In this extended conversation about the 44th Portland International Film
Festival, we spend an extra 20 minutes with three local filmmakers whose new
projects are highlights of the festival lineup.
Dawn Jones Redstone has teamed up with Artists Repertory Theatre to cre...
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For the past 30 years, the Cascade Festival of African Films has brought
African films and African filmmakers to Portland, with screenings and events
at Portland Community College, the Kennedy School, and the Hollywood Theatre.
But with the Covid-19 shutdown, the festiv...
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Writer David F Walker is known for his work on such comics titles as Shaft,
Luke Cage, and Power Man & Iron Fist. In Portland, he covered the film
scene for Willamette Week as well as his self-published blaxploitation zine
BadAzzMoFo, and curated the Longbaugh Film Fest...
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Animator Nina Paley is one of the most independent of filmmakers. Her two
feature films, Sita Sings the Blues and Seder Masochism, tackle patriarchal
themes in religious narratives, and reimagine them from a feminist point of
view.
A fierce advocate of copyright abolit...
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In this encore episode from 2009, we visit two award-winning independent
animation directors at their Portland studios.
Joanna Priestley is a filmmaker, teacher, producer, and festival organizer.
She’s best known for her abstract animation, most notably for North of
Bl...
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The 2016 U.S. presidential election was the first to showcase the power of
internet memes, and no meme was more powerful than Pepe the Frog. Created
by Bay-area artist Matt Furie for the 2006 cartoon collection Boy's Club,
Pepe suddenly found himself in the midst of a b...
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Over half a century ago, the UPA animation studio was a haven for misfit
geniuses struggling to create relevant cartoon films in the face of political
and cultural repression. Gambling the future of the company on an hourlong
television special featuring their most popu...
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Marice Cumber is the Founder and Director of Accumulate, a non-profit art
school in London, England, which focuses its services on homeless youth.
Their latest project is The Book of Homelessness, a compilation of
artwork, stories, and graphic memoir by the program's pa...
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