How You Like Your Coffee: PNW Visions
2019 |
1hr 31min
CAST: Various DIRECTOR: Various
CAST: Various DIRECTOR: Various
2019 Tacoma Film Festival Official Selection
Narrative, documentary, and fantasy short films by Pacific NW creators. Programmed by Katy Evans.
1. Your Career in Logging
US | 2018 | Pacific NW | 10 min | Samuel Orr
Originally shot on 16mm in 1998 and not edited until 2018, "Your Career in Logging" is a satirical homage to the educational films of the 1950s, featuring classic NW grunge style and spectacular old growth forests from Vancouver Island to the Redwoods. World Premiere. Filmmakers will be in attendance.
2. Seattle’s Bikini Baristas
US | 2019 | Pacific NW | 10 min | Benjamin Nolot
A documentary about the commodification of sexual harassment in the booming scantily clad barista coffee stand scene in Seattle. WA State Premiere
3. WELCOME, MARK
China | 2018 | Narrative | 25 min | Zach Weintraub
Jia Ning, a Beijing fashion photographer, agrees to help translate for Mark, an amateur British journalist coming to China for the first time. WA State Premiere. Filmmakers will be in attendance.
4. Beardbath
US | 2018 | Pacific NW | 7 min | Amy Hesketh
In an oddball take on the myth of Echo and Narcissus, an artist searches for her identity in a barbershop run by a macho beard guru. World Premiere. Filmmakers will be in attendance.
5. The Musicianer
US | 2018 | Pacific NW | 24 min | Beth Harrington
Yodelin’ Vern Lockhart is a hillbilly singer with a problem. On the verge of stardom in the late 1920s, he inadvertently has become immortal, a situation he only dimly glimpses. But when he encounters Jo Cullen, a present-day musicologist who’s expert on Vern’s past, he begins to grasp the deal with the devil he’s made. An Americana music series with a supernatural bent. Filmmaker will be in attendance.
6. I Know How You Like Your Coffee
US | 2018 | Pacific NW | 8 min | L. Fried, Yeni Sleidi
Break-up, tinder-rebound, relationship. Sound familiar? Same, but it’s different this time. Filmmaker will be in attendance.
7. 3 Minutes
US | 2019 | Pacific NW | 5 min | Christan Leonard
A teenager and her mother wait for the results of a pregnancy test.