Homegrown DocFest Sept. 3 - (Posted: August 26, 2010 @ 02:36 PM)

HOMEGROWN DOCFEST
Portland Premiere SEPT 3
Locally-made Films, Food, and Beer!
With music by Ritchie Young of Loch Lomond
When: Friday, Sept. 3 doors at 7:30pm
Where: Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan
Admission: $7 at the door (proceeds to benefit NW Documentary educational programs).

On Friday, Sept 3 at the Mission Theater, all-new locally-made documentaries will hit the big screen. NW Documentary’s “Homegrown DocFest” will feature films produced during Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Documentary workshop. 

These quirky, enlightening and endearing short documentary films will introduce a host of colorful, local characters and topics.

Filmmaker Q&As and the release of the 2010 Fall Catalog of NW Documentary workshops follow the screening. Music by Ritchie Young of Loch Lomond.

Mastering Motion - (Posted: August 08, 2010 @ 02:58 PM)

Mastering Motion ($200 members/$250 non-members)
Mondays, August 9 – 30 (4 sessions)
7 – 9 pm
Need a professional looking title sequence for your doc? How about a dazzling animated graph to show off some statistics? This workshop will serve as an introduction to Apple’s powerful video compositing program bundled in Final Cut Studio. Learn basic compositing techniques, how to make dynamic text sequences, and simple animation tricks needed to add visual flare to accompany your stories.

Register here.

Works in Progress Screening this Sunday - (Posted: August 05, 2010 @ 11:32 PM)

Local documentary filmmaker, and NW Documentary workshop alumni, Maren Souders will be showing the rough cut of her work in progress "Happiness: A How-To". It follows four people who have found their way from depression or challenging circumstances to happiness. 

Works in Progress screenings are an opportunity for practicing documentary filmmakers to share their current projects with peers for valuable feedback, constructive criticism, fresh perspective, and always-needed support and enthusiasm. For viewers, it's a rare chance to see the documentary creative process in action, meet filmmakers, and discuss documentary films.

Join us to watch the film, meet other filmmakers and students, and help grow the personal and professional networking of non-fiction filmmaking here in the northwest.

Screening Date: August 8th, 2010 from 3-4pm.
NW Documentary

Fundraiser tomorrow night! - (Posted: July 30, 2010 @ 11:16 AM)

Portland's Black Tie Comedy Troupe is graciously donating 50% of their proceeds from their upcoming "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged" to NW Documentary. 

7-9pm this Saturday in the lobby of the New Market Theater Building, at 115 SW Ash Street. Suggested donation $10. Go to www.btct.webs.com for info. They are very kind.

NWDoc students take home an Emmy! - (Posted: June 11, 2010 @ 01:00 PM)

“Roadside Attractions Along the Redwood Highway,” a 15-minute documentary film, won a High School Emmy in the 47th Annual Northwest Regional EMMY Awards. 

High schoolers Darby Miller of Bend, Jay Simeon of Portland, and Eston McAgue of Seattle created the film under the mentorship of professional filmmakers of NW Documentary, Ian McCluskey, Allan Luebke, and Mariah Dunn, in the Documentary Explorers Camp.

“Roadside Attractions Along the Redwood Highway” explores the fascinating history and people of the Northern Redwoods, featuring drive-through trees, chainsaw artists, and endangered elk herds.

The students divided the film into three sections and each became responsible for their own portion of the project, while also collaborating as a group to create a unified film. They selected a topic that required students to approach and interact with a variety of people. The resulting story is both charming and informative; it shows careful research, strong interviewing skills, and humor.

NW Documentary’s Documentary Explorers Camp is an outdoor environmental education program designed to introduce students to documentary filmmaking as a tool for exploring, understanding, and appreciating the Pacific Northwest’s environment.  

Sneak Peak of Summer Snapshot - May 21 - (Posted: May 10, 2010 @ 05:43 PM)

Summer Screening Shindig!
A Super 8 ode to summer from director Ian McCluskey
Music from Pancake Breakfast and The Dimes
 
Friday, May 21
doors at 7 pm
$5 door, 21+
The Cleaners at Ace Hotel
403 SW 10th

Last summer, Emmy-award winning director Ian McCluskey packed up a wood-panel Wagoneer with a couple of vintage super-8 cameras, a volunteer cast and crew, and a cooler full of tallboys and headed to the river to shoot a short film about summer memories. A slice of life—a film about carefree in-the-moment living between youth and adulthood and a reflection on golden memories as we grow older.

Summer Snapshot is a short documentary essay film, recreating a sun-soaked summer day at a mountain river, reflecting themes of friendship, adventure, and age. Shot in super-8 film and edited in HD, the film combines spoken audio, music, and natural sounds, evoking a warm, ephemeral mood.

After a drizzly winter holed up in an editing booth, the creative team is eager to share this sun-soaked film with the world.

Join NW Documentary May 21 at the Cleaners for music, drinks, and a special sneak peak of this new work.