So cool! Luchadora was screened at the Canadian Sport Film Festival’s satellite festival in Winnipeg. One of the highlights of the event is an outdoor screening hosted by at a prominent downtown historical site and recreational destination called The Forks. Every year, the staff at The Forks build a screen made out of snow and…
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I’m so excited to be curating and presenting Cinememe with collaborator Edward Wolcher! The event takes place every 2nd Thursday of the month, as part of Capitol Hill Art Walk, from 5-8pm or later at at Northwest Film Forum. About Cinememe: YouTube lolcats meet high art films in a durational, live video mashup of the…
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The Luchadoras are coming to Hotlanta! Funny story: a few months ago I got an email from filmmaker and fellow Hampshire College alum River Finlay. She wanted to let me know that she also had a short doc called Luchadora too, and it was currently touring festivals. ‘Well…we’d better be careful,’ I thought, because what…
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I’m excited to announce that my short doc Luchadora will screen at Local Sightings Film Festival here in Seattle! Here’s more about the festival: Local Sightings is a showcase of new films from the Northwest that puts homegrown talent in front of Seattle audiences and connects artists from Alaska to Oregon in a celebration of…
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Best of the Northwest 2, where my short doc Luchadora screened with other local shorts, was a full house: in fact, I was a few minutes early and still almost ended up not getting a seat! Luckily I was able to grab a seat in the very back, next to a guy with a computer.…
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Hey, neat! Luchadora got a review (preview?) in the Seattle Weekly yesterday! The review definitely got the spirit of the film and it’s colorful language made me laugh: For those now also thoroughly bored with the roller derby and burlesque revivals, Amber Cortes’ doc Luchadora (Sun.) offers a refreshing alternative. Her subject is a circus-college-trained…
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Cool! Luchadora will be screening at Bumbershoot’s 1 Reel Film Festival on September 6! I’m super-duper excited to be screening with some other shorts for their “Best of the Northwest” series. Check out the full lineup of 1 Reel’s films here. Luchadora even made the highlights in the Seattle Times! So, get your tickets – because…
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Manifesto returns! i’m super psyched to be reuniting with my fellow cukes and once again performing for ilvs straus’ dance narrative tale of awesomeness that explores the habits of sea cucumbers, gender, making art, and choosing to not to have kids. read a rad review of the premiere in May here (there is a pic…
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On June 21 I’ll be performing at Tukwila Revealed: “an epic exploratory walk along the southern reaches of the Duwamish, interspersed with performance, storytelling and art-making.” It’s kind of a lit/art/music crawl/walk/tour around an amazing part of the Duwamish River in Tukwila: a place where the river actually makes a 90 degree angle! Tukwila Revelaed…
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So cool! SIFF is partnering with Starbucks to present seven short films in Starbucks Coffeehouses across the United States during the Seattle International Film Festival and Luchadora has been selected as one of them! Each selected short film will stream for 3-4 days on the Starbucks Digital Network, which is only accessible when you are on the wi-fi at any Starbucks location across…
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On June 6 I’ll be performing a multimedia piece with my co-conspirator Edward Wolcher at Ogopogo at the Pocket Theater. Ogopogo is kind of a mixed genre mash-up of poetry/prose/mixed media/theater put together by the good folks over at Babel Salvage. I’ll be projecting my film from my interactive website Fallout, the story of two…
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Luchadora got a fun write up for COMMunity Beat, the University of Washington’s Department of Communication’s blog! It was great to get a chance to talk about the film, the amazing sport of Lucha Libre, and how the Communication Leadership program at UW helped me make my first short doc!
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I’m beyond thrilled to be part of Manifesto, a Dance Narrative performance by ilvs straus. Why? Because I’m going to be working with and learning from one of my Seattle art heroes: someone who I consider a truly original and visionary artist/performer and whose work I’ve been following for quite some time. Because I will…
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How exciting! My short doc Luchadora will have it’s WORLD PREMIERE at the 2015 Seattle International Film Festival. I am beyond excited! Luchadora will screen with other local shorts at the ‘Northern Exposure’ block on Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. Don’t miss it! We’ll all be there (some with masks on 😉 This…
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