Best of Fest:

The Dam Keeper

Best Narrative Feature:

Sex Ed

Best Documentary Feature:

Tamara W. 

Best Animation:

The Dam Keeper

Best Narrative Short:

Lessons Learned 

Best Documentary Short:

Modify to Fit

Director Award:

B.F.E.

Best Screenplay Award:

Pelham Bay Park by John Burdeaux.
Two girls meet at a deserted baseball field in the Bronx and are drawn into an absurd and possibly menacing match of wills.

You have probably seen our celebrity guests wearing them, they were a huge success!

We’d like to extend a big thanks to Shirt Nerdery for printing Nolan O’Reilly’s t-shirt design and Tyler Spencer’s tote, as well as Poplandia for the popcorn, Mana for the chocolate, Art inHand PDX for the playing cards and Sock it to Me for the fun socks our guests loved.

Shirt design

Nolan O’Reilly
Creative Medicine
Website – http://www.nolanoreilly.com
Instagram – http://instagram.com/nolan.creativemed

Tote design

Tyler Spencer
Website – http://coffeefordrew.com
Behance – https://www.behance.net/CoffeeForDrew
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tyler-Spencer-Designs-Coffee-For-Drew-Productions/128359463852681

Print

Shirt Nerdery
Website – http://shirtnerdery.com
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shirt-Nerdery/172026169505577

Poplandia

Website – http://poplandiapopcorn.com
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/PoplandiaPopcorn

Art in Hand PDX

Website – http://www.artinhandcards.com/pdx

Mana

Website – http://manachocolate.com
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ManaChocolate

Sock it to me

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/sockittomesocks

Head out to any number of other films playing or workshops by checking out our schedule at http://pdxff.com.

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

Highlights from August 26th, the Red Carpet World Premiere of SEX ED staring Haley Joel Osment and the Portland Premiere of Glena during our Opening Night events.

Music: “Little Glow” by Oh Darling

The cast and director during the Q&A session after the World Premiere of SEX ED.

The cast and director during the Q&A session after the Portland Premiere of Glena.

Check out the festival schedule at http://portlandfilmfestival.com

Well, now you can!

Buying a VIP pass gets you an all access red carpet experience of a lifetime. Flaunt your stuff and rub shoulders with celebrities who will be in attendance tonight:

The only thing you need to worry about is what to wear.

What to wear? What to wear?

“And then?”

Glena

After strutting on the red carpet, watch the world premiere of Sex Ed, starring Haley Joel Osment. Yes, that’s right, the world premiere – meaning, never been shown before – will be here in Portland, OR.

Or maybe you’ll be walking the red carpet where you’ll see local celebrity Glena at the opening night screening of GLENA. The stars will be out in force tonight!

Last, but not least, schmooze with industry insiders and dance the night away at the after party at Crystal Ballroom! Don’t miss the most glamorous event of the year, so buy your tickets now before they run out!

We’ve got a myriad of musicians ready to take the stage. We think they are incredible! And just like our film selections their musical styles are as varied as the wind.

Come and enjoy the musicians playing at 2014 PDXFF!

Tuesday, August 26

• Matt Neff – Ringler’s Filmmakers Lounge 4:00-5:00 pm
• DJ Teetoo, Pinscape – Lola’s Room VIP Party 5:30-7:00 pm
• Adventure Galley – Mission Theater 5:30-7:00 pm
• DJ Little Bother, Hippoh Dance Project – Crystal Ballroom 5:45-7:00 pm
• DJ Little Bother, Oh Darling, Us Lights – Crystal Ballroom Opening Night After Party 8:30-11:30 pm

Wednesday, August 27

• Lukas Borsten – Ringler’s Filmmakers Lounge 4:00-5:00 pm
• Kory Quinn, Anna Tivel – Living Room Theaters 5:30 pm
• Will Dudley – Multnomah County Library – Central Writer’s Networking Event 5:30-7:00
• Fractal Quintet, Tennis Pro – Lola’s Room Filmmakers Bash: 9:20-11:30 pm

Thursday, August 28

• Cory Phillips – Ringler’s Filmmakers Lounge 4:00-5:00 pm
• Teach Me Equals feat. Vern Rumsey – Mission Theater Live Pod Cast with Doug Benson podcast 4:20 pm
• Paul Basile, Del Pheona – Living Room Theaters 5:30 pm
• Teach me = – Mission Theater 6:30 pm

Friday, August 29

• Hambone – Ringler’s Filmmakers Lounge 4:00-5:00 pm
• The Resolectrics, Redray Frazier, Cooper & the Jam – Wallace Park 4:30-7:30 pm
• Stew & The Negro Problem – Mission Theater 5:15 pm

Saturday, August 30

• bluefolktronica – Ringler’s Filmmakers Lounge 4:00-5:00 pm
• Swansea, Ezza Rose, Casey Neill & the Norway Rats – Wallace Park 4:30-7:30 pm
• Jenny Conlee (The Decemberists) – Clinton St Theater 5:45 pm
• The Panic – Clinton St Theater 10:30 pm

Sunday, August 31

• C.E. Searle – Ringler’s Filmmakers Lounge 4:00-5:00 pm
• Jacob Miller and the Bridge City Crooners, The Jenny Finn Orchestra, The Midnight Serenaders – Waterfront Park 4:30-7:30 pm
• DJ Mesh and Lace & Agyei Marshall – Closing Night Party White Space 8:30-11:30 pm

Monday, September 1

• New Social Outcasts – Mission Theater 5:00-5:45 pm

Buy your tickets today!

Muybrudge’s Horse

Did a trotting horse always have a foot on the ground?

Motion pictures has its roots in questions like these that became high dollar bets between tycoons. The mavericks that solved these questions are at the heart of film’ roots.

One of these mavericks was Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), an english immigrant known in the west as a wilderness photographer. His East coast reputation included fraud and murder but thats another story.

In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge experimented with a battery of cameras along side a horse track attaching spread threads to the contacts on each camera’s shutter. As the horse trotted by- successive frames of action were recorded settling a bet.

The Ghost Is The Machine

Muybridge had a sponsor for his work, the California railroad tycoon Leland Stanford. The money man had a side bet to settle. He was head strong in knowing whether or not the horse was air born mid stride.

In the next decade Muybridge made a hoopla over the potential of sequence photographs to show motion. These motion pictures he made like strong man picking up weights, gymnast in motion or woman walking down stairs( naked btw) although an attraction had little narrative. Like the magic lanterns before, the most famous of which is the Zoetrope a name Francis Ford Coppola will adopt in the 70s, the first motion images we’re gimmicks. The real story was the machines themselves.

Later, George Eastman (1854-1932) will invent Kodak Film and in New Jersey Thomas Alba Edison (1847-1931) a camera. Meanwhile in France the Lumiere Brothers, Auguste and Lois (1862-1954, 1864-1948) also invent a camera and begin filming.

EXT. TRACK

LELAND STANFORD, dark thick brows, full beard but well kept. He sucks on a fine cigar. His grey suit is stately and pressed. His eyes are a hard blue. He pulls on a gold chain and fishes for the shiny gold watch. After he checks the time he looks up at the horses in the distance beyond the far white railing as they enter the final stretch. The jockeys use their whips. Lelands hand takes gold match box from his vest and lights his cigar. The stands are nearly empty suggesting mid day, mid week. As he puffs he leans in to his cane then brings it up to examine its solid gold goose head handle. Nearby TWO WELL DRESSED BUSINESS Men Argue as the horses round the bend and head for the finish line.

Man one
It’s impossible I can see it. There is always one down.

MAN 1
No. There are always two touching.

He points out the horses as they finish. A voice comes from behind.

LELAND
Two what?

MAN 2
Hooves.

Leland bellows smoke and grips his cane.

LELAND
I think these horses do fly. I say No hooves down.

MAN 2
Impossible.

LELAND
Wanna bet?

Enter MUYBRIDGE. His battery of cameras. An audience on a sunny day in the stands dressed for the derby: big hats, pastel scarves kerchiefs, julip cocktails, fair skin.

It’s a period piece with flawed heroes, beautiful women, sport, an element of danger, greed, sex, show stopping galas and an ending with a pay off that makes history. An ending that is a beginning: it propels the moving image away from the magic lantern and towards celluloid.

Jason Momoa

Jason Momoa, known for playing Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones, is making his directorial debut with Road to Paloma – a gripping story about a Native American man who travels across the country, seeking revenge for his mother’s death. Don’t miss the screening of Road to Paloma on Monday, September 1st at Mission Theater (5pm and 8pm) and the discussion panel at 1801 NW Northrup St (3:30 pm).

Haley Joel Osment

Haley Joel Osment, known for the Sixth Sense and AI, is staring in a hilarious new indie flick called Sex Ed about a sexually inexperienced teacher who is put in the awkward position of teaching sexual education to teenagers.

Speaking of which…

Abby Elliot

SNL alum, Abby Elliot, plays opposite Osment in Sex Ed and will also be making an appearance at the festival. The world premiere of Sex Ed will be playing at the Crystal ballroom on Tuesday, August 26th (2:30 pm).

Doug Benson

Hysterical comedian, Doug Benson (Last Comic Standing, Super High Me), will be doing a live podcast on Thursday, August 28th at Mission Theater (4:20 pm, really) and premiering his new movie, The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled, on Friday, August 29th at Mission Theater (5:15 pm).

Get your tickets today.

This years Portland Film Festival is attracting some big names, so make sure to get your tickets and be part of the burgeoning PDX movie scene! Who knows? You might just run into someone famous.

– Zara Zhi

View the online schedule http://pdxff.com and get your tickets today.

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