The expected virtue of International Film Festivals Introduction It seems there is nothing more confusing year than this year’s 43rd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF). Because the COVID-19 pandemic made the PIFF delay indefinitely during the middle of the festival season only left 4 days until the closing weekend. This was a huge deal to theContinue reading “A hardship of holding a successful International Film Festival: 2020 43rd Portland International Film Festival”
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Film Festivals in the Time of Plague (and After)
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)”
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”
PIFF 2020: Cloudy but distinct demarcation between longing and obsession: and
Emancipation for the past, the beginning of obsession. About the visualization of immensely human emotions. Nothing is more interesting than watching two different movies in a low that have completely dissimilar styles and language but are still similar somehow. At PIFF 2020, the audience could experience this by watching A White, White Day directed byContinue reading “PIFF 2020: Cloudy but distinct demarcation between longing and obsession: and”
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