 2017, IF/ March 13 | 6 PM PST and summits, drifting birds, and deserted Then Shorts has supported more than 50 Virtual, FREE shores. A group of students and teachers play and invent games revitalizing their films from around the globe with funding, extensive mentorship, and a strong emphasis Some of Portland’s finest improv talent language. A visitor wanders in a quixotic on multi-platform distribution. IF/Then will gather for this special online event chronicling of earthly and supernal terrain. Director Chloe Gbai and Supervising to celebrate the PIFF screening of For These visions offer glimpses of an island in Producer Caitlin Mae Burke will discuss Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close. the center of the Bering Sea. the initiative’s commitment to broaden Aden & Eric Nepom of Infinite Improv! will distribution opportunities for short lead this exploration of some of Close’s documentaries, even during the pandemic, highly influential ideas, featuring performers Fainting Spells United States | 11 min | 2018 and will be joined by IF/Then alumni from a number of Portland’s acclaimed to discuss their distribution trajectories, improv theaters. Told through recollections of youth, learning, challenges, and triumphs. lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant— used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted. FUTURE/FUTURE PROGRAM Highlighting boundary-pushing new cinema from emerging filmmakers, PIFF’s Future/future competition represents some of the most exciting new voices in global cinema. The selected films come from around the world and exemplify the theme of unboundedness. The competition winner, selected by our jury, will win a $1,000 prize. A Machine to Live In American Thief Directed by Yoni Goldstein, Meredith Zielke Directed by Miguel Silveira Brazil, United States | Documentary, Sci-fi | United States | Thriller, Drama | 2020 Sugar Daddy 2020 | English Subtitles Directed by Wendy Morgan A teen hacker seeking revenge for his Canada | Drama, Comedy | 2021 A Machine to Live In is a hybrid father’s murder becomes a pawn in a plot to documentary linking the cosmic power derail the 2016 presidential elections. When a struggling musician can’t afford to structures of the state to the mystical follow her dreams, she signs up to a sugar architecture of cults and utopian cities in the daddy website where rich older men pay to remote hinterlands of Brazil. go on dates with younger women. A Rifle and A Bag Everything in the Directed by Cristina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi, End A Kaddish for Bernie Arya Rothe Directed by Mylissa Fitzsimmons Madoff 90 min | India, Romania, Italy, Qatar | 76 min | United States | Drama | 2021 Directed by Alicia J. Rose Documentary | 2020 | English Subtitles United States | Drama, Musical, Fantasy | Stranded in a small Icelandic village during 2021 A young Indian couple of surrendered Earth’s final days, a man seeks solace in the communist rebels (Naxalites) is fighting for brief human connections he encounters. A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff tells the story their children’s future. of Madoff and the system that allowed him to function for decades through the eyes of musician/poet Alicia Jo Rabins, who watches the financial crash from her 9th floor studio in an abandoned office building on Wall Street. A Son Identifying Features Directed by Mehdi M. Barsaoui Directed by Fernanda Valadez France, Lebanon, Tunisia, Qatar | Drama | 100 min | Mexico | Mystery, Drama, Thriller 2019 | English Subtitles | 2020 | English Subtitles A couple’s world collapses when their son is A mother travels across Mexico in search of shot, and the father discovers he’s not the her son who authorities say died while trying boy’s biological parent. to cross the border into the United States. VIRTUAL FEATURES 499 Alberto and the Directed by Rodrigo Reyes 89 min | History, Documentary | Mexico, Adventures of a Concrete Jungle United States | 2020 | English Subtitles Directed by Chris Shimojima Mathematician 105 min | United States | Adventure, Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, Directed by Thor Klein Comedy, Drama | 2020 499 recreates Hernan Cortez’s epic 103 min | Germany, Poland, UK | Drama, journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Historical Fiction | 2020 Adventurous digital nomad Alberto Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of Buenaventura becomes absurdly stuck in contemporary Mexico City. The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant New York City. To find a way out, he must and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved zigzag across the 5 boroughs, dealing with to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the various groups of diverse characters that difficult losses of family and friends all while complicate the process and make him re- helping to create the hydrogen bomb and examine his unattached lifestyle. the first computer. 200 Meters Directed by Armeen Nayfeh Palestine, Jordan, Qatar, Italy, Sweden | Drama, Socio-Political | 2020 | English Subtitles Barbie’s Kenny Viewable for 48 hours only: March 6-8 Air Conditioner Director: Zachary Ray Sherman Directed by Fradique 92 min | United States | Drama | 2021 Mustafa and his wife Salwa live 200 meters 73 min | Angola | Dark Comedy, Surreal | apart in villages separated by the wall. One 2020 | English Subtitles Kenny, a struggling actor in Los Angeles, day he gets a call every parent dreads: feels his life turn upside down when his birth his son has had an accident. A 200 meter When the air-conditioners in the city mother unexpectedly arrives at his doorstep distance becomes a 200 kilometer odyssey, of Luanda mysteriously began to fall, after having not been in touch for over a as Mustafa, left with no choice, attempts to Matacedo and Zezinha embark on a mission decade. smuggle himself to the other side of the wall. to retrieve the boss’s AC by the end of the day.