Skip to content
In accordance with the recent mandate from Oregon Governor Kate Brown, masks are required during Open-Air Cinema at OMSI. Masks continue to be required for all staff and visitors at the Portland Art Museum, including Venice VR Expanded.

Staff Directory

Director, Northwest Film Center
Curator, Film & New Media Portland Art Museum
Amy Dotson
email Amy

Head of Artist Services
Ben Popp
email Ben | 503-276-4222
Contact Ben about the Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival, Northwest Tracking programming, funding opportunities for filmmakers, and the Best of the Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival Tour. 

Head of External Affairs
December Carson
email December | 503-276-4276
Contact December with press inquiries, social media promotion, and community partnerships.

Development Manager
Rachel Record
email Rachel | 503-276-4254
Contact Rachel with questions about sponsorship opportunities and individual donations to the Film Center.

Head Projectionist
Arika Oglesbee
email Arika

Director Emeritus
Bill Foster

The Northwest Film Center recognizes and honors the Indigenous peoples of this region on whose ancestral lands the museum now stands. These include the Willamette Tumwater, Clackamas, Kathlemet, Molalla, Multnomah and Watlala Chinook Peoples and the Tualatin Kalapuya who today are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and many other Native communities who made their homes along the Columbia River. We also want to recognize that Portland today is a community of many diverse Native peoples who continue to live and work here. We respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous communities—past, present, future—and are grateful for their ongoing and vibrant presence.