Reel Music Festival

October 3, 2012, 8:51 am

Reel Music is the Film Center’s annual showcase exploring the lively interplay between sound and image, music and culture. Featuring everything from collections of vintage performance clips to new documentary and dramatic films, to cutting-edge music videos and animation, Reel Music embraces films exploring a variety of musical genres—jazz, blues, rock, classical, opera, and avant-garde—and fuses them into a unique cinematic celebration.

2012 Dates: Reel Music 30 - October 12-27, 2012

Location: Northwest Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium (1219 SW Park Ave.) and McMenamins Mission Theatre (1624 NW Glisan St.)

Northwest Film Center's 30th annual Reel Music Film Festival begins with two Portland premieres including A.K.A Doc Pomus about an unknown rock and roll songwriter who wrote among other songs This Magic Moment from The Drifters, and dozens of other hits for everyone from Ray Charles, Elvis, and Marianne Faithfull and Building Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap, directed by Ice T. and Andy Baybutt, featuring interviews with Afrika Bambaataa, Mos Def, Chuck D, Run-DMC, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Snoop Dogg.

Other artists featured include Amy Winehouse, Steve Martin, Paul Simon, Woody Guthrie, and more!

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