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Neighborhood Nonprofit Spotlight: The Portland Film Festival
Josh from The Portland Film Festival shares his story with Patch.
Patch: Tell Patch a little about your organization!
The Portland Film Festival: Portland Film Festival is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing filmmakers and audiences, and to celebrating the power of a good story. The festival focuses on the people, ideas, technology, skills, and artistry behind film making and provides both entertaining
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Patch: How does your organization help to strengthen the local community?
The Portland Film Festival: Provides educational programming to the public.
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The Portland Film Festival: We are growing every year, and becoming more and more nationally known destination festival for filmmakers to attend, both locally and from around the country - which we love so much, but organizing and running the festival and taking care of our filmmakers is challenging. But we have a great team of volunteers, who really knock it out of the park. It's an honor to be involved.
Patch: What do you hope for the future of your nonprofit?
The Portland Film Festival: We hope the Portland Film Festival continues to grow and become a national platform for independent filmmakers—it will be a great way to showcase Portland film on a national level.
Photo By: Matt Johnstone, Portland Film Festival
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