2021 Betty Bowen Award Finalist Howard L. Mitchell has received a SPECIAL COMMENDATION AWARD of over $1,500, added by the committee. Mitchell was chosen from a pool of 420 applicants from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho to compete for the $24,500 in awards. Howard L. GATO Mitchell analyzes the relationships between identity, class, and power in…
Police Brutality and Its Links to the Housing Crisis Are Themes in the Portland-Set Short “Forgive Us Our Debts” The film screens at Cinema Unbound Drive-In at Zidell Yards this weekend. DEBT OF GRATITUDE: Forgive Us Our Debts is a much-needed examination of Portland’s history of discrimination By Chance Solem-Pfeifer | Published September 22 at 7:14…
The TriMet Trilogy Portland filmmaker El Gato Negro wants hipsters to have a heart. STRANGERS ON THE BUS: The first installment in El Gato Negro’s TriMet Trilogy. Howard Mitchell is old school. The Portland filmmaker behind the TriMet Trilogy showing at Mission Theater this Sunday cites such deadly earnest (and just plain dead) heavyweights…