Portland State School of Film @ PIFF 2020

Onward: A Strange Choice for PIFF

This review was written by McKinzie Smith. Like many in our class, I was interested to see how the screenings of the new Pixar film Onward would fit into PIFF. PIFF is no stranger to children’s films; one of the most vibrant films I saw last year was a Japanese anime in the “Films forContinue reading “Onward: A Strange Choice for PIFF”

Borrufa (2020)

This year at the 43rd Portland International Film Festival, the festival was running a Future/Future Competition. The festival describes this competition as “highlighting boundary-pushing new cinema from emerging filmmakers”(cinemaunbound.org). The first film to play from this selection was Borrufa(2020), which PIFF described as an immigrant woman’s navigation of her husband’s betrayal, and a film thatContinue reading “Borrufa (2020)”

Onward, directed by Dan Scanlon

Onward, a Pixar film released on March 6, was one of the first films screened at the Portland International Film Festival. The film, directed by Dan Scanlon – who also directed the popular Pixar film Monsters University – follows the journey of two brothers on a quest to (with the help of a little magic)Continue reading “Onward, directed by Dan Scanlon”

My First Blog Post

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

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