Interests: Documentary Views, Narrative Feature, Music, Narrative, Experimental, Youth.
(DOC) Finding out what lives in nature’s waters.
(ANI) The children’s classic is animated into life.
(DOC) Speaking out about the power of making art.
(DOC) When one’s dream almost trumps everything else.
(DOC) Carnivorous plants and their keeper revealed.
(DOC) Lessons from a seaside tsunami disaster.
(EXP) Red, yellow, blue, and twisted all over.
(EXP) Concern with physical appearance taken to the extreme.
(EXP) Life isn’t so bad after all.
(MUSIC VIDEO) A greeting committee of fellow travelers.
(EXP) Changing the Native community, one teen at a time.
(DOC) A daughter’s story of her two-mother family.
(MUSIC VIDEO) What keeps us from seeing things as they really are?
(NAR) Cowboys try to set the record straight.
The three shorts programs in the 40th Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival offer overviews of the current state of filmmaking in the Northwest, including a wide variety of genre, tone, and cultural diversity—something for everyone.
Screenings at The Mission Theater are 21 and over.
Interests: Documentary Views, Narrative Feature, Animation, Experimental, Shorts.
(DOC) Some folks have very strong opinions about lawns.
(EXP) What are the odds that a roll of unexposed 16mm film would be found in an alley by someone like filmmaker Woods, who knew what to do with it?
(DOC) Vancouver, BC, residents read real Craigslist ads.
(EXP) Strom continues her series of short films pairing found footage with stories she has collected from World War II veterans.
(ANI) A surreal encounter between man and Bichon ensues in the bucolic setting of a Pacific Northwest forest.
(NAR) What do you do when the deer you just ran over turns out to be your late father?
(DOC) Would the owners of a silver hatchback please move their car?
(DOC) Fred Nemo tells his story, from the riches of his youth to the years he has spent as dancer for the band Hazel.
Interests: Documentary Views, Animation, Experimental, Shorts.
(DOC) A mother wades through her life of domestic abuse with a resilience and cheery willingness to continue to try new things.
(ANI) A childhood vision compels a man to explore the bottom of a toxic lake.
(DOC) The true short story of Kendrick, a young calf roper in Lafayette, Louisiana, who dreams of one day making it to the rodeo national championship.
(EXP) Explore the eco-urban tourist landscape of one of the world’s most visited cities from a perspective less than three inches off the ground.
(ANI) Abstract compositions inspired by vintage wallpaper and wrapping paper stimulate a collective memory of youthful self-hypnosis and visual absorption.
(EXP) A truck explodes into a kaleidoscope of painted, optically printed animation.
(EXP) Through manipulated footage of the classic film CHARADE, Hughes contemplates identity and celebrity.
(DOC) Rao offers $500 he won in a grant to whomever sends him the most compelling video explaining how they would use the cash to throw an epic party.
(DOC) Mike Friton is a shoe designer, weaver, and paper sculptor.
(ANI) This animation is inspired by the song by SkyJelly, which is inspired by the short story, now a film, by James Cowan.
(DOC) This rhythmic portrait explores Portland’s horse race track.
(NAR) On the Northwest coast in the early 19th century, a Salish native’s dream quest is disturbed by the arrival of a tall ship.
(EXP) Repetition and unfulfilled anticipation fuel this abstract experiment with animated objects.
(EXP) 1s and 0s—what will be programmed? Behold, an analog response to digital media.
(EXP) A woman’s voice sketches out an enigmatic romance while the camera gets lost in the patterns of sunlight on windswept leaves and water.
(DOC) Peter Davenport’s life work is running the National UFO Reporting Center.