YOUNG PEOPLE'S FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
The 29th annual Young People’s Film & Video Festival celebrates artistic excellence, technical achievement and originality in live action, documentary and animated films and videos made by kids, schools and youth organizations in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho and Utah. Twenty pieces were selected for this year’s program, 15 of which are from the local Portland/Vancouver area. This year’s jurors were Portland independent filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, long-time public school advocate Kathy Kollasch, and Jesse McDaniel, former Festival winner of 2004. Jurors spent many hours viewing this year’s entries, making tough decisions on which pieces would comprise the best of regional student-produced film, video & animation.
FREE ADMISSION
Note: Some material not suitable for viewers under the age of 12.

LIVING HISTORY: DOCUMENTS OF INJUSTICE LYNCHING OF LOUIE SAM
David Mcllwraith Vancouver, BC
McIlwraith merges documentary with reenacted narrative segments to tell the story of a 14 year-old Canadian boy from the Sto:lo Nation. In 1884, based on virtually no evidence, Louie Sam was accused of murder and subsequently lynched by a mob of white American men. Through interviews with historians and contemporary Sto:lo people who have grown up with the Louie Sam tragedy as part of their cultural history, McIlwraith presents an opportunity for discussion about racism, international politics and the legacy of oppression. (52 mins.)

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CROSSING THE ABYSS
Elle Martini Coburg, OR
CROSSING THE ABYSS traces one woman’s journey from Auschwitz to Oregon. Sent to the death camp as a child, Miriam Greenstein managed to survive the Nazis, but her family was not so fortunate. After the war, having nothing left in her native Germany, she arranged with an American uncle to make her way to the United States, and to Oregon. Martini allows Greenstein to tell her story in her own voice, providing a powerful and encouraging example of perseverance and survival. (10 mins.)

HONORABLE MENTION
". . .for its bracingly straightforward yet restrained account of a harrowing history."— M.A.

CURIOSITIES
Join us for the Festival finale, an eclectic collection of of the not quite classifiable- soap bubbles, dreams and carnivorous plants-joined if not by theme by their singular visual imaginations.

COLOR AND MODULATION
Rob Tyler Portland, OR
Seven years in the making, Tylers’ series of films features thousands upon thousands of swirls painstakingly painted onto 16mm film and coupled with ambient music.

ACTAEON AT HOME
Vladimir Portland, OR
Visual artist Vladimir may be the only artist working in the medium of viewmasters- or as she calls her creations, “Vladmasters.” The whole audience will experience a man’s nightmare simultaneously, watching it through their own viewmaster with live musical accompaniment by The Apt Ensemble.

THE CARNIVOROUS SYNDROME
Mike Wilder Portland, OR
Travel to the Venezuelan tepuis, African savannahs and the rainforests of Borneo while learning about the mysterious plants that live there. Wilder’s film features time lapse 3-D photography captured with a robot of Wilder’s own creation.

DANCING RAINBOWS
George Andrus Portland, OR
Andrus’ technique for photographing the stunning natural colors of soap bubbles unearths a splendid beauty from the seemingly ordinary.