By Sam Schrader March 2020 marked the 43rd year of the Portland International Film Festival, managed and hosted by the Northwest Film Center. While the festival has long been a staple of the local cultural scene, this year things were a little different. For the first time in nearly forty years, the NWFC has aContinue reading “Film Festivals in the Time of Plague (and After)”
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Shorts Block III: The Good and the Ugly
By Sam Schrader I had the pleasure of seeing the third block of shorts at the 43rd Portland International Film Festival with Charlie Faulker. This was the first screening I attended since the COVID 19 situation really picked up, and the last event PIFF held before cancelling the festival due to concerns of unnecessary exposureContinue reading “Shorts Block III: The Good and the Ugly”