Event
Doc-Maker Happy Hour
Sat Sep 28: 3.00pm
Duration: 2h 30m
Instructor: Amy Benson
Festival - Local Sightings Film Festival 2019: Workshops & Panels
About
** Co-presented with Portland-based NW Documentary and Seattle Documentary Association (SeaDoc) **
Community is vital to nonfiction storytelling; the Pacific Northwest has a plethora of talented, experienced filmmakers, and yet they often work separately from one another. Portland filmmakers collaboration in NW Documentarys Canopy project (selections from which will be screening at 8pm this night!) is an example of artists creating independent short films as part of a larger film module. Join filmmakers from the Canopy project at the happy hour to drink, be merry, and discuss project models that can bring filmmakers together for low stress, fun, inspirational collaboration.
About Canopy Stories
** This event will feature two films from the Canopy Stories anthology. **
Every tree has a story. They tell the stories of families, of neighborhoods, of transformations long forgotten. Tree stories are community stories.
"Rosa's Tree" by David Hedberg
Portlands first Heritage Tree, an American elm, represents every tree in the city. Only a few mighty oaks and firs that survived Stumptowns pioneer days are older. This elm, planted in the 1870s by Rosa F. Burrell, stands as one of the citys oldest features. The film explores one historians quest to find and document this and other historic trees.
"Palm Portland" by Kia Anne Geraths
People tend to associate palm trees with vacation or the heavily lined streets of California or Las Vegas. Yet Palm Trees make quite a few appearances in the gray, rainy city of Portland, Oregon. While considered by many to be a horticultural paradise that can handle a wide variety of plant species, including Palms, many find their presence a disturbance in PDX.
Canopy Stories is NW Documentarys first anthology film project, featuring 12 stories made by 11 Portland filmmakers. Each film focuses on a specific tree to tell a story. The stories range from activists camping in trees to strangers caring for the ghosts of pioneers, from globe trekking botanists in search of rare specimens to everyday citizens transforming their neighborhood into an urban oasis.
Read about each individual film in this anthology at canopystoriesfilm.com
Amy Benson
Local documentarian and Local Sightings juror
Amy owns Nonfiction Media, a production company based in Seattle where she produces, shoots and edits films telling the stories of organizations around the globe. Since 2008, Amy has been working on a documentary trilogy about one family in Nepal. Drawing the Tiger, the first film, was a granted project of the Sundance Institute, Fork Films and recipient of the Points North Fellowship. It premiered at Hot Docs in April 2015 and screened in over 40 festivals worldwide. It was awarded the Best Feature Jury prize by Northwest Film Forum, the Documentary Feature Award from CAAM Fest, the Jury Award for the Best Documentary at the Asiatica Film Festival and the UNICEF award at Film South Asia. The sequel, The Eldest Son, premiered at the Kathmandu Mountain Film Festival in 2017. Amy is in production for the third film in the series Literate, focusing on the first educated generation in the family and filmed by the subjects themselves.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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