“THE HURT LOCKER” at POW Fest SUMMER BENEFIT
The Portland Women’s Film Festival (a.k.a. POW Fest) is pleased to announce that acclaimed director, Kathryn Bigelow, one of Hollywood’s most innovative filmmakers — whose films include K-19 (2002) with Harrison Ford; The Weight of Water (2000) with Sean Penn; Strange Days (1995) with Ralph Fiennes; and Point Break (1991) with Keanu Reaves — will be in Portland to screen her latest film, The Hurt Locker, an action thriller, as part of a benefit for the Portland Women’s Film Festival, POW Fest, on Monday, July, 20th, 2009. The evening will kick-off at 6:00 p.m. with a pre-show reception and silent auction, followed by the screening at 7:30p.m. All events will take place at Portland’s historic Hollywood Theatre.
The Hurt Locker, winner of the ‚ÄúBest Film‚Äù Award at the Venice Film Festival has been called a ‚Äúnear perfect war film‚Äù by TIME Magazine. A riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military’s unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives doing one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. This fictional tale was inspired by real events chronicled by journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who was embedded with a special bomb squad unit in Iraq. In Iraq, it is soldier’s vernacular to speak of explosions as sending you to ‚Äúthe hurt locker.‚Äù
As part of the screening, Bigelow will be on-hand for an extensive discussion after the film.
The purpose of the evening is to raise funds for POW Fest’s third annual film festival scheduled for March 18 – 21, 2010. In addition to the film screening and one-on-one with Bigelow, benefit festivities will also include a wine & beer reception and special auction of one-of-a-kind experiences and merchandise. Tickets for the event are $20 (includes reception and auction) or $12 for the screening only and can be obtained at powfest.com as well as The Hollywood Theatre box office.
Please note, this is a 21 and older event.
July 10th, 2009
2:47 pm
I got here through the WW article, where I noticed the posting about provocateurs – especially interesting to me, as I have collaborated in a film about the Global War Of Terror – The Fall ’01 – http://www.TheFall01.info.
I’m tempted to attend, and ask her about her take on the Global War Of Terror, especially in light of the numerous accusations, not unlike that posted at WW, about it’s being a global psy-op, and about how she views her film in that context.