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Reel Music Festival 2011

Reel Music Festival 2011: OMN presents ‘Portland Music Videos’ at Mississippi Studios on Sunday

Come to the OMN-curated night of Portland Music Videos at Mississippi Studios with two showings on Sunday, January 16 at 7 and 10pm. Directors and artists will present their films at the first screening.



Film: Phil Ochs: ‘There But For Fortune’ — Rise and fall of a political troubador – back at Northwest Film Center

Life and times and demise of an icon of the 1960′s, in a time when there were “Topical Singers.”


Reel Music Festival 2011: The Portland Music Videos from Mississippi Studios

Whether you missed our show tonight at Mississippi Studios or would you just like to watch the videos again, the complete show is available in the preferred format of those who still watch music videos: steaming online.


Reel Music Festival 2011: ‘Harmony: The Road to Carnegie Hall’ – Monday

How you get to Carnegie Hall, as the old saw goes, is “practice, practice practice”. However, nowadays you can apparently get there via the internet. “Harmony: The Road to Carnegie Hall” chronicles the way 90 musicians from all over the world got there to participate in the first YouTube Symphony.


Reel Music Festival 2011: ‘Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone’

Funk, Punk, Ska, Rock, Pop…you name it, they were it. Fascinating look behind the scenes of the band that refused to die.


Reel Music Festival 2011: ‘NY Export: Opus Jazz’

An unexpected film that bridges between Jazz and Modern Dance.


Reel Music Festival 2011: ‘Search and Destroy: Iggy Pop & The Stooges’ Raw Power’ and ‘Radical Act’

From The Stooges influential “Raw Power” to influential females in indie rock, catch both screenings on Thursday, January 13 at 7pm at the Mission Theater.


Reel Music Festival 2011: ‘The Anatomy of Vincce Guaraldi – Tuesday

The fate of Vince Guaraldi, cast to the winds back in 1962, was wafted around pretty good last year. This doc is part of it. Live Vince Gauraldi tribute band performs at the Mission Theater.


Reel Music Festival 2011: ‘The Turandot Project’ – The quest to perform it in the Forbidden City

In 1998, renowned orchestral conductor Zubin Mehta and Oscar-nominated director Zhang Yimou set out to produce an opera the Chinese government didn’t like, Puccini’s ‘Turandot,’ in one of the most imposing settings imaginable: Beijing’s Forbidden City. ‘The Turandot Project’ is the story of how they made it happen.


Reel Music Festival 2011: ‘The Secret to a Happy Ending: A Documentary About the Drive-by Truckers’ — Saturday

Through poverty, line-up changes, bust-ups, and thousands of shows, the Tuckers can’t seem to help but continue to hurl themselves forward with passion and guts and abandon.