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March 11, 2015
Arts &
Entertainment
Women in Film
POWFest puts
spotlight on
next generation
The Portland Oregon Women’s
Film Festival, also known as
POWFest, opens Thursday,
March 12 and runs through Sun-
day, March 15 at The Hollywood
Theatre in northeast Portland.
Tickets are $8 to $10 or $40 for a
festival pass and premium access
to all festival activities.
POWFest is the only film festi-
val in Portland exclusively plac-
ing a spotlight on women direc-
tors with a goal to eliminate the
gender disparity that exists for
women working in the film indus-
try.
Dedicated to creating profes-
sional development and network-
ing opportunities for women film-
makers of every discipline and skill
level, each year, the festival seeks
to showcase the work of women
directors from around the globe
while strengthening the commu-
nity of women making films; en-
couraging the next generation of
A new generation of filmmakers from area high schools will have
two films they produced screened at the Portland Oregon
Women’s Film Festival.
female filmmakers.
POWGirls 2015, for example, a
filmmaking workshop for girls
from area high schools, was suc-
cessful in conceiving, writing, film-
ing and editing two films – “Great
Expectations” and “Words of
Wisdom,” both which will screen
on Sunday, March 15 at 3 p.m.
In addition to incorporating the
voices of this next generation of
young filmmakers into the festi-
val, POWFest programmers have
curated a compelling line up of
thought-provoking, inspiring
films. A total of nearly 65 selec-
tions will screen over a period of
4 days.
As always, the schedule in-
cludes stimulating content to en-
gage the audience through con-
versations with the over 45 direc-
tors in attendance; including lo-
cal directors Heather Harlow, Lara
Gallagher, Hope Alexander, Teresa
Drilling and Janique Robillard.
For a complete list of program-
ming and schedule details, visit
powfest.com.
Back Porch Country and Blues
Nashville's Adia Victoria - who
Rolling Stone recently picked as
"an artist you need to know" –
brings her band to Portland for a
performance Sunday, March 22 at
the Aladdin Theater in southeast
Portland.
A “back porch blues swamp
lady howlin’ at the moon” is the
description this rising country
star gives on her Facebook page.
Adia Victoria brings her
blues and country band to
Portland for a Sunday,
March 22 concert at the
Aladdin Theater.
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Her new track entitled "Sea Of
Sand" is the follow up to her de-
but "Stuck In The South.”
Ask her about her music and
she says she doesn't seek to
fetishiz e the South as so many
others do, but rather boldly and
starkly sing about her experience
growing up to immigrant parents
in South Carolina.