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OSCAR SUBMISSIONS
This year’s Festival features the Portland premieres
of 16 of this year’s submissions for the Best
Foreign Language Film Oscar. Included are: The Child
(Belgium), C.R.A.Z.Y. (Canada), Wanderings Shadows (Colombia),
Mother of Mine (Finland), Merry Christmas (France),
Sophie Scholl (Germany), Fateless (Hungary), Paheli
(India), So Close, So Far (Iran), Requiem of Snow (Iraq),
To the Other Side (Mexico), Bluebird (Netherlands),
Kissed By Winter (Norway), Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania),
Tsotsi (South Africa), Zozo (Sweden).
Thanks to the Rose E. Tucker Trust
for supporting this showcase.
NEW DIRECTORS
As well as discovering new films, the Festival offers
the opportunity to discover new voices—filmmakers
whose first feature film makes them a talent to watch.
This year’s New Directors Showcase features 20
debut films, which are eligible for the Audience New
Director Award. Included are: Sarah Watt’s Look
Both Ways (Australia), Erwin Wagenhofer’s We Feed
the World (Austria), Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary’s
Favela Rising (Brazil/US), Sergio Machado’s Lower
City (Brazil), Hao Ning’s Mongolian Ping Pong
(China), Julian Jarrold’s Kinky Boots (Great Britain),
Luis Orjuela’s The Car (Colombia), Ciro Guerra’s
The Wandering Shadows (Colombia), Markku Pölönen’s
Dog Nail Clipper (Finland), Gilles Porte and Yolande
Moreau’s When the Sea Rises (France), Marie Ade’s
Forest For the Trees (Germany), Lajos Koltai’s
Fateless (Hungary), Ricardo Benet’s News From
Afar, (Mexico), Brad McGann’s In my Father’s
Den (New Zealand), Sarah Johnson’s Kissed By Winter
(Norway), José Corbacho and Juan Cruz’s
Tapas (Spain), Maria Blom’s Delecarlains (Sweden),
Heidi Ewing and Rachael Grady’s Boys of Baraka
(US), Richard Peterson’s Clear Cut (US), and Ward
Serrill’s Heart of the Game (US).
Thanks to the Paul G. Allen Foundation
for the Arts for supporting this showcase.
DOCUMENTARY VIEWS
This year’s Festival offers 15 extraordinary new
documentaries that bring the world and the fascinating
people and stories that make it go round, into view.
We hope you’ll vote for your favorite nonfiction
film in the Audience Awards, and discover the surprising
worlds that unfold in: Erwin Wagenhofer’s We Feed
the World (Austria), Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary’s
Favela Rising (Brazil/US), Rex Bloomstein’s KZ
(Great Britain), Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi’s
Sisters In Law (US), Faith Akin’s Crossing the
Bridge—The Sound of Istanbul (Germany), Christian
Frei’s The Giant Buddhas (Switzerland), Heinz
Butler’s Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned
Eye (Switzerland), Heidi Ewing and Rachael Grady’s
The Boys of Baraka (US), Richard Peterson’s Clear
Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon (US), Michèle
Ohayon’s Cowboy del Amor (US), Jeff Feff Feuerzeig’s
The Devil and Daniel Johnson (US), Jonathan Demme’s
Neil Young: Heart of Gold (US), Ward Serrill’s
Heart of the Game (US), James Longley’s Iraq In
Fragments (US), and Chris Meltzer and Jeff Springer’s
Plagues and Pleasures of the Salton Sea (US).
Thanks to Tazo® Tea for supporting
this showcase.
SHORT CUTS
They may be of short length, but none are short on vision.
This year’s six programs of shorts feature 46
films from near and far, plus 22 works by young filmmakers
from throughout the Northwest in our student program.
Our thanks go to Laika for supporting
this year’s programs of animated, live action
and documentary shorts, and to Comcast for presentation
of the Best of the Young People’s Film & Video
Festival.
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HOLLYWOOD VIDEO AUDIENCE AWARDS
As always, you get to be the judge. Let us know your
opinion about the films in this year’s Festival.
Ballots will be available at screenings to rate and
comment on the films you see. At the conclusion of the
festival the results of the balloting will be announced,
with awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Documentary,
Best Short, the New Director’s Award and other
special recognition that emerges from audience Feedback.
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