3:15 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

The 99W

USA / G

Dir: Kendra Jacobson

SHORTS PROGRAM 22A - Documentary

The 99W is a love letter to independent cinema, told through the multi-generational story of one of Oregon’s three remaining Drive-In theaters. 

This film weaves archival footage with current interviews to illustrate the rocky history of a rapidly disappearing American institution.  The 99W examines the continued allure of the drive-in experience through the eyes of the owner, Brian Francis, ...and the people who wouldn’t dream of going anywhere else.

3:15 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

The Other Side of War

USA / G

Dir: Gracie Solis

SHORTS PROGRAM 22A - Documentary

This documentary delves into the life of a Vietnam veteran who was injured in the line of duty both physically, and mentally. He tells his story of coming home and shares what the phrase, 'welcome home' means to him….

Carl Kitchens was eighteen years old when he entered the 1967 U.S. Marine Corps boot camp at Paris Island, South Carolina. By nineteen, he had been deployed to Vietnam as a member of the Marine Corps League Detachment 970.

Three weeks after his 20th birthday, Carl was wounded in the same explosion that killed his best friend, Gary. The end of his fight in Vietnam marked the beginning of a much longer, much quieter war within himself.

3:15 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

Building a Cedar Strip Canoe

USA / G

Dir: Adam Koekkoek

SHORTS PROGRAM 22A - Documentary

This film is a montage of Adam Koekkoek's instructional internet video series for canoe building. Adam spent 8 months documenting the entire cedar strip canoe building process.

See Adam turn raw old growth cedar boards into a beautiful and functional boat.

4:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

Karma Knows - "Sugar"

USA / PG-13

Dir: Justin Frick

SHORTS PROGRAM 22B - Thrillers & Music Videos

A Music Video from Karma Knows, showing the highs & lows of "sugar". 

Visually exploring themes of Cotton Candy walls, Dingy Diners, Glittered bodies & a talking dog. Producer "AS_1S" (Jon Timchalk) joins Karma Knows with a cameo in the sugar world. 

4:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

DRTY DNCN - "Turn Up"

USA / PG

Dir: Ana Valenzuela

SHORTS PROGRAM 22B - Thrillers & Music Videos

A girl living in a boring black and white world discovers a colorful world of music, dancing and love in the Music Video "Turn Up" from DRTY DNCN.

4:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

Bury Me

USA / PG

Dir: Peter Russell

SHORTS PROGRAM 22B - Thrillers & Music Videos

Bury Me is the story of a young girl who is followed by a man with a strange request.

This suspense thriller (with a splash of horror) was inspired by campfire tales and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. 

4:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

Rider

USA / PG-13

Dir: Aaron Wasserteil

SHORTS PROGRAM 22B - Thrillers & Music Videos

Just because drivers and their passengers think they know each other's "names" and "ratings", ...it doesn't mean that everyone actually knows who they're sharing a ride with.

In RIDER, an uncomfortable reality is brought to life when an altercation between ride-share driver and passenger results in one night taking an unexpected turn.

4:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

Tutu Grande

USA / PG-13

Dir: Derek Sitter

SHORTS PROGRAM 22B - Thrillers & Music Videos

Pain is Temporary, Trauma Is Forever.

The tables are turned on the torturer In a mysterious backwoods warehouse, where a young man is about to discover that you can't go around and do whatever you like.

5:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

The Unidentified

USA / PG

Dir: Pearson Kunz

SHORTS PROGRAM 22C - Award Shorts

A coming-of-age narrative (in the skin of a documentary), “The Unidentified” begins when a dead body washes up in a small Columbia River Gorge town.

The mystery over the body’s identity throws three young protagonists into a journey for answers from a mystical Oracle. Searching for certainty in the midst of conflicting messages from the community, the three fear the apparent unimportance and ambiguity of their own identities as they come of age in the surreal world.

5:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

You and Me, Me and You

USA / G

Dir: Yang-Yang Wang

SHORTS PROGRAM 22C - Award Shorts

A woman must care for her estranged father as his dementia traps him in the months she ran away from home in this family drama.

5:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

The Secret Bonsai

USA / PG

Dir: Jen Elkington

SHORTS PROGRAM 22C - Award Shorts

Immigration is illegal, literature and music have been labeled “deranged and sick,” people are vanishing, food is scarce, and the poor are starving. In the midst of this repression and madness, a courageous woman has managed to cultivate a cherished mandarin tree. Hunted by robotic sentinels and using her mandarins as tributary, she chooses to risk her life in exchange for a precious gift in this fantasy film.

5:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

The Last Great American Whale

USA / PG-13

Dir: Alex Huebsch

SHORTS PROGRAM 22C - Award Shorts

John's just lost his child. His marriage is falling apart. His career is being taken over by younger, faster, smarter people. So what does one do when faced with the loss of nearly everything?

He flees his life for the freedom and adventure of the ocean and a dying American Dream. But a vicious circle always seems to bring him right back to where he started in this dramatic film.

6:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

Run

USA / PG-13

Dir: River Kuenzi

SHORTS PROGRAM 22D - Action & Horror Shorts

In this Sci-Fi action thriller, a struggling college student undergoes a "safe" government experiment in exchange for some money.

But how safe is it when intruders, blood, dirt, (and a lot of running) follow the experiment?

6:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

The Pick Up

USA / R

Dir: Taylor Morden

SHORTS PROGRAM 22D - Action & Horror Shorts

A young woman finds herself in a difficult situation and learns the hard way that you should never go anywhere alone...

6:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

Nostalgia

USA / R

Dir: Henry Chastain

SHORTS PROGRAM 22D - Action & Horror Shorts

Nostalgia is a psychological horror/drama film that obliquely follows the relationship between Marion and her husband Frank who begins exhibiting increasingly distant and erratic behavior.

6:30 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

Red Carpet Photo Event

Join the festival filmmakers, casts & crews, local press, staff & media photographers, and cinema fans …at the annual Red Carpet Photo Event. To be held at the OIFF Award Ceremony.

6:45 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

Award Ceremony

Cheer on all your favorite Award Winning filmmakers and performers, at the annual OIFF Awards!

The OIFF Award Ceremony is where fans can meet and celebrate with festival creators, at the largest and most legendary event of the festival.

Held each year in Portland, Oregon, this fun-filled evening is the main event in our celebration of the movie theaters and cities of Oregon, and where our festival honors the filmmakers, writers and performers from around the world, who have created the best independent cinema of the past season.

The Award Ceremony often sells out early. Get your tickets soon!

8:00 PM - 11:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

Filmmaker Reception Meet-Up

Our offical reception venue for OIFF/PORTLAND is the Night Light Lounge.

On 8pm-11pm on Saturday Sept. 22nd, the Oregon Independent Film Festival is holding our Filmmaker Reception meet-up at the Night Light Lounge.

This Southeast Clinton neighborhood favorite has cocktails, and a variety of entrees ...made from high quality, conscientiously sourced ingredients prepared with care & attention ...and all at surprisingly low prices.

The Night Light Lounge is the perfect place to go after the Awards Ceremony, ..before coming back to Clinton Street to see the Saturday evening films!

If you think will be coming to the Saturday 8pm-11pm reception at the Night Light Lounge, do the venue a favor and go to OIFF/Portland ticketing and click on the the free ticket this event.

That ticket has no real value, but it gives the venue a sense of how many are coming, so they can be sure to be well-stocked and well-staffed for all us stopping by to meet one another (and to meet our favorite stars and filmmakers too).

8:15 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

The Perfect Ass

USA / PG-13

Dir: Al Kline

In this comedy film, a successful Parisian businessman appears to have it all: A loving wife, a new promotion at work, and a circle of friends to confide in.

But his life changes forever when he meets a cocktail waitress and is immediately attracted to her perfect physical attribute - her derriere. He obsesses on the "perfect ass" and his world begins to unravel.

Will the businessman be able to control his impulses in time before he loses his marriage and his career?

9:00 PM - Saturday, Sept 22^nd 2018

Zilla and Zoe

USA / PG-13

Dir: Jessica Scalise

The feature film comedy Zilla and Zoe started with a script that was quarterfinalist in Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Screenwriting Contest and now filmed has turned into a movie that critics say "has the potential to become a classic family film" and "is a great first effort from a director ...of creativity and talent with …potential for future success".

In the film, 10-year-old Zoe is obsessed with making horror films, with a deadline for a big horror contest coming up! Zoe is determined to win the contest, But her father, concerned about her increasingly gory activities, orders her to stop making horror films and film her sister's wedding instead.

Zoe has no other choice: to win the contest of her dreams, she will have to turn her sister's wedding into a horror film. Ultimately, this hilarious indie comedy is about family, weddings, the city of Portland, …and the importance of accepting ourselves for who we really are.