Imagining Home in Northwest Film & Video Festival
As part of the 36th Northwest Film Festival, the Northwest Film Center presents Imagining Home, a feature film by Sue Arbuthnot and Richard Wilhelm, spanning five years and following the struggle to rebuild the Portland public housing community Columbia Villa into New Columbia. Imagining Home follows several Columbia Villa families from displacement to relocation back into New Columbia, a federal HOPE VI urban redevelopment project. Through their stories, we learn how resident involvement is crucial to a growing national movement in community building. Although New Columbia has drawn critics, it is now hailed internationally as a bold advance in urban planning and community building.
36th Northwest Film & Video Festival, Saturday, November 14, 4:00 p.m. For ticket information and directions, click here.
2010 OREGON ARTS COMMISSION MEDIA ARTS FELLOWSHIP
On opening night of the Northwest Film & Video Festival, Sue was awarded the 2010 OAC Fellowship along with two other Oregon filmmakers, Jeff Streich and Vanessa Renwick. We are, of course, thrilled with this acknowledgment and will use the momentum from this award to continue the postproduction of our feature documentary Amber Waves & Checkered Flags, which will be finished late spring 2010.
