NORTHWEST DOCUMENTARY ARTS & MEDIA
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Mission Statement
Mission: NW Documentary practices, teaches, and shares the art of non-fiction storytelling. We illuminate important stories that would otherwise be lost or overlooked, provide experiential learning opportunities, and generatunderstanding, appreciation, and dialog within our community.
About This Cause
Philosophy: We believe real stories matter. They not only entertain, but they can enlighten. They can move us deeply, and change the world as we see it forever. In the process of gathering stories, meeting new people, and learning of their experiences, we break down invisible barriers of age, gender, class, and ethnicity. Documentary stories bring us together, to question, and to celebrate. With this value and this passion, we create original works of documentary art, teach others to tell their own stories, and gather community together in the sharing of significant stories of our diverse, yet shared, experiences. To this end we employ the following programs, events and workshops: A full roster of workshops and classes year round that cover all aspects of documentary making, including editing, legal issues and promotion. DIY Documentary is our most popular. Youth Camps and Workshops which include our Recording Resilience workshop that takes a small group of teens from the Dougy Center through the process of making a memorial documentary. This workshop is offered free to the students and costs are covered by NW Documentary. Our other youth workshop is the Documentary Explorers Camp, a camp partnership with OMSI that takes students out of their element to learn documentary making at Camp Hancock and Camp Redwoods. In 2013 NW Documentary hosted a 3-day documentary summit in partnership with Women in Film. Many of our students have garnered awards for their work, started their own successful film non-profits or established a successful film and production company of their own. Events help celebrate and create community here. We have the Homegrown Docfest three times a year, held at a local independent theater, which premiers the completed works from the DIY Documentary classes and our DocTalks, a free lecture event which promotes shared knowledge in documentary making and networking among both professional and emerging producers and filmmakers. We also produce videos and movies. We have produced compelling mission centered videos for local non-profits such as Lion's Eye Bank, a heritage video for the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center and feature length films, premiered in Portland. Artistic Director Ian McCluskey has won Official Selection awards in numerous film festivals, including Tribeca, Aspen an BFI London and is an Emmy award winning director and producer. We celebrate and highlight the local culture that makes Portland unique as well as those stories which capture universal messages. In 2013, we completed a short on Portland's annual Naked Bike Ride, which is the largest in the world. The short was selected for Oregon Lens on OPB, and screened publicly in Oregon at the Filmed By Bike Festival and BendFilm festival. We are currently working in the final stages of Les Voyageurs Sans Trace, a film about 3 young people who kayaked the entire Green and Colorado Rivers in the late 1930's. Summer Snapshot, Eloquent Nude, Sun Ju Ga are some of our other original productions. Samples of some of our work and student work can be seen on Vimeo under NW Documentary, Recording Resilience or Homegrown DocFests.