We serve as a dynamic international hub for filmmaking, bridging global voices with Portland’s creative community to foster exchange, build connections, and establish our city as a premier destination for innovative and diverse creative talent.
Schedule of Events:
10:00am - Safety Day Saturday
Keeping our employees, colleagues and community safe is our priority. With budgets at an all-time low, and technology racing faster than folks can keep up, we'll explore key practices around safety that often go overlooked in basic training programs and on indie sets. This annual event will continue to highlight new topics each year so we can all improve prioritizing getting each person home safe from set.
Program of Events:
9:30am - 10:00am - Doors open, coffee and pastries served
10:00am - 11:00am - Picture Car Safety Demo with Via Films
11:00am - 12:00pm - Production Safety & Protocol Panel
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Interpersonal Wellness on Set Panel
The program concludes with a special screening of the SAFE SETS documentary at the Hollywood Theatre.
Location: Wonderlove
12:00 PM - Environmental Shorts
Four very different documentaries, all with Northwest ties. From a beach cleanup initiative in Mexico, to the commercial killing of kangaroos in Australia, to restoring kelp forests and salmon populations here in the NW. These stories serve as both warnings and offerings of hope for a better future. Filmmakers In Attendance!
Location: Hollywood Theatre - Upstairs
2:30 PM - Safe Sets
Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry
A doctor investigates hazardous working conditions in Hollywood, and discovers untold stories of enormous personal sacrifice and life-threatening risks for those working in an industry that brings us the movies and TV shows we cherish.
Location: Hollywood Theatre - Upstairs
5:30pm - A Midsummer Night's Dream in Prison
“The three hours we spend down here – it’s almost like not being in prison,” says Zeb, a prison inmate in rural Eastern Oregon. Zeb and his fellow cast members are putting on a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Most have never even considered acting, and were simply drawn in by the opportunity to break up the monotony of incarceration. In rehearsals, as they work together and learn more about each other, the men find unexpected new perspectives about their lives – past, present, and future. As their dramatic odyssey unfolds, themes of gender identity and the challenges faced by BIPOC prisoners are deftly explored, and the power of the arts to challenge and heal, even under the most difficult circumstances, is affirmed and celebrated.
Join us for this special presentation of the late Bushra Azzouz's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Prison. Celebrate a wondrous local filmmaker and the work she left behind. Screening followed by a Q&A with filmmaking team.
Location: Hollywood Theatre - Upstairs
7:30pm - NW Shorts Program 2
Location: Hollywood Theatre - Main Floor
