Reel Music Festival 28 | NW Film Center

What you need to know

28th Annual Reel Festival

The 28th annual Reel Music Festival celebrates the unexpected stories behind some of the world’s greatest music, with films spotlighting the incongruous, transformative, and sometimes bizarre origins of songs we sing every day. The NW Film Center has kept their eyes and ears peeled over the last year for new film works for their annual celebration of sound and image, music and culture. Whatever your musical tastes, there’s something in this year’s eclectic lineup will perk your curiosity and warm your soul.

Reel Music Festival (click for full line up). Festival runs January 7-18th.

VENUES AND TICKETS
Whitsell Auditorium
1219 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205

ADMISSION PRICES
$9 General
$8 PAM Members, Students, Seniors
$6 Friends of the Film Center
Double features are an additional $3 per ticket.

Here’s a preview of one show I won’t miss.

In 1958, Jerome Robbins’ “ballet in sneakers,” NY Export: Opus Jazz, became a smash hit when it was broadcast on The Ed Sullivan Show and toured around the world. Set to an evocative jazz score by Robert Prince and abstract urban backdrops by Ben Shahn, the dance told the story of disaffected urban youth through movement that blended ballet, jazz and ballroom dancing with Latin, African and American rhythms to create a powerfully expressive, sexy and contemporary style. Now, the work comes full circle in a vibrant new scripted film adaptation, conceived by New York City Ballet soloists Ellen Bar and Sean Suozzi, and shot on location around New York City. This feature length film premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival, where it won the Emerging Visions Audience Award.
Learn More about Opus Jazz.