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Lez Bomb | Narrative The Chunta | Documentary A still closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving only to have In a small town in Mexico, once a year, men transform into women and become the her coming out efforts thwarted by the unexpected arrival of her male roommate. Chuntá. Follow two gender-bending gangs of dancers as they face off in a struggle USA | 90min | Director: Jenna Laurenzo in attendance between queer identity and powerful traditions. Portland/Mexico | 62min | Director: Genevieve Roundané in attendance

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CLOSING NIGHT

When Jeff Tried to Save the World | Narrative Inventing Tomorrow | Documentary When Jeff discovers that the bowling alley he manages is being sold, he must do Meet passionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting- everything he can to save the place he’s come to call home. edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats – found right in their own USA | 94min | Director: Kendall Goldberg in attendance | John Heder in attendance backyards – while navigating the doubts and insecurities that mark adolescence. USA | 105min | Director: Laura Nix in attendance closing night halloween party & Awards Ceremony Frankenstein’s 200th Anniversary Celebrity jury in Attendance

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FEATURE NARRATIVE Joshua A. Foster – Cinetic Media Executive Joshua A. Foster is a graduate of the prestigious NYU Tisch MFA graduate film program and earned an IMBA graduate degree at the University of South Carolina. Joshua produced or directed sixteen short films while at NYU Tisch. He has over twenty years of Joshexperience Foster in the financialPatrick sector Harrison trading futuresAisha contracts, Tyler M&A Lesli Klainberg A graduate of the prestigious NYU Tisch MFA graduate Patrick Harrison joined the Academy of Motion Aisha Tyler is an award-winning director, actor, New Lesli Klainberg is the Executive Director of the Film film program and earned an IMBA graduate degree Pictures Arts and Sciences as Director, New York York Times bestselling author, Emmy-winning television Society of Lincoln Center. Lesli is also an award- atand the University managing of South Carolina. Joshua high produced net Programs worth and Membership clients’ in 2001. assets.He is responsible Currently, host standup comedian he and podcaster. resides She voices winning producer and director whose documentaries or directed sixteen short films while at NYU Tisch. for the creation and implementation of all Academy Lana Kane on F/X’s Archer, hosts CW’s Whose Line is have screened at film festivals such as Berlin, Currently,in New he resides York in New York CityCity working working as an programs as on the an East Coastexecutive including weekly official for Cineticit Anyway?, created Media the hit podcast in Girl on Guy, and is Sundance, Outfest and Frameline, and have been executive for Cinetic Media in the film finance and membership screenings, Academy at Metrograph a series regular on CBS’ Criminal Minds. Her feature broadcast on networks including Cinemax, AMC, A&E, productionthe fil department.m finance He most recently representedand production film series, the annual department.Spotlight on Crafts film series, Hedirectorial most debut, the recently psychological thriller AXIS, The Independent Film Channel (IFC), WE and PBS. Prior Cinetic Media on the Ethan Hawke directed film, Blaze, Academy Tributes, educational outreach and the won multiple film festival awards and is available to her current role as Executive Director, Lesli served andrepresented he was the UPM for the feature, Cinetic Lost Holiday, shotMedia annual Oscar® on Night the New EthanYork celebrations. Hawke everywhere directed now on VOD. Afi Sanlm, Francisco native, Ms. as FSLC’s Managing Director and the producer of the in Washington D.C. Tyler holds a degree in government from Dartmouth New York Film Festival. From 2008 through 2011, she Blaze, and he was the UPM for the feature, LostCollege. Holiday, shot in served as Executive Director of NewFest, the NYC FEATUREWashington DOCUMENTARY D.C. LGBT Film Festival.

Gingger Shankar Monica Castillo Charisma Carpenter Steven Prince Gingger Shankar is a singer, violinist and Monica Castillo is a writer and critic based in New Charisma Carpenter made an indelible mark on the cult Steve Prince brings over 25 years of experience as composer, and was born into one of the world’s York City. Her work has appeared in The New York series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” After three seasons an actor, writer, and producer to his role at TPSC most acclaimed and influential musical families. Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, on “Buffy,” Carpenter joined co-star David Boreanaz on Films. His prolific acting credits include recurring Her accomplishments include working with top RogerEbert.com, Remezcla, The Guardian, Variety, NPR the spin-off “Angel,” staying with the show through its roles on PRISON BREAK and FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS producers and film composers including Mel Gibson, and The Boston Globe. She completed her master’s at fourth season. She went on to recur in “Charmed” and as well as roles in several feature films including the The Smashing Pumpkins, Trent Reznor, Mike Nichols, the University of Southern California as the school’s “Veronica Mars” and guest star on numerous series, recent Golden Globe winning film BOYHOOD. Before Mike Myers, and James Newton Howard. In 2011 first film critic fellow. including “CSI,” “Burn Notice,” “Supernatural,” “Blue joining TPSC Films in 2012, Steve teamed up with she was chosen as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s Bloods,” “Sons of Anarchy” and “Lucifer.” Carpenter Brian Oliver and the Thompson family to create Cross ‘25 New Faces to Watch’, as well as becoming a has also segued into movies, with a supporting role Creek Pictures. During his time as Vice President member of the Advisory Board for the Sundance Film as Lacey in “The Expendables” and its sequel, “The of Development, CCP financed and produced BLACK Festival. Expendables 2.” Carpenter also served as host and SWAN, THE WOMAN IN BLACK, with THE IDES OF producer of Investigation Discovery’s “Surviving Evil,” MARCH next in the pipeline. a series featuring survivors who fought back against their attackers. 8 These hand-picked jury members will judge the competition films (pg 10 – 11) as well as films in the Portalnd and Shorts Category. Attend a film and participate in the People’s Choice Vote!

PORTLAND FOCUS

Anna Van Valin Jeffrey Poitier Sharry Flaherty Matt Coatsworth Anna Van Valin is an accomplished creative strategist, Jeffrey Poitier (Producer) was born in Nassau, Sharry Flaherty is a seasoned and well-known film A Toronto native, Matt grew up playing in punk bands innovator and performer, whose unique blend of artistic Bahamas into a long-established family, which spans producer and acquisitions agent. While she has carved and shooting short films. After researching California’s expertise and business acumen have allowed her to more than ten generations in the islands (and whose a great reputation in the horror and thriller genres, weather patterns, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue forge a singular path in the entertainment industry. most famous product is Jeffrey’s uncle Sidney). He Sharry has proven she can easily handle a plethora filmmaking. He worked at Lakeshore, Odd Lot and Anna joined the Strategy team at 20th Century Fox in is the director of the documentary VOICES and an of titles and special interests including drams, Sci-fi, Lionsgate before joining United Talent Agency as 2015, where she has developed and launched multiple actor (most recently in THE BUTLER). Through his own and faith-based films. Her resume is filled with a a coordinator in 2013. He was promoted shortly fan-centric initiatives leveraging Fox’s 100 years of production company, he develops documentaries and decade of experience in the industry and she has been thereafter and has been an agent in the Production/ unforgettable films. She believes that embracing new narrative films for theatrical and television, and is instrumental in the production and distribution of a Lit crossover world ever since. He works closely with technology while honoring traditional storytelling currently in production on a documentary about his number of films. directors, producers and actors; pairing them up with methods is the key to establishing intimacy and loyalty famous family. visionary cinematographers and designers to help with film audiences. magic come to life. SHORTS

Chris Williams Eva Cristina Calderón Cholee Thompson Shira Dubrovner An extremely versatile performer in film, television Eva Cristina Calderón was born in Mexico City, Mexico Cholee Thompson, the owner & President of Ryan Shira Dubrovner is the Founder and Festival Director of and on stage, Chris is no stranger to the entertainment and graduated from the University of Baja California Artists and has been in & around the fashion, the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, is an award-winning arena both on and off camera in both comedy and with a bachelors degree in International Relations. She modeling, and talent industry since she was a young stage director and film editor. She is currently the drama. Film credits include the “The World’s Fastest is the Host and co-creator of local Spanish tv show on girl. She stepped out from in front of the camera in Artistic Director of the Mammoth Lakes Repertory Indian” playing Tina, a transvestite opposite Sir Univision Portland geared towards the empowerment 2009 when she took over Ryan Artists Inc. This year Theatre where she produces a full season of arts Anthony Hopkins “The Joneses” opposite Demi Moore of women and on wellness, a role that she combines marks Ryan Artists 37th year as a full service modeling, programming and has worked with such stars as Beau as well as a lead in the classic comedy “Dodgeball: with her passion as a life coach and her love for the acting, styling and voice over agency in the Pacific Bridges, Robert Picardo and Linda Purl. Dubrovner also A True Underdog Story”. As for television, he is in power of storytelling combined with media. A proud Northwest. Both SAG and AFTRA franchised, They directs plays in Los Angeles and all over the Western his third season recurring as Hoover on HBO “Silicon mother of two girls and considers herself blessed to proudly represent the best union and non-union talent States. Valley” and also on the critically acclaimed FX how live in a city that embraces the unique. ranging all ages and ethnicities. Ryan Artists strives to “Better Things”. give their clients all that they need from one agency.

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Alaska is a Drag | Narrative Mail Order Monster | Narrative Porcupine Lake | Narrative Leo’s dreams of superstardom are hard fought working Unable to move on from her mother’s death, a girl A story of bravery and the secret world of girls during a in a fish cannery. He fights to survive. When a new boy and her robot-like monster run away from her father’s fateful summer when adulthood has not yet arrived, but moves to town–he & his twin sister are forced to confront new marriage. childhood is quickly vanishing. the reason they’re stuck in AK. USA | 88min | Director: Paulina Lagudi in attendance Canada | 84min | Director: Ingrid Veninger in attendance USA | 88min | Director: Shaz Bennett in attendance

Rich Kids | Narrative Rust Creek | Narrative Touch Me Not | Narrative Rich Kids is a film that sympathetically views the modern When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong A brave and raw look at bodies, intimacy, and empathy, exploring day challenges of economic disparities, gentrification, and turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for the private lives and sexual desires of four people with an displacement faced through the lens of Latino and Afro- survival in rural Kentucky. approach that blurs the line between fiction and documentary. Latino American youth. USA | 108min | Director: Jen McGowan in attendance Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France USA | 97min | Director: Laura Somers in attendance 125min | Director: Adina Pintilie

10 Competition winners will be announced on Saturday and winners will screen on Sunday. FEATURE DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Amigo Skate, Cuba | Documentary Behind the Curve | Documentary Believe the Beat | Documentary Amigo Skate, Cuba uncovers the county’s illegal Delve into the outlandish world of Flat Earthers—people This tender rites of passage tale follows a crew of underground skate culture in a story of cooperation who honestly believe that the world is flat, and that a Brazilian street dancers. As they take their dance from overcoming culture clash—and a universal quest for massive conspiracy is keeping us from the truth. city park to global stage, a community rises and a young freedom on four little wheels. USA | 96min | Director: Daniel J. Clark in attendance filmmaker finds her voice. USA and Cuba | 72min | Director: Vanesa Wilkey-Escobar in attendance Portland | 78min | Director: Jocelyn Edelstein in attendance

Campesino | Documentary Edge of Success | Documentary The Most Dangerous Year | Documentary An amateur photographer documents for the last 15 years The Edge of Success examines the epidemic of teenage In 2016 a group of Washington State families with the disappearing way of life of Cuba’s tobacco farmers, suicide that has hit hundreds of communities across the transgender kids joined the fight against a wave of forging friendships and capturing dignity through his United States, going deep into the recent teenage suicide discriminatory anti-transgender legislation that swept the surprisingly intimate pictures. clusters in Palo Alto, California. nation and their home state. Cuba | 89min | Director: Mia Tate in attendance USA | 70min | Director: Liza Meak and Kathryn Basiji in attendance USA | 88min | Director: Vlada Knowlton in attendance

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Anthem of a Teenage Prophet | Narrative Armed | Narrative For Izzy | Narrative Funny Story | Narrative A small town-teen predicts his friend’s Chief (Mario Van Peebles) is a former US Using documentary-style footage and A tragic comedy about a well-intentioned death with startling accuracy and is Marshall who has fallen on hard times after animation, FOR IZZY tells a sweet, father who inadvertently wreaks havoc on labelled the “Prophet of Death.” One thing he led his team on a raid that went horribly empowering story through an Asian- the life of his estranged daughter. he didn’t see coming? Falling in love - with wrong. Soon he learns that there may be a American lens about a queer addict who USA | 84min | Director: Michael J. Gallagher in his best friend’s girl. larger conspiracy at hand. befriends a lonely autistic woman. attendance Canada | 104min | Director: Robin Hays in attendance USA | 118 | Director: Mario Van Peebles in attendance USA | 84min | Director: Alex Chu in attendance

Ghost Light | Narrative Little Faith | Narrative Meerkat Moonship | Narrative Parallel Chords | Narrative When a disgruntled and arrogant Marin is a young French woman living A timid young girl suddenly finds that’s A young violinist struggles to break free understudy tempts fate by uttering the in New York City who has suffered a she’s the only one left with a cursed from her pianist father in order to find forbidden name of the “Scottish King” on miscarriage. Growing increasingly numb, family name. Her only hope of breaking her own voice. This music driven drama stage, the sorcery of the Bard’s witches she finds herself disconnected from her the dreaded curse comes in the shape of a explores issues of consent and control from overwhelms the production leading body, boyfriend and family. rickety, make-shift moonship. a female artist’s perspective. to chaos. USA | 93min | Director: Milena Lurie in attendance South Africa | 96min | Director: Hanneke Schutte USA | 98min | Director: Catherine Dudley-Rose in USA | 102min | Director: John Stimpson in attendance attendance

12 Carefully curated, these full-length narrative films deliver on the promise and potential of When are these films playing? independent film in big ways. Covering every genre, the films you’ll see here will definitely Find out at pdxff.com or in our leave a mark. printed schedule.

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PRESENTED BY SHORELIGHT PICTURES

Poor Jane | Narrative The Turn Out | Narrative Two in the Bush | Narrative Unintended | Narrative Another man humiliates Jane’s husband at Alienated from his family, a trucker An unconventional romantic comedy about Lea, drug dependant and haunted by a Christmas party and Jane decides she no encounters an underage prostitute at dungeons, a fish named Archimedes, and nightmares, returns to her childhood home longer loves him. She says she’s going to a local truck stop and discovers that the many forms that love takes. to face the possible reality of having killed Target, but instead checks into a hotel and he is an unwitting participant in a sex USA | 97min | Director: Laura Madalinski in attendance a boy when she was 12 years old. stops answering her phone. trafficking ring. USA | 92min | Director: Anja Murmann in attendance USA | 88min | Director: Katie Orr in attendance USA | 80min | Director: Pearl Gluck in attendance

What They Had | Narrative A Private War | Narrative Two time Oscar winner Hilary Swank, two Three years after Typhoon Haiyan, the time Emmy winner Blythe Danner, Oscar Pablos have rebuilt their seaside home in nominee Robert Forster, and two time Tacloban. Their slow recovery is shaken Oscar nominee Michael Shannon star in up by two awkward Canadian volunteers this intimate family drama about a woman planting trees in the community. who returns home to help her Alzheimer’s- Canada/Philippines | 81min | Director: Sean Devlin afflicted mother, while also grappling with her own past. USA | 101min | Director: Elizabeth Chomko

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And Then They Came for Us | Documentary By Any Means Necessary | Documentary Dons of Disco | Documentary Elephant Path | Documentary Featuring George Takei and others, A social justice documentary exploring A 1980s lip-syncing scandal escalates Against a backdrop of natural beauty and this important film reveals how the why the NYPD routinely uses deadly force into a bitter war between an American human violence, an American biologist, a incarceration of Japanese Americans during against non-violent minor offenders without photographer and an Italian popstar. Who Bayaka tracker, a Bantu eco-guard, and an WWII was one of the worst violations of receiving any punishment beyond losing is the “true” artist behind Den Harrow: the Israeli security contractor unite around the constitutional rights in US history. vacation days. face or the voice? last forest elephants in CAR. USA | 50min | Directors: Abby Ginzberg and USA | 53min | Director: Damian Kudelka in attendance USA | 86min | Director: Jonathan Sutak in attendance USA | 52min | Director: Todd McGrain in attendance Ken Schneider in attendance

Fatherhood | Documentary Feminists: What Were Hiro’s Table | Documentary Incarcerated Rhythm | Documentary Young people from Memphis, LA, NYC They Thinking | Documentary Hiro’s Table is a portrait of Japanese Six men joined a modern dance and London talk about absent fathers and A photo-book from the ’70s is brought master chef Hiroji Obayashi and his wife rehabilitation program, the only one of perform music videos of songs about them. to life. Some of the women who were Yasuyo over a sixteen-year year span as its kind in the US. Now free, they have to Then we meet some absent fathers, and photographed during feminism’s second they managed the day to day operation of navigate old relationships, jobs and decide find an innovative way forward. wave return to be interviewed about the era their LA restaurant Hirozen Gourmet. whether to continue dancing or move on. USA/UK | 75min | Director: Ben Gregor in attendance and their experiences. Japan | 55min | Director: Lynn Hamrick in attendance USA | 79min | Director: Indrani Kopal USA | 86min | Director: Johanna Demetrakas in attendance

14 With fearless directors and unforgettable subjects, this year’s slate of feature-length When are these films playing? documentary films expand our perspective and illuminate modern truths. Find out at pdxff.com or in our printed schedule.

The Interpreters | Documentary Letter From Massanjia | Narrative Stay Human | Documentary Wajd: Songs of Separation | Documentary Considered traitors to their countries, When an American mom discovers an SOS Michael Franti reflects on his own personal Wajd offers a window into the lives of and not always trusted by their American note stashed in a package from Kmart, she journey facing adversity as a child, three Syrian musicians turned refugees. employers, interpreters risk being killed never imagines it will lead to the closure struggling to find his voice as a musician, Intimate interviews, bittersweet melodies, while they wait to be relocated. of Masanjia, China’s most notorious labor and how he came to find inspiration through and poetic pre-war imagery weave together USA | 78min | Directors: Andrés Caballero, Sofian Khan camp. six stories of extraordinary changemakers stories of survival and longing. in attendance Canada | 76 min | English Mandarin | Partial Subtitles from the Philippines to South Africa. Canada | 87min | Director: Amar Chebib in attendance Director: Leon Lee in attendance USA | 94min | Director: Michael Franti

We Are the Menstruators | Documentary We Carry It Within Us | Documentary 2e2: Teaching the Twice At the height of her fame and fortune, In Denmark emancipation is often told as Exceptional | Documentary celebrity Chef Nadia G makes a shocking giving the enslaved their freedom in 1848. Follow the teachers of Bridges Academy decision: to give it all up to start a feminist In US Virgin Islands stories are told about in Los Angeles as they develop innovative punk band. This is a story about the cruelty of slavery and local heroes fighting strategies to engage and educate the American Dream, in reverse. and challenging the Danes. unique minds of highly gifted and talented USA | 96min | Director: Nadia Giosia in attendance Denmark | 67min | Director: Helle Stenum in students with learning disabilities or attendance differences. USA | 77min | Director: Thomas Ropelewski in attendance

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Believe the Beat | Documentary Karen Doesn’t Dream | Narrative Little Star | Narrative Living While Dying | Documentary This tender rites of passage tale follows a A listless young woman, Karen, becomes The road trip hits a rough patch as Scott A life- affirming documentary on how to crew of Brazilian street dancers. As they addicted to ‘sleep tapes’, bizarre VHS and his older brother Kirk grow farther live with the fear of death by living life to take their dance from city park to global recordings of people sleeping. As she apart. Scott remembers a simpler time its fullest. stage, a community rises and a young delves deeper into her dependency, her life when they were close. Portland | 45min | Director: Cathy Zheutlin in filmmaker finds her voice. unravels in dark and unexpected ways. USA | 87min | Director: Tamir Rawlings in attendance attendance Portland | 78min | Director: Jocelyn Edelstein in Portland | 108min | Director: Zach Huckaby in attendance attendance

Pretty Broken | Narrative Three Days of Glory | Documentary Trouble With Wolves | Documentary A young woman reconnects with her Explore never before filmed events and The Gray Wolf’s triumphant return to family after her father goes missing in follow a colorful cast of winemakers Yellowstone has divided America. From the Himalayas. Convinced he’s still alive, through the brutal 2016 season, learning hunters and ranchers to biologists and she plans to go to Everest and bring him how Burgundy became the epicenter wine wildlife specialists involved, this film home herself. and the pinnacle of wine celebration. reveals what’s really going on out West. Portland | 106min | Director: Brett Eichenberger in Portland | 72min | Director: David Baker and USA | 57min | Director: Collin Monda in attendance attendance Scott Wright in attendance

16 This year’s slate of Portland films shines a light on the diverse population of the City of Roses, When are these films playing? with its specific character and unique cultural perspectives. Find out at pdxff.com or in our printed schedule.

TUES, OCT 23 – SUN, OCT 28When | 11:30AM are these AT films POWELL’S playing? Buy Tickets at pdxff.com Find out at pdxff.com or in our printed schedule. 17 LATINX SPOTLIGHT

Amigo Skate, Cuba | Documentary Campesino | Documentary The Chunta | Documentary Hermanos | Documentary Amigo Skate, Cuba uncovers the county’s An amateur photographer documents for In a small town in Mexico, once a year, Two Mexican brothers that want to go illegal underground skate culture in a story the last 15 years the disappearing way men transform into women and become back to the US, in parallel with the story of of cooperation overcoming culture clash— of life of Cuba’s tobacco farmers, forging the Chuntá. Follow two gender-bending an American woman who lost her house and a universal quest for freedom on four friendships and capturing dignity through gangs of dancers as they face off in a and believes she can get it back through little wheels. his surprisingly intimate pictures. struggle between queer identity and Trump’s promises. USA and Cuba | 72min | Director: Vanesa Cuba | 89min | Director: Mia Tate in attendance powerful traditions. Mexico and UK | 80min | Director: Laura Plancarte in Wilkey-Escobar in attendance Mexico | 62min | Director: Genevieve Roundané in attendance attendance

Onibo | Documentary Primavera | Narrative The Sentence | Documentary Shorts Block | Latinx A modern day tale of two brothers from the A father tells his son the unofficial, but real Filmmaker Rudy Valdez shows the I.C.E Cream | 7min Shipibo Amazonian tribe, their dreams of story about the family they belong. Through aftermath of his sister Cindy’s 15-year Samburu Moran | 4min modernity and their reconnection with the his memories we are taken to a journey into sentence for conspiracy charges related to Carro | 12min tradition of their forefathers. the memory of time. crimes committed by her deceased ¡Hola Kitty! | 11min ex-boyfriend. France | 61min | Director: Julien Mauranne et Brazil | 104min | Director: Carlos Porto de Candlelight | 8min Victor Guillon in attendance Andrade Junior in attendance USA | 83min | Director: Rudy Valdez in attendance

18 INDIGENOUS VOICES

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The Blessing | Documentary More Than A Word | Documentary A Navajo coal miner raising his secretive Activists campaign to get the Washington daughter on his own, struggles with his part Redskins to change their name. in the irreversible destruction of their sacred USA | 70min | Directors: Kenn Little in attendance mountain. USA | 74min | Directors: Hunter Baker and Jordan Fein in attendance

Those Who Come, Will Hear | Documentary The Whale House | Documentary A unique meeting with the speakers of A Native Alaskan community heals through several indigenous languages of Quebec. the return of its most sacred stolen artwork; Canada | 77min | Director: Simon Plouffe in attendance the Whale House, considered the “Sistine Chapel” of Native American Art. Canada | 88min | Director: Margarita Ramon in attendance

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20 From experimental to polished, these filmmakers have proven their worth with ingenuity and When are these films playing? heartfelt stories. Find out at pdxff.com or in our printed schedule.

Opening Night

Trump Bites | Narrative Will Vinton Tribute Every day, Donald Trump Celebrate one of the most profound Portlanders ever active in the film industry. unleashes a torrent of His imagination and creative mind have exaggerations, insults, threats, inspired many filmmakers and animators and self-pity. What’s going on alike. Attend this special one of a kind inside that fevered brain? screening of the shorts block he programmed for the Portland Film Festival. This tribute USA | Director: Bill Plympton in was approved by the Vinton Family and attendance and will hold a masterclass. includes a special announcement. See schedule for details.

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Bride of Frankenstein | Narrative Frankenstein | Narrative The Mummy’s Hand | Narrative Dracula’s Daughter | Narrative Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of An obsessed scientist assembles a living An ancient mummy is revived to destroy the Hungarian countess Marya Zaleska seeks her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded being from parts of exhumed corpses. invaders of the 3,000 year-old tomb of an the aid of a noted psychiatrist, hoping to by an even madder scientist, builds his USA | 70min | Director: James Whale | 1931 Egyptian princess. free herself of a mysterious evil influence. monster a mate. USA | 67min | Director: Christy Cabanne | 1940 USA | 71min | Director: Lambert Hillyer | 1936 USA | 75min | Director: James Whale

Drácula (Spanish) | Narrative Creature from the Black Lagoon | Narrative Revenge of the Creature | Narrative Centuries-old vampire Dracula preys upon the innocent Eva and her friends. A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the Men capture the creature from the Black USA | 104min | Director: George Melford | 1931 | Jeff Pirtle in attendance depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group Lagoon and make him an aquarium of scientists try to capture the animal and attraction, from which he escapes. bring it back to civilization for study. USA | 82min | Director: Jack Arnold | 1955 USA | 89min | Director: Jack Arnold | 1954

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12:58 PM ...... 20 Dance On Budapest The Ill-Timed Enlightenment Of Pie ...... 21 Street Dreams ...... 20 2E2: Teaching The With Bandaloop ...... 20 Jason Voorhees ...... 20 Poker Night ...... 17 Sublease ...... 17 Twice Exceptional ...... 15 David Watson: Incarcerated Rhythm . . . . .14 Poor Jane ...... 13 Suitable ...... 21 Doctor Of Bebop ...... 17 Insight ...... 17 Adam’s Ploy ...... 17 Porcupine Lake ...... 10 Sun Shine ...... 21 After Her ...... 21 Dear Kara ...... 17 The Interpreters ...... 15 Pretty Broken ...... 16 Super Lupe ...... 20 The Disenchantment Of A Alaska Is A Drag ...... 10 The Invaders ...... 21 Primavera ...... 18 Young Adult And A Wild Child .21 Sweetheart ...... 21 Amigo Skate, Cuba . . . .11, 18 Inventing Tomorrow . . . . . 7 Prince’s Tale ...... 20 Dons Of Disco ...... 14 The Tailor Of Sansera . . . . 20 And Then They Came For Us . .14 The Joy Block ...... 17, 20 A Private War ...... 13 Double Tap ...... 17 Take Me Out With The Stars . 21 Andromeda ...... 21 Junction ...... 19 Pulsar ...... 21 Dr. Mantis ...... 21 There Goes The Neighborhood .17 Angel ...... 20 Karen Doesn’t Dream . . . . 16 Qui Je Suis ...... 17 The Driver Is Red ...... 20 T(He)Y ...... 20 Angela Wilson: Kindred Spirit ...... 20 R.V...... 20 A Butcher Story ...... 20 Drácula (Spanish) ...... 22 Theythem ...... 17 Kiss ...... 21 Refuge ...... 20 Anomaly ...... 17 Dracula’s Daughter . . . . . 22 Thin Walls ...... 20 Last Dance At Johnson’s Barn .21 Renaissance Afternoon . . . .17 Anthem Of A Teenage Prophet .12 Edge Of Daybreak ...... 20 Those Who Come, Will Hear . 19 The Last Vacation ...... 20 Res-Urgency ...... 19 Armed ...... 12 Edge Of Success ...... 11 Three Days Of Glory . . . . .16 Letter From Massanjia . . . .15 The Resistance ...... 21 The Audition ...... 21 Elephant Path ...... 14 Titanyum ...... 20 Lez Bomb ...... 6 Revenge Of The Creature . . .22 Barren ...... 21 Emma ...... 21 Touch Me Not ...... 10 Limit Of Wooded Country . . .21 Rich Kids ...... 10 Before Petrichor ...... 20 Esfuerzo ...... 20 Treasure ...... 21 Little Faith ...... 12 Rise ...... 17, 20 Behind Closed Doors . . . . .21 Everlasting Mom ...... 20 Trespass ...... 20 Little Fiel ...... 19, 21 Rising ...... 17 Behind The Curve ...... 11 Exhale ...... 20 Trouble With Wolves . . . . 16 Little Star ...... 16 River Gold ...... 17 Believe The Beat . . . . .11, 16 Father ...... 20 Trump Bites ...... 21 Living While Dying . . . . . 16 Runner ...... 20 Beyond Our Mountains . . . .21 Fatherhood ...... 14 The Turn Out ...... 13 Lotte That Silhouette Girl . . .20 Rust Creek ...... 10 Bike Trip ...... 20 Feminists: What Were They Love Club ...... 21 Samburu Moran ...... 18 Two In The Bush ...... 13 Birth Of Afrobeat ...... 20 Thinking? ...... 14 Made You Look ...... 17 Seascape ...... 21 Uncut ...... 20 A Fine Cycle ...... 17 Blacklisted ...... 21 Magic Bullet ...... 21 Second Assault ...... 20 Unexpected Company . . . . 21 Flowers Of Marrakech ...... 20 The Blessing ...... 19 Mail Order Monster . . . . .10 Secret Bonsai ...... 17 Unicorn ...... 17 For Izzy ...... 12 Bride Of Frankenstein . . . . 22 Mama Jane ...... 20 Seniors ...... 17 Unintended ...... 13 Frankenstein ...... 22 Brothers ...... 20 Manuel ...... 20 The Sentence ...... 18 The Velvet Underground From Haarlem To Harlem . . .20 Burton Before And After . .17, 20 Maryam Joon ...... 20 She’s Marrying Steve . . . . 20 Played At My High School . . 20 Funny Story ...... 12 Bury Me ...... 17 Medieval Martha Stewart . . 20 The Shift ...... 20 Vitamin C ...... 20 Future Filmmakers ...... 17 By Any Means Necessary . . .14 Meerkat Moonship . . . . . 12 Show Or Tell ...... 17, 21 Wajd: Songs Of Separation . .15 Gemini ...... 21 California Roll ...... 21 #Metoo Gumshoe ...... 21 Six Nights ...... 17 Ward: B12 ...... 20 Generations ...... 19 Call Harry ...... 17 Mixed Signals ...... 21 Sleepover ...... 17 We Are The Menstruators . . 15 Ghost Light ...... 12 Campesino ...... 11, 18 Monumental ...... 19 Solving Leah ...... 20 We Carry It Within Us . . . . 15 Go Missing ...... 17 Candace ...... 21 More Than A Word . . . . . 19 Someone You Know Is We Have Our Ways . . . . . 17 Candlelight ...... 18, 20 The Golden People . . . . . 21 The Most Dangerous Year . . 11 In The Woods ...... 20 We Know Where You Live . . 20 The Candlelight Witch . . . .20 The Happiness Machine . . . 20 The Mummy’s Hand . . . . .22 Sothea ...... 21 Wendy’s Shabbat ...... 20 Heather Has Four Moms . . . 20 Carro ...... 18 My Life, Interrupted . . . . .20 Space Girls ...... 20 The Whale House ...... 19 Help You See ...... 19 Cat Box ...... 20 Mystery In The Keys . . . . .17 Spanish Dracula ...... 22 What They Had ...... 13 Hermanos ...... 18 The Chunta ...... 6, 18 Native ...... 21 Spanko ...... 20 When Jeff Tried Circle ...... 17 Hiro’s Table ...... 14 Night Call ...... 20 Spark ...... 20 To Save The World ...... 7 Clique Bait ...... 20 ¡Hola Kitty! ...... 18 NO ...... 20 Stand-In ...... 17 The Whistler ...... 21 Contagion ...... 20 Hula Girl ...... 20 Onibo ...... 18 State Of Cyclocross . . . . . 17 The World Of Snowhorse Creature Comforts ...... 17 I See Through You ...... 21 Parallel Chords ...... 12 Stay Human ...... 15 Animation ...... 20 Creature Of The Black Lagoon .22 I.c.e. Cream ...... 18 Passenger ...... 21 The Staying Kind ...... 17 Your Face Global Jam . . . . 21

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