Willamette Week

Get Your Reps In: This Week’s Theme Is Found Footage, a Low-Budget and Naturalistic Subgenre

Evan Rachel Wood Is a Miserable Con Artist in “Kajillionaire” While Ruby Rose Portrays a Manic Deathbot in “The Doorman”

A Portland Filmmaker Is Highlighting One Black Horror Film a Day in October to Educate and Fundraise

The Portland Film Festival Moves Online and Into Homes During the Pandemic

Like most screenings in 2020, those that are part of the Portland Film Festival are primarily taking place virtually rather than in person because of COVID-19, which may actually make this year’s event more accessible than ever. Thanks to a Comcast sponsorship, subscribers to the cable provider will be able to watch some entries from their own home for free. Viewers can get to the content by saying “Portland Film Festival” into their X1 or Flex voice remote. In addition to films, there is scheduled to be twice-daily director’s chats, workshops and educational panels.

Portland Filmmaker Gregg Hale Produced One of the All-Time Great Horror Movies. But in 2020, Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction.

Hale—who grew up in Kentucky but moved to Portland in 2009—has continued writing, directing and producing movies, primarily in the horror genre and including a few Blair Witch sequels, for his production company, Haxan Films. Right now, though, he finds himself competing with something far more frightening than anything he could put onscreen: reality.

Get Your Reps In: This Week’s Theme Is East Asian Horror, a Massively Influential Subgenre

Aliens Invade Just When a Couple Decides to Unplug in “Save Yourselves!” and Sally Hawkins Stars as a Woman With Mental Illness in “Eternal Beauty”

A Portland-Set Take on “Peter Pan” Has Empowered a Group of Young People Who Were Houseless

Get Your Reps In: This Week’s Theme Is Creature Features

“Young Hearts” Is a Coming-of-Age Tale by Portland-Raised Sibling Directors Is Distinctly Gen Z