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October 25, 2017
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Nikki Williams realizes that her black neighborhood has been “obliterated” by gentrification in a
scene from ‘Priced Out,’ a new documentary from Portland filmmaker Cornelius Swart, showing
Wednesday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. at Whitsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum for the opening night
of the Northwest Film Center’s Northwest Filmmakers Festival.
‘Priced Out’ 20 Years in the Making
Documentary premieres at NW filmmakers festival
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Portland’s housing crisis and
the impacts on Portland’s black
community is the backdrop for
a new documentary by Portland
filmmaker Cornelius Swart to be
screened Wednesday, Nov. 1 on
the opening night of the North-
west Filmmakers Festival.
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Passage,” a 2002 film about his
northeast Portland neighbor-
hood, which expressed hope for
a community plagued by vio-
lence. Fast-forward 15 years, he
finds a much-changed landscape
in his 2017 documentary “Priced
Out: 15 Years of Gentrification
in Portland, Oregon.”
Facing displacement in a rap-
idly gentrifying city, Swart ex-
plores how rising property values
have affected the lives and rela-
tionships of his once-dominant
African-American neighborhood.
The screening of “Priced Out”
will be on Wednesday, Nov. 1 at
7 pm at the Portland Art Muse-
um’s Whitsell Auditorium, with
a reception before and after the
screening with filmmakers, crew,
and production participants.
The Northwest Filmmakers
Festival runs Nov. 1-5 at Whit-
sell Auditorium at the Portland
Art Museum and at the Skype
Live Studio at 1211 S.W. Fifth
Ave., suite 600. For more infor-
mation and a complete lineup,
visit nwfilm.org.