The Northwest Film Center announces PIFF 2.0, reimagining the final days of the 43rd Portland International Film Festival. From October 1 to 3, 2020, PIFF 2.0 will present 10 films, talks and happy hours from Northwest and International filmmakers, offered in virtual screening and events as well as in new additions to the Film Center’s popular Cinema Unbound Drive-In series.

This year’s Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) was sadly cut short due to the pandemic in early March. PIFF 43 was a creative, multi-media feast that spotlighted artists both around the corner and across the globe—embracing the future of storytelling in all its forms. With PIFF 43, the Northwest Film Center created a bold, new artistic vision—Cinema Unbound—to reimagine what the Center can be. In the spirit of continuing to redefine the notion of cinema and visual storytelling for our community, we present PIFF 43 – 2.0.

The NWFC will wrap up this year’s festival six months later with a mission of continuing to expand audiences, and to engage with both new releases and films and talks previously featured in the March edition of the festival.

The need for both local and global impactful visual storytelling is now more important than ever. At this moment, non-profits, museums, and spaces all over the globe are turning to moving images, new media, and forms of audio storytelling—seeing their importance as communication tools for connectivity. These cinematic stories live on our phones, in our public spaces, and in cultural settings in a democratized way and have never been more vital as a source of creativity.

Even prior to this global pandemic, the Northwest Film Center saw the future of cinematic storytelling as something bigger than just going to a movie at a theatre or attending a class—and continued that vision this summer by presenting the Cinema Unbound Drive-In, Venice VR Expanded, and opening Virtual Cinema to new audiences.

“While we can’t go back to the way things were, in the spirit of PIFF, we’re offering ten films, talks and happy hours from Northwest and International filmmakers to bring some closure to the festival and open a door to next year’s festival,” remarked Amy Dotson, Director of the Northwest Film Center and Portland Art Museum Curator of Film and New Media.

PIFF 2.0 FAQs

GENERAL ADMISSION PRICES
PIFF 2.0 Cinema Unbound Drive-In Screenings – $35-$55 per car.
PIFF 2.0 Virtual Screenings – ticket prices vary for each individual screening.
The PIFF 2.0 Virtual Screening of Where the House Was is free for everyone.
PIFF 2.0 TALKS are FREE for everyone.
* Vouchers to the Whitsell Auditorium are not valid for PIFF 2.0 screenings.

THE CINEMA UNBOUND DRIVE-IN
Zidell Yards – 3030 SW Moody Avenue, Portland, OR 97201
For questions about drive-in tickets please contact the Ticket Tomato customer service team at 1-800-820-9884 or info@tickettomato.com

NWFC MEMBERS

PIFF 2.0 Cinema Unbound Drive-IN
Director-level members and above get into one free drive-in screening of their choice during PIFF 2.0.
Silver Screen Club Members, Friends, Supporters, and New Wave Members receive a $5 discount to any screening at the Cinema Unbound Drive-In.

PIFF 2.0 Virtual Screenings
Silver Screen Club Members, Friends, Supporters, and New Wave Members receive a $5 discount to the Virtual Screening of Pahokee at PIFF 2.0.
Silver Screen Club Members, Friends, Supporters, and New Wave Members may watch the Virtual Screenings of Vitalina Varela & Martin Eden for FREE.
*Martin Eden is limited to the first 100 screenings.

Members will be emailed their codes.

* Vouchers to the Whitsell Auditorium are not valid for PIFF 2.0 screenings.

PIFF 2.0 NEW WAYS OF SEEING WATCH LIST
These films were originally slated to screen during PIFF 43 and are now available on VOD.

Children of the Sea – Available on Netflix
Directed by Ayumu Watanabe
Japan • 2019 • 120 mins.
in Japanese with English subtitles

Bacurau – Available on Amazon Prime
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
Brazil/France • 2019 • 131 mins.
in Portuguese with English subtitles

Clementine – Available Oscilloscope
Directed by Lara Gallagher
United States • 2019 • 90 mins.