PROTECT WHAT YOU LOVE: New Conservation Films
May
3
7:30 PM19:30

PROTECT WHAT YOU LOVE: New Conservation Films

The Portland EcoFilm Festival invites you to be inspired by a program of new short films celebrating diverse approaches to conservation around the world. Directors and special guests will join us after the films for a community conversation about conservation. (Total running time: 75 minutes)

Includes the winner of this season’s Best Conservation Film Award, DR. MARK: PANGOLIN HERO and the winner of this season’s EcoHero Award, Jojo Nyaribo.

Sponsored by Oregon Wildlife Foundation

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Creature Feature: THE NIGHT VISITORS and CREATURES OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE with WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
May
8
7:30 PM19:30

Creature Feature: THE NIGHT VISITORS and CREATURES OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE with WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

Come learn about—and celebrate—some of the wonderful and mysterious creatures with whom we are fortunate to share this strange and beautiful world.

This program includes our 2024 Best Feature Film Award winner, THE NIGHT VISITORS, screening with CREATURES OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE and WHAT’S FOR DINNER? (Total running time: 91 minutes)

A virtual conversation with director Michael Gitlin (THE NIGHT VISITORS) follows.

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Indigenous Voices: DEMON MINERAL
May
10
7:30 PM19:30

Indigenous Voices: DEMON MINERAL

The Portland EcoFilm Festival proudly presents the Portland area premiere of DEMON MINERAL, an altogether real and somehow dreamlike feature-length documentary depicting the Indigenous struggle for vital living space in the radioactive desert of the American Southwest. This is the second program in our 2024 Indigenous Voices series, which centers Indigenous knowledge, accomplishments, stories, and struggles.

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Social Ecology Films: DOPE IS DEATH with director Mia Donovan
May
12
2:00 PM14:00

Social Ecology Films: DOPE IS DEATH with director Mia Donovan

In 1973, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America.

A live community conversation with director Mia Donovan and special guests from the film will follow the screening.

Our Portland area premiere of the inspiring feature-length documentary, DOPE IS DEATH, is sponsored by The AfroVillage PDX.

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Indigenous Voices: A REFLECTION OF LIFE
May
16
7:30 PM19:30

Indigenous Voices: A REFLECTION OF LIFE

The Portland EcoFilm Festival proudly presents the Portland area premiere of A REFLECTION OF LIFE, a multifaceted feature-length documentary exploring water issues in the Pacific Northwest, while noting broader issues facing the entire West. This is the third program in our 2024 Indigenous Voices series, which centers Indigenous knowledge, accomplishments, stories, and struggles.

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AfroFuturist Ecology: NEPTUNE FROST
May
18
2:00 PM14:00

AfroFuturist Ecology: NEPTUNE FROST

The Portland EcoFilm Festival is thrilled to present NEPTUNE FROST, a musical masterpiece of ecological AfroFuturism by Saul Williams and Unisia Uzeyman. Don’t miss the opportunity to experience this film on the big screen, in the main auditorium of The Hollywood Theatre!

Presented in partnership with Oregon Humanities

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NEW INDIGENOUS SHORT FILMS
Jun
15
3:00 PM15:00

NEW INDIGENOUS SHORT FILMS

The Portland EcoFilm Festival proudly presents the Portland area premiere of five new short films that center Indigenous knowledge, accomplishments, stories, and struggles. This is the fourth program in our 2024 Indigenous Voices series. (Total running time: 75 minutes)

This program features the winner of our 2024 Best Short Film Award, TINY, and the winner of our 2024 Visionary Film Award, OUR GRANDMOTHER THE INLET.

A community conversation with directors and other honored guests will follow the films.

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Indigenous Voices: NEW SALMON MOVIES
Apr
21
3:00 PM15:00

Indigenous Voices: NEW SALMON MOVIES

The Portland EcoFilm Festival presents COVENANT OF THE SALMON PEOPLE and TO HEAL A FOREST: two new documentaries about salmon and their connection to Indigenous and First Nations people of the Pacific Northwest. This program is part of our Indigenous Voices series, which centers Indigenous knowledge, accomplishments, stories, and struggles. (Total running time: 71 minutes)

We will be joined by honored Nimiipuu/Nez Perce guests, who will share perspectives on salmon following the films.

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Bong Joon Ho's THE HOST on 35mm
Mar
19
7:30 PM19:30

Bong Joon Ho's THE HOST on 35mm

From the acclaimed director of PARASITE, SNOWPIERCER, and the highly anticipated MICKEY 17 comes a masterpiece of comedic eco-horror presented on 35mm film in the main auditorium of the historic Hollywood Theatre! If you haven’t seen THE HOST like this, have you ever really seen it?

Sponsored by Crag Law Center

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THE ART OF ECOLOGY: New Ecological Art Films
Mar
17
2:00 PM14:00

THE ART OF ECOLOGY: New Ecological Art Films

THE ART OF ECOLOGY features the Portland area premieres of five short films that approach ecological storytelling with particularly artful and imaginative spirit. Themes and topics include: primeval forests, tree frogs, the passage of time, sense of place, intersections of disability art with ecology, and hopes for the future. (Total running time: 70 minutes)

Several of the directors will join us afterwards (virtually) for a conversation.

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