NW Film Center presents the 41st Northwest Filmmakers' Festival - SHORTS III 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 III
SUN, NOV 9, 6:30 PM | FRI, NOV 14, 7 PM

THE SMITHS
DIRECTOR: NEELY GONIODSKY / KIRKLAND, WA
(ANI) The story of how a family falls into and is rescued out of homelessness comes to life through hand-drawn animation, digital cutouts, and paintings. (3 mins.)

BEYOND MURDER
DIRECTOR: ZACHARY T. SMITH / PORTLAND, OR
(NAR) This chilling true crime mystery reenacts the modus operandi of the oldest couple in American history to be sentenced to death. (8 mins.)

CHAPEL OF REST
DIRECTOR: BEN MERCER / PORTLAND, OR
(NAR) Two mischievous young brothers attending their grandfather’s wake experience the surreal ceremony of death. (8 mins.)

COMMUTE
DIRECTOR: LOU WATSON / PORTLAND, OR
(EXP) Watson suggests looking sideways at the everyday to become re-enchanted with place and self. (5 mins.)

FROM THE SKY
DIRECTOR: IAN EBRIGHT / SEATTLE, WA
(NAR) A humble father and his troubled son struggle to cope with the effect of drones in the Middle East. (18 mins.)

ROUGAROUING
DIRECTOR: MICHAEL PALMIERI, DONAL MOSHER / PORTLAND, OR
(DOC) Eunice, Louisiana, surely a colorful community (here shot in splendid black and white), has a raucous rural Mardi Gras celebration. (11 mins.)

THE UNCLUDED ORGANS
DIRECTOR: ROB SHAW / PORTLAND, OR
(EXP) A song from the rock band The Uncluded espouses organ donation with the help of stop motion insects. (3 mins.)

THE BEAR’S PROGRESS
DIRECTOR: MALIA JENSEN / PORTLAND, OR
(EXP) An inhabited bear costume wanders in the landscape doing what bears do and do not do. (9 mins.)

ONE NIGHT IN FLORIDA
DIRECTOR: TESS MARTIN / SEATTLE, WA
(ANI) Martin illustrates President Obama’s speech reacting to the case involving George Zimmerman shooting an unarmed black teenager in 2012. (1 min.)

LAYOVER
DIRECTOR: VANESSA RENWICK / PORTLAND, OR
(EXP) Swirling in enchanting flight, the Vaux’s Swifts layover for three weeks in Portland, Oregon each fall on their migration to South America. (6 mins.)

BALING BAILING
DIRECTOR: LAWRENCE JOHNSON / PORTLAND, OR
(DOC) In rice fields of the Indonesian island of Bali, farmers keep the birds away with rhythmic noisemakers, plastic bags, and scarecrows. (5 mins.)

A LOVE STORY
DIRECTOR: BRANDY SVENDSON / VANCOUVER, BC
(DOC) This moving story of loss in the early days of the AIDS epidemic celebrates the timelessness and universal qualities of love. (9 mins.)

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