AN EVENING OF CONVERSATION WITH THREE PORTLAND FILMMAKERS
HOST NORA ROBERTSON WITH ARTHUR BRADFORD, ALISSA NICOLE CREAMER AND ANDY BLUBAUGH
The New Oregon Interview Series brought three prominent filmmakers together for an evening of intimate conversation. MTV’s How’s Your News?
creator Arthur Bradford, experimental filmmaker Andy Blubaugh and
cultural/human interest documentary-maker Alissa Nicole Creamer sat
down to discuss their work and how our film culture is evolving on July
29th at Urban Grind East. A director and Sundance alumnus, Blubaugh’s
experimental short films have screened at over a hundred film festivals
worldwide and he was named as one of Filmmaker magazine’s 2007 25 New
Faces of Independent Film. Debuting her first feature, NEVER TO CRY,
with Barcelona’s TV3-Catalunya, Alissa Nicole Creamer has made numerous
short-format documentary projects for NGOs in the U.S., Africa, Europe,
and South America. Author of Dogwalker and an O. Henry Award recipient,
Arthur Bradford’s feature film How's Your News? about adults with
disabilities conducting man-on-the-street interviews was broadcast on
HBO, PBS, and the British Channel 4 before an MTV series based on the
documentary aired in 2009.The Oregonian's Barry Johnson remarked in Portland Art Watch "at
this point, we don't know whether we're headed back where we left off
18 months ago or whether we're going somewhere completely new. That
question is at the center of the New Oregon Interview Series."
Host Nora Robertson conceived the New Oregon Interview Series to
find out how Portland’s blossoming creative culture has developed and
where it’s headed. “A lot has changed in the past decade,” Robertson
says. “The best perspective comes from the artists themselves—and the
designers, writers, chefs, and venues who make things happen here.”
Audiences
can sit in and join the discussions at eight live events, all slated
for the last Wednesday of each month at Urban Grind East, near NE 20th
Ave. and Sandy Boulevard. Over forty interviews will be published in a
printed anthology; some are currently available online. Letterpress artist and bookmaker Clare Carpenter of Tiger Food Press will also discuss her work creating
a limited-edition letterpress broadside based on the interviews.
LISTEN FOR YOURSELF
Arthur
Bradford’s feature film How's Your News?
about adults with disabilities
conducting man-on-the-street interviews was broadcast on HBO, PBS, and
British channel, Channel 4 before an MTV series based on the
documentary aired in 2009. Since 2006, he has served as director of
Camp Jabberwocky, the longest running sleepover camp for adults with
disabilities in the United States. He also is the author of a short
story collection Dogwalker and a contributor to McSweeney’s Future
Dictionary of America.
His fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Esquire, Zoetrope, Dazed And
Confused magazine, and BOMB, and The O. Henry Awards Anthology.
Alissa Nicole Creamer has been recording images with a camera since
age 5. Motivated by exploring creative methods to address cultural and
humanitarian themes, Alissa began working with video in 2001. After
graduating as valedictorian
from UCLA School of Arts and Architecture in 2003, she completed her MA
in Documentary Film in Barcelona, Spain with the support of a Rotary
International Ambassadorial Scholarship. Alissa has received funding to
shoot international still photography and short-format documentary
projects for NGOs in the U.S., Africa, Europe, and South America.
Filmed in Angola and Spain, NEVER TO CRY, a co-production with
TV3-Catalunya, marked her debut as a feature film director. She is
currently at work on a documentary tentatively titled DANCE INDIA, her
second broadcast production and a recipient of a Regional Arts and
Culture Council project grant.
