Portland Film Festival 2021

Expressions - Rising Voices Shorts Block

Expired November 9, 2021 7:45 AM
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8 films in package
Color Me Jane
An outspoken high school counselor with a deformity has the answers to everyone’s problems – until she meets a student disfigured in a fire...and the man of her dreams.
Operation Gingham
Two young people in a seemingly post-apocalyptic world meet for a forbidden outing, and become closer in the process.
Dermot Kennedy: Giants
Director Oriol Puig contrasted nature’s return, beauty and peacefulness to global human fears of entrapment and confinement, he was drawn to physically represent Dermot as an antique metallic exoskeleton within environments that warp, merge and in some scenes reveal reflections growing from the inside out.
Above the Troubled Water
Three gay friends from Nigeria are forced to flee their country. Above the Troubled Water follows their stories as they adjust to life in exile.
Last Seen
Last Seen is a web series that follows podcaster Bonnie Chen as she investigates a thirty-year old cold case of three missing girls in rural Pennsylvania.
Wilsen Ruiner
Two very different women cross paths out in the mountains.
Behind The Burning Vines
Untold stories from the heroes of California's wildfires.
Abigail
A lonely and elderly widower struggles to come to terms with the loss of his wife and the circumstances surrounding her death. When he visits her grave, he encounters a little girl who shows him the path to healing and fills him with hope.
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From director Will Twomey, and cinematographer Chris Kam, Behind The Burning Vines shares the untold stories from the heroes of California's wildfires. For Northern California residents like themselves, wildfires are a familiar sight. Chris and Will set out to document their stories. The Glass Fire, was their unfortunate opportunity. Follow along as they embed with firefighters, animal evacuators, and business owners in most destructive fire season in California history.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    39 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Rating
    PG
  • Note
    Created by Will Twomey and Chris Kam
  • Director
    Will Twomey
  • Producer
    Will Twomey
  • Executive Producer
    Charles Musser
  • Co-Producer
    Chris Kam
  • Cast
    Mark and Kiyo Tukman Battalion Chief Chad Costa (Petaluma Fire Department) Lieutenant Tim Lyons (Petaluma Police Department) Danny Drohan (Wilmar Fire Department) Kellie Anderson Clay Zusman (Napa City Fire Department) Dave Cardwell (Napa County Roads) Casey Goltermann (NorCal Livestock Evacuation) Tony August (NorCal Livestock Evacuation) Shelina Moreda (Founder, NorCal Livestock Evacuation) Colin MacPhail (Ex GM, Fairwinds Estate Winery) Brandon Chaney (CEO, Fairwinds Estate Winery) Captain Mike Laughlin (Fremont Fire Department) Rusty Ehrler (Fremont Fire Department) Seth Gatten (Fremont Fire Department) Scott Hall (Fremont Fire Department)
  • Cinematographer
    Chris Kam
  • Editor
    Chris Kam, Will Twomey
  • Sound Design
    Chris Kam
  • Music
    Epidemic Sound
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