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In their defense of self-defense

The film ‘Out in the Night’ tells the stories of four young, LGBTQ women of color who protected themselves from violence only to be prosecuted, maligned and imprisoned Ten years ago, Patreese Johnson, a black 19-year-old from New Jersey, was a self-desc ...

5 Oct 2016 - Sarah Hansell
The price of peace for S. Brian Willson

COMMENTARY | A new documentary tells the story of the Portland peace activist and Vietnam veteran “We have assumed the name of peacemakers,” wrote the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the beloved Jesuit prophet, author and activist who died in April, “but we have be ...

28 Jun 2016 - Martha Gies
A conversation about public drug use

Street Roots to co-host documentary screening, panel discussion on safe injection sites Portland, we have a public injection problem. Public parks, playgrounds and walkways frequented by drug users are littered with hazardous used syringes. People using ...

14 Jun 2016 - Emily Green
Filmmaker: How right-wing media brainwashed my dad

Jen Senko explains the ‘epidemic’ of conservative media indoctrination — how it originated, how it divides us, and how to respond Jen Senko acknowledges that brainwashing is a strong term, but it’s the one she thinks best describes what happened to her fa ...

3 Apr 2016 - Joanne Zuhl
Life of glamour — and homelessness

Mark Reay has acted for HBO, modeled for Vogue and worked with Martin Scorsese. He is also homeless. A typical week for model, actor and photographer Mark Reay — a debonair, 6-foot-3, 56-year-old — is spent shooting at New York Fashion Week, appearing in ...

11 Sep 2015 - Steven MacKenzie
Documenting drag: Jinkx Monsoon

Filmmaker Alex Berry’s documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" tells the story of Portland’s Jerick Hoffer — aka Jinkx Monsoon It’s about gender. It’s about healing. It’s about a drag queen. Seattle-based filmmaker Alex Berry is the director of the do ...

14 Jul 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
An impenetrable force: Reflecting on the Portland police union, past and present

In the new documentary “ Arresting Power,” which premiered at the Northwest Film Center in January, there is a 1981 film clip of Portland police commissioner Charles Jordan in heated dialogue with outraged citizens protesting a blatant act of racial haras ...

24 Feb 2015 - Martha Gies
Portland filmmaker Brian Lindstrom goes behind bars

Watch Brian Lindstrom’s recent films and it’s clear the importance the filmmaker places on compassion. “Finding Normal” is about recovering addicts who reach out to help others through recovery. “ Alien Boy ” explores issues of police accountability in th ...

6 Dec 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Portland-based film "American Winter" gets Emmy nod

“ American Winter,” the documentary film about the trauma of modern poverty through the eyes of eight Portland families, has been nominated for an Emmy. The film originally aired on HBO, but it has been shown in theaters across the country and continues t ...

20 Aug 2014 - Joanne Zuhl