APRIL/MAY 2014 MAD ROMANCE: THE FILMS OF LEOS CARAX NORTHWEST TRACKING School of Film SPRING CLASSES & WORKSHOPS SPECIAL SCREENINGS JUNE 16 – THE APU AUGUST 22 TRILOGY PERMIT NO. 664 NO. PERMIT PORTLAND, OR PORTLAND, PAID PORTLAND, OR 97205 OR PORTLAND, 1219 SW PARK AVENUE PARK SW 1219 U.S. POSTAGE U.S. NON-PROFIT ORG NON-PROFIT NORTHWEST FILM CENTER FILM NORTHWEST STAFF WELCOME NORTHWEST FILM CENTER DIRECTOR: BILL FOSTER EDUCATION DIRECTOR: ELLEN THOMAS FILMMAKER SERVICES MANAGER: THOMAS PHILLIPSON EXHIBITION PROGRAM ASSISTANT: HARRY & ROSE MOYER MORGEN RUFF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES & PUBLIC RELATIONS & MARKETING MANAGER: NORTHWEST FILM CENTER LAURA BARTROFF SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS SCHOOL OF FILM PUBLIC RELATIONS & MARKETING ASSISTANT: 934 SW SALMON STREET NICK BRUNO PREMIERE SPONSORS MEMBERSHIP & SPONSORSHIP MANAGER: ALL SCREENINGS TAKE PLACE, KRISTY CONRAD UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR: AT THE SOPHIA MACKENZIE NORTHWEST FILM CENTER EDUCATION PROGRAMS MANAGER: ANNA CRANDALL CHAMPION SPONSORS WHITSELL AUDITORIUM EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES MANAGER: PORTLAND ART MUSEUM DAVE HANAGAN James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation 1219 SW PARK AVENUE ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR: KAREN WENNSTROM MAILING ADDRESS (FOR ALL) EDUCATION SERVICES COORDINATORS: PRODUCING SPONSORS 1219 SW PARK AVENUE STEPHANIE HOUGH PORTLAND, OR 97205 ANDREW PRICE MILES SPRIETSMA EDUCATION PROGRAM ASSISTANTS: FELISHA LEDESMA HUBLEY CLASSICS P.15 HAZEL MALONE MATT SMITH The Lamb-Baldwin Henry Lea Hillman JARRATT TAYLOR Foundation Foundation HEAD THEATRE MANAGER & PROJECTIONIST: MELINDA KOWALSKA ALASKA AIRLINES AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS THEATRE STAFF: KATIE BURKART LILY HUDSON TWO LIVES / Germany / George Maas, Judith Kaufmann ERIK MCCLANAHAN BEST NARRATIVE AWARD ARIKA OGLESBEE ALEX SMITH FINDING VIVIAN MAIER / US / John Maloof, Charlie Siskel ILANA SOL LISA TRAN BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD AND BEST NEW DIRECTOR AWARD VERONICA VICHIT-VADAKAN NORTHWEST TRACKING LARISA ZIMMERMAN ERNEST AND CELESTINE / France / Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner PAGE 3 OFFICE INTERNS & VOLUNTEERS: BEST ANIMATED FEATURE AWARD MELINA COUMAS MAD ROMANCE: ANDREW HASKELL GRANDPA AND ME AND A HELICOPTER TO HEAVEN / Sweden / Asa Blanck, Johan Palmgren THE FILMS OF LEOS CARAX JOHN PINNEY BEST SHORT FILM AWARD PAGE 4 MEGAN STUMP IAN WESTMORLAND ONE LAST HUG AND A FEW SMOOCHES: THREE DAYS AT GRIEF CAMP SPECIAL SCREENINGS MARK ZUIDERVELD Portland / Irene Taylor Brodsky PAGES 5, 6, 15 & 16 THEATRE VOLUNTEERS: BEST OREGON SHORT AWARD YASUE ARAI SCHOOL OF FILM JEAN BELLINGER An expanded list of Awards available at: festivals.nwfilm.org/piff37/awards PAGES 7 – 14 LIS COOPER JEANNE DEVON FILM CAMP GABRIELLE FOULKES FOR KIDS + TEENS CONNIE GUIST CENTER PULLOUT DOUGLAS HANES PAT HOLMES JESSE IIAMS-HAUSER LEAH ISAAC MISSION INGEBORG MUSSCHE The Northwest Film Center is a regional media arts resource and service organization founded to encourage the GENERAL ADMISSION KAY OLSEN NANDINI RANGANATHAN study, appreciation, and utilization of the moving image arts; to foster their artistic and professional excellence; and $9 GENERAL LAUREL SAGER HANNAH VAN LOON $8 PAM MEMBERS, STUDENTS, SENIORS KRISTEN WALKER to help create a climate in which they may flourish. $6 SILVER SCREEN CLUB FRIENDS AND MANY MORE… SPECIAL ADMISSION PRICES AS NOTED. PRESENTING The Film Center’s year-round exhibition program surveys the full range of cinema past and present. From classic ALL PROGRAMS ARE SINGLE ADMISSION, PORTLAND ART MUSEUM BOARD OF UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. TRUSTEES CHAIR: silent film to the avant-garde, thematic series, director retrospectives, national cinema surveys, visiting artists, WILLIAM WHITSELL SILVER SCREEN CLUB DIRECTORS, and the latest in regional, independent, and foreign film, the Film Center’s programs open the world of diverse PRODUCERS, BENEFACTORS VICE CHAIR: & SUSTAINERS RECEIVE FREE RICHARD LOUIS BROWN moving image expression. ADMISSION TO ALL REGULAR ADMISSION PROGRAMS, SECRETARY: INCLUDING FESTIVALS. LAURA MEIER TEACHING TREASURER: SEATS FOR ADVANCE TICKET HOLDERS JIM WINKLER The Film Center’s School of Film is one of the oldest and largest community-based media arts education AND SILVER SCREEN CLUB MEMBERS ARE HELD UNTIL 10 MINUTES BEFORE NW FILM CENTER COMMITTEE: programs in the country. The School of Film offers intensive hands-on classes and workshops in film production SHOWTIME, AT WHICH POINT ANY DON VAN WART, CHAIRMAN UNFILLED SEATS ARE RELEASED LINDA ANDREWS for adults and youth, taught by faculty members who are accomplished working media artists. Students may earn TO THE PUBLIC. MARK FRANDSEN MARY HINCKLEY the Film Center’s non-degree Certificate in Film as well as obtain optional college credit through partnering BOX OFFICE OPENS ONE-HALF BOB WARREN higher education institutions. HOUR BEFORE SHOWTIME. ALICE WIEWEL PORTLAND ART MUSEUM In K-12 classrooms, after-school, and community settings, in partnership with many other organizations, SCRIP BOOKS: MARILYN H. & DR. ROBERT B. the School of Film advances media literacy and expression as core skills for the next generation through $50 (10 TICKETS) PAMPLIN JR. DIRECTOR: BRIAN FERRISO screenings, production camps, and other innovative programs and collaborations. ADVANCE PURCHASE AT THE NORTHWEST FILM CENTER BOX OFFICE. NW FILM CENTER CORRESPONDENCE TO: SUPPORTING FILMMAKERS AND COMMUNITY NORTHWEST FILM CENTER In addition to exhibition and teaching opportunities, the Film Center circulates traveling exhibition programs IDENTIFICATION STATEMENT 1219 SW PARK AVENUE featuring work by regional artists, administers the Oregon Media Arts Fellowship, offers fiscal agent services PORTLAND, OR 97205 PUBLICATION TITLE: NORTHWEST FILM CENTER for independent producers in need of non-profit sponsorship, provides low-cost equipment access, and engages EMAIL: [email protected] ISSUE DATE: APRIL 2014 PHONE: 503-221-1156 in consulting services to community producers and organizations. 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PAGE 02 NORTHWEST FILM CENTER APRIL/MAY 2014 503-221-1156 NWFILM.ORG NORTHWEST TRACKING OPEN ROAD A STANDING STILL Our Northwest Tracking programs showcase the work of indepen- dent filmmakers living and working in the Northwest—Alaska, APR 23 27 WED 7 PM, SUN 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington—whose work reflects the vibrant cinematic culture of the region. Whether WINTER IN THE BLOOD MISSOULA, MT 2013 presenting single artist retrospectives, new features, documen- taries, or inspired collections of short works, Northwest Tracking DIRECTORS: ALEX SMITH, ANDREW SMITH offers testimony to the creativity and talent in our flourishing “True to the tough, lyrical, magical spirit of James Welch’s media arts community. classic novel of Native American life, this hauntingly beauti- ful movie follows a young Blackfoot Indian’s alcohol-fueled search for his wife, his rifle, his identity—and salvation. APR 3 THURS 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST WINTER IN THE BLOOD portrays a world that is too often ICH HUNGER overlooked, that of modern Native American life. Using the TACOMA 2013 prose of James Welch, the film takes an unflinching and DIRECTOR: ISAAC OLSEN realistic look at some of the troubles that this community Tacoma writer/director/photographer/editor/animator Isaac Olsen’s faces through the lens of this individual. It’s also a treat to expressionistic art film follows the exploits of an elusive “creature boy” see Native American actors, too often relegated to nameless who terrorizes a rural German township. This creature, naive but mur- parts in period dramas, portray such nuanced and compli- derous, spends his days lurking in the woods and satisfying his lust for cated characters. The Smith brothers have created a truly human flesh as an inspector from Frankfurt sets out to hunt him down. beautiful and unique film that deserves to be seen; a creative Olsen employs a visual cornucopia of moods, textures, and themes accomplishment not only of filmmaking but of capturing this BLUEBERRY SOUP with miniatures, animation, water tank photography, and other tech- world.”—Indiewire. (105 mins.) Director Andrew Smith will lead an audience Q&A following the screening on April 23. niques. With an international cast of non-actors speaking in German MAY 14 WED 7 PM—VISITING ARTISTS with English subtitles, this mostly black-and-white nod to German expressionism moves closer to the field of abstraction and transforms MAY 1 THURS 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST OPEN SCREENING a simple narrative into a true sensory experience. (70 mins.) Director ONE LAST HUG DIRECTORS: WOMEN Isaac Olsen will lead an audience Q&A following the screening. The Film Center partners with Women in Film Portland to AND A FEW SMOOCHES: present an all-women filmmaker edition of our bimonthly APR 10 THURS 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST THREE DAYS AT GRIEF CAMP Open Screening program. If you identify as female and have ROMANTIC MACABREDY: PORTLAND 2014 recent work you would like to share, e-mail thomas@nwfilm.