THE 35TH NORTHWEST FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
PRESENTS PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS FILM EVENT
November 11, 2008
The Northwest Film Center’s annual Northwest Film & Video Festival screens two films about the Portland Trail Blazers for a special sports film evening. The film program takes place on November 11 and includes Don Zavin’s film FAST BREAK (1978), which focuses on the Blazers during the 1977 NBA World Championship and the world premiere of MANIA (2008), directed by Dan Schaefer, which chronicles the history of the Trail Blazers through interviews with its owners, stars and fans. An audience Q&A with Dan Schaefer and special guests will take place between the films.
The Northwest Film Center’s annual Northwest Film & Video Festival is the region’s premiere showcase of new work by artists living in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia. Now in its 35th year, the Festival is the nation’s longest running regional film and video event and remains among the few that have a touring program that brings festival highlights to audiences all year long.
The Festival begins Friday, November 7 with a screening of Festival Shorts followed by the Opening Night party at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel. The Festival continues through Saturday, November 15 with a full schedule of screenings, workshops, discussions and social events celebrating the work filmmakers of the Northwest.
FILMS
6:30 PM
MANIA
Dan Schaefer / Portland, OR
From the seed of Harry Glickman’s idea to start his own professional basketball team in Portland, through the years of struggle, improbable success, and fall from grace, this comprehensive history of the Portland Trailblazers examines the unique bond between a city and its only professional sports team. Featuring unprecedented access to management and players on and off the court, the story unfolds through interviews with Glickman, Stu Inman, Bill Schonely, Maurice Lucas, Paul Knauls, Clyde Drexler, Damon Stoudamire, Brandon Roy, longtime Blazer fans like Everclear’s Art Alexakis, and more. (125 mins.)
9 PM
FAST BREAK
Don Zavin / Portland, OR 1978
This singular time capsule of the 1977 NBA World Champion Trail Blazer season offers uncommonly intimate moments on and off the court. Produced with Mike McLeod, reflective conversations with Bill Walton and many of the other players of the era reveal the touching and surprising innocence of a time before the superstar era. (107 mins.) Film Courtesy of Oregon Historical Research Library, Film Archives, the Don Zavin Moving Image Collection.
BIOS
Dan Schaefer has contributed to film and television productions as a concept artist for more than 20 years. His list of projects varies from animation (Teen-Age Mutant Turtles television series), advertising campaigns (BMW, Adidas, Nike, Intel, HP, Clorox) and feature films (for NBC/Universal, MGM, Lions Gate, Paramount). He has worked as a pre-visualization artist with filmmakers Guillermo Arriga, Ellory Elkayem and Gus Van Sant. This is his first independent feature length documentary. He currently teaches at the Art Institute of Portland and is a long time fan of the Blazers.
Don Zavin (1932-1998) was a producer, director, writer, editor and production manager for television documentaries, educational and corporate productions and theatrical feature motion picture films for more than 30 years. A Portland native and a graduate of the University of Oregon, he worked both regionally for KATU-TV and OPB and with television stations across the country. A lifelong basketball fan, in 1977 he parlayed his expertise as a sports producer to tap into Portland's affinity for its up and coming NBA basketball team, the Portland Trailblazers. Assembling a crew of some of Portland's leading freelancers, he secured the permission of Harry Glickman's young club to follow the players and coaches for the entire season, both on the court and off The film and its hundreds of hours of outtakes are now housed in the Don Zavin Collection of the Oregon Historical Society Moving Image Archives. In addition to his filmmaking career, he also taught video production and editing at the Northwest Film Center for nearly twenty years.
All Screenings take place at the
Northwest Film Center
Whitsell Auditorium - Portland Art Museum - 1219 SW Park Ave.
Admission: $8 General, $7 Members, Students, Seniors
Festival Pass: $40
PRESENTS PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS FILM EVENT
November 11, 2008
The Northwest Film Center’s annual Northwest Film & Video Festival screens two films about the Portland Trail Blazers for a special sports film evening. The film program takes place on November 11 and includes Don Zavin’s film FAST BREAK (1978), which focuses on the Blazers during the 1977 NBA World Championship and the world premiere of MANIA (2008), directed by Dan Schaefer, which chronicles the history of the Trail Blazers through interviews with its owners, stars and fans. An audience Q&A with Dan Schaefer and special guests will take place between the films.
The Northwest Film Center’s annual Northwest Film & Video Festival is the region’s premiere showcase of new work by artists living in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia. Now in its 35th year, the Festival is the nation’s longest running regional film and video event and remains among the few that have a touring program that brings festival highlights to audiences all year long.
The Festival begins Friday, November 7 with a screening of Festival Shorts followed by the Opening Night party at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel. The Festival continues through Saturday, November 15 with a full schedule of screenings, workshops, discussions and social events celebrating the work filmmakers of the Northwest.
FILMS
6:30 PM
MANIA
Dan Schaefer / Portland, OR
From the seed of Harry Glickman’s idea to start his own professional basketball team in Portland, through the years of struggle, improbable success, and fall from grace, this comprehensive history of the Portland Trailblazers examines the unique bond between a city and its only professional sports team. Featuring unprecedented access to management and players on and off the court, the story unfolds through interviews with Glickman, Stu Inman, Bill Schonely, Maurice Lucas, Paul Knauls, Clyde Drexler, Damon Stoudamire, Brandon Roy, longtime Blazer fans like Everclear’s Art Alexakis, and more. (125 mins.)
9 PM
FAST BREAK
Don Zavin / Portland, OR 1978
This singular time capsule of the 1977 NBA World Champion Trail Blazer season offers uncommonly intimate moments on and off the court. Produced with Mike McLeod, reflective conversations with Bill Walton and many of the other players of the era reveal the touching and surprising innocence of a time before the superstar era. (107 mins.) Film Courtesy of Oregon Historical Research Library, Film Archives, the Don Zavin Moving Image Collection.
BIOS
Dan Schaefer has contributed to film and television productions as a concept artist for more than 20 years. His list of projects varies from animation (Teen-Age Mutant Turtles television series), advertising campaigns (BMW, Adidas, Nike, Intel, HP, Clorox) and feature films (for NBC/Universal, MGM, Lions Gate, Paramount). He has worked as a pre-visualization artist with filmmakers Guillermo Arriga, Ellory Elkayem and Gus Van Sant. This is his first independent feature length documentary. He currently teaches at the Art Institute of Portland and is a long time fan of the Blazers.
Don Zavin (1932-1998) was a producer, director, writer, editor and production manager for television documentaries, educational and corporate productions and theatrical feature motion picture films for more than 30 years. A Portland native and a graduate of the University of Oregon, he worked both regionally for KATU-TV and OPB and with television stations across the country. A lifelong basketball fan, in 1977 he parlayed his expertise as a sports producer to tap into Portland's affinity for its up and coming NBA basketball team, the Portland Trailblazers. Assembling a crew of some of Portland's leading freelancers, he secured the permission of Harry Glickman's young club to follow the players and coaches for the entire season, both on the court and off The film and its hundreds of hours of outtakes are now housed in the Don Zavin Collection of the Oregon Historical Society Moving Image Archives. In addition to his filmmaking career, he also taught video production and editing at the Northwest Film Center for nearly twenty years.
All Screenings take place at the
Northwest Film Center
Whitsell Auditorium - Portland Art Museum - 1219 SW Park Ave.
Admission: $8 General, $7 Members, Students, Seniors
Festival Pass: $40