NW Film Center presents the 41st Northwest Filmmakers' Festival - SHORTS II program

Join the Northwest Film Center for the 41st Northwest Filmmakers' Festival.  If you're all about the local, you won't want to miss the Northwest Filmmakers' Festival - November 7-14!

Program details:
SHORTS II
THURS, NOV 13, 7 PM

THE GREATEST GIFT: BIKING SIX KIDS TO HAPPINESS
DIRECTOR: JOE BIEL / PORTLAND, OR
(DOC) A mother gives up her car to, rather heroically, transport her six kids by bike. (16 mins.)

GODHEAD
DIRECTOR: CONNOR GASTON / VICTORIA, BC
(NAR) A broken family learns to cope when their autistic son shows them everything they need without saying anything.

COLD LIGHT DAY
DIRECTOR: DAYNA HANSON / SEATTLE, WA
(EXP) In this dreamy dance film, two men exchange cake and dance steps on a quiet marina dock. (6 mins.)

CATS
DIRECTOR: NEELY GONIODSKY / KIRKLAND, WA
(ANI) This poem by A. S. J. Tessimond receives an absurd interpretation. (2 mins.)

SHELL GAME
DIRECTOR: LOU KARSEN / SEATTLE, WA
(DOC) Kathleen Flenniken grew up near, and later was an engineer at, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and is now Washington State’s Poet Laureate. (6 mins.)

DIAMOND BOX
DIRECTOR: RODRIGO VALENZUELA / SEATTLE, WA
(DOC) Valenzuela lived three years without documentation and hired day laborers from the parking lots he used to haunt for this film of stories from the migrant community. (5 mins.)

A TALE OF MOMENTUM & INERTIA
DIRECTOR: KIRK KELLEY, KAMERON GATES / PORTLAND, OR
(ANI) Rock Giant holds the fate of a small coastal village in his hands. (1 min.)

MORNING LIGHT
DIRECTOR: ERIK ANDERSON / VICTORIA, BC
(DOC) This triptych follows the adventures of the filmmaker’s grandfather who sailed the Atlantic alone, his father, a reporter who died on Mt. Everest, and finishes with his grandmother’s recollections of both men.

FIRE SEASON
DIRECTOR: COURTNEY SAUNDERS / MISSOULA, MT
(NAR) During a dry, hot summer in a small Montana town, two sisters share a brief, intense relationship with a young man who sweeps into their lives like a forest fire. (17 mins.)

PROXIMITY
DIRECTOR: JOSHUA COX / PORTLAND, OR
(ANI) A Victorian gentlemen and a sixties cowgirl explore the kitschy depths of love and betrayal.

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