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Kadazia Allen-Perry uses her debilitating illness as a way to explore what it means to follow
your dreams in “Chronic Means Forever,” one of the films getting a screening at the 44th
Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival.
Northwest Filmmakers Showcase
Festival brings array of
short and feature films
D arleen o rtega
An outstanding array of short and fea-
ture-length films produced by local artists
highlight the 44th Northwest Filmmakers’
Festival, opening Wednesday, Nov. 1 and run-
ning through Sunday, Nov. 5.
Opening night features “Priced Out,” a 7
p.m. documentary about gentrification in Port-
land. Director Cornelius Swart made a film
about his northeast Portland neighborhood 15
years ago, and now returns to find a much-
changed landscape. His former hopes for revi-
talization of a community plagued by violence
are answered by displacement of the African
American community. The film inquires into
the history of this rapidly gentrifying city, and
offers African American Portlanders an oppor-
tunity to share their memories of a community
that the city did not seek to protect or value,
and how rising property values have affect-
ed them. Swart’s film invites inquiry into the
price of progress for the elite few.
Other featured documentaries include
“Pow Wow,” (5 p.m. on Nov. 1) an exam-
ination of place juxtaposing lives of par-
ty-goers in a private community on former
Native American land in Palm Springs with
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the story of a 1908 manhunt involving a Na-
tive American man who outran a mounted
posse on foot across 500 miles of desert;
“The Gentleman Bank Robber: The Story
of Butch Lesbian Freedom Fighter rita bo
brown,” about an unusual bank robber in ru-
ral Oregon (5:30 p.m. on Nov. 2); “Chronic
Means Forever,” in which black filmmaker
Kadazia Allen-Perry uses a debilitating ill-
ness as a way to explore her relationship
with her body and with her particular, un-
captured piece of black experience (2 p.m.
on Nov. 5); and “Proof of Loyalty,” about
the prejudice and discrimination faced by
Japanese Americans who fought for the U.S.
in World War II (4:30 p.m. on Nov. 5).
Several narrative films are also featured, in-
cluding “The Watchman’s Canoe,” the story a
girl of indigenous heritage whose fight for ac-
ceptance into a boys-only group spurs a spir-
itual journey into Native American story and
belief (11:30 a.m. on Nov. 5).
Festival information is available at nwfilm.
org. Films will be screened at Whitsell Audito-
rium in the Portland Art Museum and at Skype
Live Studio.
Darleen Ortega is a contributor to the Port-
land Observer and her movie review column
Opinionated Judge appears regularly in our
publication. Find her movie blog at opinion-
atedjudge.blogspot.com.