NW EMERGING ARTIST
SHORTS COMPETITION
United States, 90 Minutes
SAT APR 18, 2:15pm, The Grand Theater
Various cast & crew in attendance
The jury’s still out on who will walk away with the coveted NW Emerging Artist Awards at this year’s festival, so your vote counts! We have put together a shorts package and have selected five feature-length films all of which hail from filmmakers that live in or shot their movies in the Pacific Northwest. Winners of both the NW Emerging Artist Feature Competition and the NW Emerging Artist Shorts Competition will be determined by a combined vote of our Special Jury and by the Film Festival Audience. Each of the official entrants shows the promise and desire to make a significant contribution to the future of film. Just think, you’ll be able to say: “I saw them when…!”
ACROSS THE SOUND
Directed by Brian Libby
Portland, 4 minutes
Shot on a ferry from Seattle to Victoria, this moody and minimalistic visual poem floats to the music of French electronica artist Colleen.
CROSSROADS ON THE COLUMBIA
Directed by Donna Quinn & Spence Palermo
Astoria, 24 minutes
The passion and power of grass roots make this a compelling story of America at the crossroads of fossil fuel dependence, renewable energy and decisions over who controls our land, air, water and economy.
DREAM RIDERS
Directed by Leigh Coffey
Portland, 23 minutes
Dream Riders features Harley Davidson motorcycle riders who offer their views on the Harley life, their romance with the machine and the outlaw mystique.
I WOULD RATHER
Directed by Shawn Nelson
Lake Oswego, 5 minutes
Everything is not as it appears as an innocent game of 'would you rather' goes horribly wrong.
MODEL RULES
Directed by Ray Nomoto Robison
Medford, 10 minutes
WINNER!
Letting her imagination run away with her, an aging artist's model wildly fantasizes about one of the men sketching her as she poses nude.
NICKEL AND DIMIN' IT WITH BUDDY
Directed by Tomas Soderberg
Portland, 7 minutes
We are invited to glimpse the everyday struggles of a homeless Portland man who pontificates on life while collecting bottles and cans for his next meal.
OSCILLATING FAN
Directed by Rob Tyler
Portland, 4 minutes
Known for turning ordinary household objects into extraordinary poetry, Rob Tyler creates a quiet symphony of circulating air.
THESE PANCAKES ARE TINY
Directed by Matthew Seely
Portland, 4 minutes
In this hilarious animated slice of life short, two brothers resort to name calling over breakfast at a local diner.
TIME PERCEPTION
Directed by Shahrom Taghizadegan
Salem, 6 minutes
With exploding colors, syncopated music, and temporal manipulation, we experience Pacific Northwest landscape and the people that inhabit it with new eyes.
TO REMEMBER THAT OUR SKIES ARE THE SAME SKIES
Directed by Chris Lael Larson
Portland, 3 minutes
Exquisite, state-of-the-art motion graphics poetically render the universality of humanity.
