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,...

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, P...

POW Fest opens with Coming Up Easy, local director Rebecca Rodriguez’s drama of a possibly deadly struggle between sisters. It continues with a dual screening of Irene Taylor Brodsky’s The Final Inch (see interview on page TK) and the film that beat it for the Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar, Smile Pinki. But the unsung gem of the festival is The Betrayal (Nerakhoon), another Oscar nominee that took longtime cinematographer Ellen Curras 23 years to make alongside co-director (and subjec...