First Annual Portland Women's Film Festival May 15, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Tara Johnson-Medinger
[email protected]

Sour Apple Productions, in partnership with Film Action Oregon, is proud
to present the 2008 Portland Women’s Film Festival Schedule of Events.
The mission of the Portland Women’s Film Festival is to showcase the
very best contemporary international independent films made by women,
promote and create opportunities for women working in all areas of the
film industry, and educate the greater community through filmmaker
panels and hands-on workshops.

Spanning May 15-18, and held at Portland, Oregon’s historic Hollywood
Theatre, POW Fest will throw a rockin’ kick-off party at The Cleaners at
the Ace Hotel, exhibit select women-made movies, moderate several
exciting filmmaker panels, host an expo of women-owned and served
businesses, offer a day-long screenwriting workshop, and present a
variety of emPOWering Q&As with the numerous filmmakers who will be in
attendance. In addition, the festival will spotlight a retrospective of
the Guest of Honor, female indie director pioneer Allison Anders’,
award-winning feature film work, including Gas Food Lodging
(Co-Presented by Portland State University) and Border Radio (Presented
by Video Vérité).

The four days of screenings will include: a Local Filmmaker Night,
featuring Person, Place or Thing, directed by Elle Martini, and starring
Zoe McLellan (Dirty, Sexy Money) as a drifter who finds comfort in her
invisibility living on the streets; a “Don’t Bring The Kids” Shorts
Program, featuring Why We Wax, co-directed by Kimberly M. Wetherell and
Amy Axelson, about the motivation to rip out the hair “down there”; a
Family Day, featuring a Young Filmmaker’s Program as well as the feature
documentary, JUMP!, directed by Helen Hood Scheer, about competitive
jump roping; a “Many Faces of Women” Shorts Program, featuring Like a
Ship in the Night, by Melissa Thompson, about Irish women who have to
travel to England to have abortions as it is illegal in their country;
an Animation Series sponsored by LAIKA, featuring Zoologic, by Nicole
Mitchell, about a fat, little penguin that threatens the absolute rule
of a fussy zookeeper; the closing night feature, Cake Eaters, directed
by Mary Stuart Masterson, a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that
explores the lives of two interconnected families coming to terms with
love in the face of loss; and much, much more!

Please visit www.powfest.com to see the complete four-day schedule of
screenings (including titles and directors) and events.

POW Fest is produced by Sour Apple Productions in partnership with Film
Action Oregon.

Official Website: http://www.powfest.com