You’re looking at the ticket prices and you’re thinking “Why should I buy a VIP pass?”

Here are a few more reasons.

• 10% off VIP restaurants and bars
• Special invitation to private festival party
• Admission to see all films and events (capacity permitting)
• Access to VIP Tent with drinks & food during outdoor Movie in the Park Screenings on 8/29-8/30
• Access to the Filmmaker’s lounge (see below) Open 10am-5pm on 8/26-8/31 with appetizers & afternoon pint

We all need a break sometimes

With a VIP pass you’ll get 1 pint everyday at the filmmaker’s lounge from 4-5.

At our outdoor screening events we will have various venders on hand in the VIP area providing free drinks and food. Visit them for more details.

• New Deal Distillery Vodka or Gin cocktails – Eastside Distilling Burnside Bourbon cocktails
• TeSoAria Winery
• Stormbreaker Brewing
• Portland Cider Company
• Poplandia Popcorn

Take 10% off your bill at VIP restaurants and bars

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Okay, so you’ve had your free drinks and now you’re hungry. You’ve for a VIP pass, guess what you’ll be saving, yup, cold hard cash!

At any VIP restaurants and bars you’ll save money by doing what you already planned to do – enjoy a great meal with friend. Stop by any of the restaurants and bars listed below.

• Savoy Tavern
• Smoke House 21
• MUU-MUU’s
• Bastas Trattoria
• Cassidy’s Restaurant and Bar

What is the Filmmaker’s Lounge?

We’ve reserved Ringler’s Pub for the duration of the festival to give filmmakers a place to meet each other, fuel up on northwest pub fare and locally-brewed pints, or maybe even get some work done. The Filmmakers’ lounge is one of the most popular perks of the event—a central destination for industry professionals, actors, writers, directors, producers, studio executives, filmmakers, financial decision makers, and their guests.

You can join in filmmaking forums at the lounge, enjoy live music, ask our amazing volunteers for help and information, or just hang out. We expect about 2,000 people to wander through over the week.

Ringler’s sits beneath the floating-floored Crystal Ballroom and Lola’s Room in downtown Portland. It’s named for the ballroom’s founder, dance aficionado and entrepreneur Montrose Ringler, and features a high wood-beamed ceiling, massive mosaic-tiled bar, and the familiar crack of pool cues in the background.

The hospitality of our Lounge echoes the founding principles of accessibility, openness and play that put the Portland Film Festival in a class of its own.

LIVE MUSIC (4-5pm): Live performance by a local band