FREE event thanks to our friends at Amazon MGM Studios. After the screening sells out, limited seating may be available at the door on a standby basis.
Doors at 6:30 p.m.; Film at 7:00 p.m. Q&A Directly following the film. 
This screening will have open captions.
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THE EXPERIENCE

Join us for the Portland exclusive theatrical premiere of Irene Taylor’s brilliant new film I Am: Céline Dion, which gives us a raw and honest behind-the-scenes look at the iconic superstar’s struggle with a life-altering illness. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director. The night before, director Irene Taylor will be honored as a 2024 PAM CUT Cinema Unbound Award Honoree. 

ON SCREEN: I Am: Céline Dion

2024. Directed by Irene Taylor. Runtime: 102 minutes. Rated PG.
Directed by Academy Award nominee Irene Taylor, I Am: Céline Dion gives us a raw and honest behind-the-scenes look at the iconic superstar’s struggle with a life-altering illness. Serving as a love letter to her fans, this inspirational documentary highlights the music that has guided her life while also showcasing the resilience of the human spirit.

ON STAGE: IRENE TAYLOR

Irene Taylor is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy, duPont and Peabody-winning filmmaker whose films explore a broad range of the human experience, including her own.

Her debut documentary, Hear and Now,  a film she shot, directed and edited about her deaf parents, won the Audience Award at Sundance 2007. Her upcoming Amazon MGM Studios documentary, I AM: Celine Dion, will premiere in June 2024.

Most recently, Irene turned her cameras on our obsession with the arboreal world and with each other in the HBO original documentary Trees, and Other Entanglements.   For her Oregon-based investigation into one of the most trusted institutions in America, Irene won a Columbia-DuPont Award for Leave No Trace: A Hidden History of The Boy Scouts (Hulu).

Premiering at Sundance 2019 and nominated for Special Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards, Irene’s Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements  told the story of her deaf son, her deaf father and Ludwig Van Beethoven, as he went deaf while composing his famous sonata.  Her other award-winning films include several HBO titles, including the Academy-Award nominated The Final Inch, Beware the Slenderman, Open Your Eyes and Saving Pelican 895.

Irene’s early career began in Kathmandu, Nepal, working as a Himalayan Mountain guide, photographer and filmmaker. She is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Television Academy, and is a graduate of New York University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.  She founded Vermilion Films in 2006 after moving to Portland and, in 2019, founded The Treehouse Project, a non-profit bringing independent cinema to deaf and blind audiences.

Irene Taylor makes her home in Portland, and her documentaries have been shown at the Museum and PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater throughout her career. Her upcoming Amazon MGM Studios documentary, I AM: Celine Dion, begins streaming globally on Prime Video on June 25.