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thearts
.
her personal perspective as a
E queer individual. Richey in
sists the film is not about a
guy in the queer community.
Regardless, and with respect
to that pseudo-sibling rivalry,
the film has provided both its
subject and director the
chance to educate people cu
rious about both the deaf and
trans worlds—and that, after
all, is what really matters.
“I would hope that people
.realize that there’s a lot of
didn’t understand it. Then “I w o u ld h o p e th a t p e o diversity within our commu
when I moved to Portland,
nity,” said Richey.
p le realize th a t th e re ’s
1 met some trans people.
“My hope is that everyone
a
lot
o
f
d
iversity
w
ithin
Meeting Austin, I was like,
who watches the film realizes
‘Oh, yeah. You’re a guy.’”
that Austin is just a regular
o u r c o m m u n ity .”
“When she asked me if I
-AUSTIN RICHEY American guy, and that they
would let her make a movie
feel like they’ve had the op
about me, at first I wasn’t quite sure about portunity to become friends With him,” said
her boundaries,” said Richey, 38, through Greenwood.
Greenwood’s ASL interpretation. “I didn’t
really know what she had in mind. I wanted Austin Unbound premieres at the Hollywood
to be cautious.”
Theatre (4122 NE Sandy Blvd.) Sat., Nov. 12
The challenge over the years between at 7 p.m. and again Sun., Nov. 13 at 3 p.m.
Richey and Greenwood was conceptual, as Tickets are $5 in advance via hollywoodthe-
well as financial. But to a degree, it was atre.org, $7 at the door. The film also screens at
also due to Greenwood’s inexperience. The 8:45 p.m. Tues., Nov. 15 at the Portland Art
soundtrack alone—which encompasses Museums Northwest Film Center (1219 SfV
nearly the entirety of the subtitled film Park). Tickets for the Northwest Filmmakers'
and features amazing contributions from Festival run $6-$9. For more information,
The Decemberists’ Chris Funk, and song visit austinunbound.org.
writer Ashleigh Flynn—took two years to
cultivate.
“She didn’t give up,” said Richey of the
process. “She just kept going and trying to
T h e long a n d short o f th e First
network, trying to find how to make it
A nnu al S h o rty S h o rts Q u e e r S h o rt
happen.”
Film Festival
Austin Unbound is most notably not a sen
sationalist, sorry or sad tale of a genderqueer
There are short shorts—the bottom butt-
subject coming to terms with their identity. cheek-baring Daisy Duke variety, the color
Nor is it a film about a deaf person’s struggle ful, perhaps bedazzled kind on display
to acclimate to a noisy world. As Greenwood throughout Pride season pomp and circum
put it, succinctly and accurately, it’s a “happy stance—and then there are shorty shorts, an
trans film,” and that happiness sets Austin envelope-pushing idea so inspired it oughta
Unbound apart from contemporary docs.
be in pictures.
Greenwood and Richey do have opposing
Brief—yes, short—pictures.
viewpoints on the “queerness” of the film.
Enter the first annual Shorty Shorts
Greenwood contends that she shot it from Queer Short Film Festival, a showcase as
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