The Confluence

The Northwest Film Center and the Portland Art Museum present the virtual opening of Spaceship Earth, screening online starting Friday, May 8 for a one week run. Spaceship Earth premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and follows eight people who spent two years inside of a replica of Earth’s ecosystem called Biosphere 2.

Your $3.99 ticket will directly support both NWFC and PAM and we encourage all of our board, members, staff, and supporters to join us—and spread the word.

Support your favorite local restaurant and help promote a unique experience that will raise money for restaurants who are serving meals to our frontline heroes and to those with food insecurity. Take part in Takeout And A Movie, virtually, on Saturday, May 9^th!

This is an opportunity to stream a fun and inspiring local movie, PHOENIX OREGON, and support a charitable fund for the hospitality industry.

Takeout And A Movie #TakeoutAndAMovie #HospitalityHelpFund

About the movie Variety says “To put it simply–and, yes, gratefully–Phoenix, Oregon is the sort of movie a lot of us need right now.”

With the Governor’s framework document for “Reopening Oregon” being released yesterday we have started to have specific conversations with filmmakers, producers, companies and partners like the OMPA, Portland Film Office, IATSE 488, SAG-AFTRA, & DGA about what safety protocols will now need to be in place for production, large and small, to resume here in Oregon.

To that end, we would encourage anyone with suggestions for what should be considered and/or included in these post-Covid production protocols to reach out to us with your thoughts.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516460982/monument

My grandma, a survivor of Auschwitz, was never able to tell us what happened to her during the Holocaust.  But at the end of life, she returned to her hometown in Hungary to build a mysterious memorial for the town’s Jewish people, including her family. MONUMENT is a feature-length documentary film about my first visit to the memorial, hoping to find answers about what happened to her, and what it means to pass on traumatic memory.

We had the unfortunate timing of launching a crowdfunding campaign for Monument just before the COVID-19 outbreak, but we’ve been overwhelmed and humbled by the amount of support we’ve received.