Downwind and Dust Devil
Run Time: 150 min.
TICKETS $15
Doors 6:30 p.m.; Event 7 p.m.
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From Portland directors and producers Mark Shapiro and Douglas Brian Miller comes the award-winning feature documentary Downwind about the radioactive fall out from the 928 nuclear weapons tests in Nevada between 1951 to 1952 and the communities downwind that are lethally affected to this day. Prior to the film we will present Australian filmmaker Poppy Walker’s 2019 short film Dust Devil about a woman who created an opera house in the middle of Death Valley. A Q&A session with Mark and Douglas will follow the films.
ON SCREEN:
Downwind
2023. Directed by Mark Shapiro and Douglas Brian Miller. Runtime: 94 minutes.
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury. Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Matthew Modine narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States’ disregard for everyone living…downwind.
Dust Devil
2019. Directed by Poppy Walker. Runtime: 9 minutes.
In Death Valley’s ghost town, a dancer brings her gilded dream to life.
ON STAGE:
Prior to co-directing Downwind and The Invisible Enemy, Mark Shapiro headed Entertainment Brand Management for the animation studio LAIKA from 2007-2019. In addition to studio identity, he also handled marketing endeavors for LAIKA’s five Oscar-nominated features: Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Missing Link. Before LAIKA, he managed several categories for Nike USA Communications including Nike Community Affairs, Nike Basketball and Nike Tennis. He also served as a Mentor in Publicity and Marketing for SxSW Film. Mark sits on the Klamath Film Board of Directors (Oregon) and curates film programming at festivals around the world. A native of Seattle, Mark attended Emerson College in Boston and received his BA (English) from Colorado College. He completed post-graduate education studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland.
Douglas Brian Miller’s Director of Photography credits include: Why Did You Kill Me? (A Netflix True Crime Documentary), The Greed of Men, Comix, Beyond the Comic Book Pages, and Downwind. In the television market, Miller has served as Camera Operator for BET/Centric’s Being, NBC’s The Wendy Williams Show, and The Montel Williams Show. In the growing world of new media, in partnership with various agencies such as J. Walter Thompson, TMP Worldwide, Group M and BP Studios, Miller has served as Director of Photography and Camera Operator for top brands including Apple, Boeing, Charles Schwab, Experian, E-Z UP Shelters, NXP, Sprint and Starbucks. Winner of fourteen Telly Awards, he also captured the 2022 Webby Award (People’s Voice Winner, Best Series) for Between The Pages with Alane Adams.
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