Northwest Likes Their Hookers Dead!

Oh, happy news! Oh, happy day! We just received word this morning from festival manager, Thomas Phillipson, that Dead Hooker in a Trunk has been accepted in the 37th Northwest Film & Video Festival in Portland. The Opening Weekend will be November 5th to 7th with a big party and the screening of all shorts. The festival runs from Novemeber 5th to the 13th. More details as we find out when Hooker will screen. Haven't heard about NW Film & Video Fest before? Here's to get you up to date --

"A juried survey of new moving image arts by independent Northwest film and video makers, the Festival draws over 300 entries in all genres each year and is judged by a prominent filmmaker, curator or critic. Now in it's 37th year, the Festival provides a forum where outstanding independent work receives public recognition, critical appraisal, and an engaged and enthusiastic regional audience. Past judges have included Gus Van Sant, Matt Groening, Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, Bill Plympton, Dan Ireland, Karen Cooper of Filmforum, B. Ruby Rich, Amy Taubin, Jim Hoberman, and John Cooper, Sundance and Outfest programmer. Generally, 30-45 shorts, features, and documentaries are screened during the Festival, then 10-15 shorts are selected for the Best of the Northwest Tour program which travels the following year throughout the Northwest to media arts centers, museums, arts councils, and universities. Total audience exceeds 6000."

It looks like a very cool, very fun festival. Events include: workshops, BarCamp, and parties - super killer parties that you should be perfecting your party-face for in the upcoming weeks. Here is a list of the selected films --

"10 YEAR OLD PIZZA / Andrew Ellmaker

2ND HAND CINEMA / Aaron Bourget

A BUMP WAS A PEARL / Johanna Hibbard

A MOMENT'S REVERIE / Tess Martin

BAD WRITING / Vernon Lott

BEAUTY IN FUNCTION / Nicolas Arms

BLANCO / Timothy David Orme

BROOKE & PATTY TALK ABOUT LIFE PART 7 / Jim Lowry

BUMMER SUMMER / Zach Weintraub

COINED / Elijah M. Hasan

CROSSINGS / Brian Libby

DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK / Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska

DEAR PETER / Orland Nutt

FACING THE STORM: STORY OF THE AMERICAN BISON / Doug Hawes-Davis

FATHER SON HOLY SPIRIT / Stephen Friederick

FIELD GUIDE TO NOVEMBER DAYS / Nick Peterson, Mary Defreese

FROG / Austin Andrews

GUILTY EXCEPT FOR INSANITY / Jan Haaken

HOW EUNICE GOT HER BABY / Ana Valine

INTO DARKNESS / John Waller

LANDSCAPES / Laurel Degutis

MODERN VIEWS: A CONVERSATION ON NORTHWEST MODERN ARCHITECTURE / Boaz Ashkenazy, David Miller

MUMBLES / Rick Raxlen

MY VOYAGE TO EGYPT / Ian Berry

OAKS / David Cress

POINT NO POINT / Jennifer Campbell

ROBIER TALKS ABOUT LIFE PART 28 / Jim Lowry

SAVAGE / Lisa Jackson

SHI-SHI-ETKO / Kate Kroll

SHOT ON BLOOD: KOZMIKONIC ELECTRONICA / Oliver Hockenhull

SHUT UP AND RIDE / Michael Ward

STUFF / Lawrence Johnson

THE ADULTS IN THE ROOM / Andrew Blubaugh

THE THOMAS BEALE CIPHER / Andrew S. Allen

THE TRUE BELIEVERS / Nathaniel Bennett

TWO BEDS / Kanako Wynkoop

WHO THE HELL IS ROBERT RONNIE BRANAMAN / Guy Borges, Patrick Rosenkranz"

Such a beautiful event, so many cool films - please do come on out if you can and let us know what you think about it. It's a hop, skip, and a jump (not our preferred method of travel) from our hometown, we're just in pre-production right now, but we're going to see if we can move around our schedule to make it! More info to come, boys and girls - hope you are having a great October.

~Sylv