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Props: making the Learn how Oregonians KALA hosts best of 43rd
unreal appear real can help orcas survive NW Filmmakers’ Festival
Film, TV props
master to speak
March 16 in Astoria
ASTORIA — Clatsop
County Historical Soci-
ety’s Thursday Night Talks
lecture series continues at
7 p.m. Thursday, March
16 with “Props-n-Hops,” a
presentation by Propmaster
Tim Oakley of the Port-
land-based Oakley Design
Studios.
Oakley designs and cre-
ates props for feature films,
television shows and com-
mercial shoots. His work
has appeared in over 100
motion pictures, including
“The Dark Knight Rises,”
“Jurassic World,” “Indiana
Jones 4” and all of the Star
Trek franchises. He also
works locally in Portland for
the television series “The
Librarians” and “Grimm.”
The TNT lecture series
is a free event at the Fort
George Lovell Showroom
on the third Thursday of
each month. Doors open at 6
p.m., with lectures beginning
at 7 p.m. Seasonal beers on
tap, food and other beverag-
es are available for purchase.
Minors are welcome with an
accompanying adult.
For more information
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Propmaster Tim Oakley will
speak about props used in
films and TV on March 16 in
Astoria.
about this event or other
Clatsop County Historical
Society activities, call 503-
325-2203 or e-mail: cchs@
cumtux.org
The Clatsop County His-
torical Society is a 501(C)
(3) nonprofit educational or-
ganization dedicated to pre-
serving and presenting the
history of Clatsop County
Oregon and the surrounding
area. The society operates
the Flavel House Museum,
The Heritage Museum, the
Oregon Film Museum and
the Uppertown Firefighters
Museum.
ASTORIA — With the
deaths of iconic orca J28
and her calf in the fall of
2016, there are now just
80 southern resident orcas
in the Pacific Northwest.
Though orcas face
many threats to their
survival, their population
is directly linked to that of
their primary food source
— Chinook salmon — and
that’s where Oregon comes
into play.
Learn more about orcas
and what Oregonians can
do to help their surviv-
al from guest presenter
Quinn Read at the next
Nature Matters free com-
munity lecture, “Orcas
Need Oregonians.”
Read is the Northwest
Representative for Defend-
ers of Wildlife.
The event will take
place at 7 p.m. Thursday,
March 9 at the Fort George
Lovell Showroom, located
at 426 14th St.
Nature Matters is pre-
sented by Lewis & Clark
National Historical Park in
partnership with the North
Coast Watershed Asso-
ciation. Doors open at 6
p.m. Seating is limited, so
arrive early.
Food and beverages
are available for purchase
through the Taproom. All
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Whale researchers who track
the small endangered pop-
ulation of Puget Sound or-
cas say three whales are be-
lieved dead or missing since
last summer. The Center for
Whale Research says that as
of Oct. 28, there are only 80
animals.
ages are welcome.
Nature Matters is a live-
ly conversation about the
intersection of nature and
culture held on the second
Thursday of each month
from October through
May. Nature Matters is
hosted by Lewis and Clark
National Historical Park in
partnership with the North
Coast Watershed Associ-
ation, the Lewis & Clark
National Park Association,
and the Fort George.
Happy Hour
Tuesday-Friday
4pm-6pm and
8:30-Close
ASTORIA — The Northwest
Film Center will present the
Best of the 43rd Northwest
Filmmakers’ Festival at
7:30 p.m. Friday, March 10
at KALA, located at 1017
Marine Drive.
The festival is a carefully
selected cross-section of
filmmaking from the North-
west. The works included in
the program were chosen to
represent the quality, range
and vitality of filmmaking
in the region.
Nine films will be
screened, ranging from 2
to 21 minutes in length and
ranging in form from con-
ceptual and documentary to
animation and narrative.
Two filmmakers will
be present for a ques-
tion-and-answer session
following the screening.
Woodruff Laputka of Port-
land will talk about making
his 8-minute-long documen-
tary “Canned Fit.” Then,
Josh Lunden of Portland
will talk about his 6-min-
ute-long narrative “Modern
Dark.”
Established in 1971 as
a sister organization to the
Portland Art Museum, the
Northwest Film Center is a
place where individuals find
and cultivate their personal
voices as storytellers and
image makers, and audienc-
es explore the Northwest re-
gion and the world through
the big screen. Doors open
at 7 p.m. Admission is $8
at the door. Cocktails and
light fare will be available.
For more information, call
503-338-4878.
The films are as follows:
• “Modern Dark,” 6
minutes, by Josh Lunden of
Portland. In this narrative
film, a young man living in
the inner city attempts to
view the wide scope of the
universe through his child-
hood telescope.
• “Canned Fit,” 8
minutes, by Woodruff
Laputka of Portland. In this
documentary, sound artist
Christine Shorkhuber uses
an array of non-traditional
instruments to create min-
imalist melodies meant to
bring us a little closer to our
surroundings.
• “(Censored),” 8 min-
utes, by Isaiah Corey of
Seattle. In this narrative
film, a man’s life is forever
changed when his room-
mate introduces him to a
product he never knew he
needed.
• “Antipodes Rising,” 3
minutes, by Georg Koszu-
linski of Seattle. Travelling
through a tunnel on moun-
tain road in Alaska becomes
a portal for an alternate
vision of the Northwest.
• “Here Nor There,” 15
minutes, by Julia Hutch-
ings of Vancouver, British
Columbia. In this narrative
film, nothing is what it
seems as a private investi-
gator arrives at a funeral to
speak with the family of a
body he supposedly found.
• “Primal Flux,” 3
minutes, by Joan Gratz of
Portland. In this animat-
ed short film, colors and
shapes shift and morph as
images emerge and disperse
in a play on the nature of
conscious and unconscious
communication.
• “Ranger,” 8 minutes, by
Sandra Ignagni and Trevor
Meier of Vancouver, British
Columbia. This documentary
provides a portrait of the Ca-
nadian vessel M.V. Northern
Ranger, which has tranversed
the narrow straits and unpre-
dictable weather along the
remote Labrador coastline for
the last 30 years.
• “Me is Being Great,”
21 minutes, by Marshall
Granger of Missoula,
Montana. Sometimes when
relationships end among
the confusions of growing
up, one just might be able
to reconnect to their own
personal identity and be set
free themselves.