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Celebrating Our Differences Together
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1Be the first to screen carefully curated new films and experience powerful play readings. Join in this unique multi cultural forum.
3Javon Johnson, Bobby Yan...meet and mix with celebrities, experts, fellow artists, and aficionados. Make connections and save contacts.
2Learn more on your craft from nationwide experts. Classes are presented in small groups.
4PNMC Festival Co-Chair. Playwright, director, producer, actor The Oval, Daddy's Little Girls, Boo! A Medea Halloween
Javon Johnson's career as a writer, actor, director, and producer spans the screen, stage and writers' room. He is perhaps best well known for his work with Tyler Perry - particularly The Oval, where he played Richard Hallsen. Javon is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Actors Equity Association, and the Dramatists Guild.
He is a founding member and resident playwright of Congo Square Theatre Company in Chicago. He received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He regularly conducts artist development workshops and actors' bootcamps and intensives.
PNMC Festival Co-Chair. Playwright, six-time Emmy Award winning director, Stalker, K-Love.
Bobby is a second-generation Chinese American director and writer from New York City. He graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans and holds a Masters degree from NYU in Visual Effects. Starting his career with music videos, he has directed and edited over one hundred music videos and commercials and won seven Emmy Awards for editing and producing in sports television.
Born and raised in New York City as a child of immigrants, Bobby's early life was surrounded by the diverse cultures and melting pot of NYC, which displays heavily in his work today. An avid video gamer and lover of comic book culture, Bobby fuses pop culture influences with visual elements of hip hop culture.
With a focus on telling diverse stories that bridge communities, Bobby's work often explores topics and stories from a marginalized community perspective, exploring common bonds of ethnic/cultural heritage, gender, sexual orientation, and political identification. His work explores themes and genres of racial identity, LGBTQ, gender, and anti-Asian violence.
Bobby's first film, a proof-of-concept, award-winning narrative short titled Marz premiered at Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco and has been screened at more than 50 festivals worldwide.
Bobby is a participant in the ABC Disney Directing Program and Ryan Murphy's HALF Initiative Mentorship program. Bobby's directing credits include Stalker, which aired on TV One and Lifetime Network; movies for BET Network; and, nine episodes of K-Love a TV series from the Philippines streaming on VIU.
Bobby is currently in development for several film and TV projects including a feature film inspired by his own life story, an Asian American coming of age comedy-drama at the intersection of music and culture.
PNMC Festival Executive Producer
Jerry Foster is an actor and director actively involved in the arts within the Portland Metropolitan area for 30 years. Jerry co-founded the Inner City Youth program in 1992. In 1995, he became PassinArt: A Theatre Company’s Artistic Director and currently serves as Board President.
His stage credits and performances include Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, A Soldiers’ Play, Deceptive Love, The Pews, Pill Hill, A Sunbeam, Ragtime, A Raisin in the Sun, Driving Miss Daisy, Big River, and Two Trains Running.
Directing credits include Black Nativity, Juneteenth & Kwanza Celebration for the North Portland library, and the Peace Festival for Black Women for Peace.
Jerry has worked in news media for over 28 years. In 2019, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Zeta Sigma Omega Chapter presented Jerry with the prestigious Emerald Award for the Arts honoring African American Men for community contributions and leadership.
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The PNMC Festival is presented by PassinArt: A Theatre Company, Oregon’s longest producing Black theater company.
The PNMC Festival is celebrating its second year with an in-person festival in the City of Roses, Portland, Oregon. Click on the circle of the day you'd like to view.
Pickup passes purchased online or purchase passes in the Fest Office.
Opening remarks/press conference in the Roosevelt Room.
Javon Johnson
Jerry Foster
Leasharn M Hopkins
(40 min.; Mini-Doc)
Washington
Filmmakers: Shannon Nash, Merline Saintil & Deborah Riley Draper
OnBoard follows the evolution of board diversity from Patricia Roberts Harris in 1971 to the present day, as seen through the eyes of Black women who are making a positive difference in global corporate spaces.
Film Short: FANNIE (10 min.; Drama)
Hamilton
Filmmaker: Abeni Bloodworth
Sharecropper turned social justice advocate, Fannie Lou Hamer publicly highlights the scare tactics used in Mississippi to prevent Black residents from voting. Hammer forces this country to examine itself with one question, “Is this America?
Film Short: Q.U.E.E.N. (13 min.; Drama)
Hamilton
Filmmaker: Brittany "B.Monét"
Q.U.E.E.N. tells the story of a teenage girl who uses Rap and Hip Hop to give voice to all the things she's afraid to speak. Through self-discovery and a little bit of courage, Imani faces her biggest fear at a Rap Battle.
Roosevelt
The festival is presenting a special session, Conversation with Stage, Film, and Television Actor Javon Johnson. This conversation will focus on the 2023 PNMC Festival Co-Chair Javon’s career and lived experience in the industry and ways artists of color can thrive in theatre and film. Javon currently co-stars in the television series Tyler Perry’s The Oval. The award-winning artist is also a writer, producer, and acting coach.
Moderator: Ken Boddie, Morning Anchor/Reporter KOIN TV
Javon Johnson
Ken Boddie
Film Short: The Leijend (25 min.; Sci-Fi)
Washington
Filmmaker: Javon Johnson
A psychological thriller that pits a man against his greatest fear, himself. Who will win this life and death battle.
Film Short: Contact Man (6 min.; Sci-Fi)
Washington
Filmmaker: Christina Bachelor
After the murder of his sister, a super human in hiding seeks to avenge her death. Through the use of his detective skills and teleportation powers, he searches for his purpose and revenge.
(Writer: Raul Garza)
Jackson
When a long-forgotten Vietnamese soldier appears unexpectedly in 2018, he shakes the comfortable lives of Vietnam War veteran Pablo and his wife, Adriana.
Raul Garza
(37 min.; Mini-doc)
Filmmaker: Tom Lassiter
Hamilton
In the Jim Crow era, Black and White South Carolinians built nearly 500 Rosenwald Schools for African American students. Today, only a small percentage survive. They are witnesses to an important time, regardless of race. And why so many Rosenwald Schools have disappeared in the Palmetto State is a uniquely South Carolina story.
Film Short: Birthday Cake (11 min.; Drama)
Washington
Filmmaker: Thomas Bauer
It's Donnie's Birthday. A good reason for his wife to bake his favorite chocolate cake and reflect on the time spent with a loved one.
Film Short: I Play Loser (15 min.; Drama)
Washington
Filmmaker: Jezer Serafica
Boog is a talented, fierce competitor in the Fighting Game community. Having never achieved 1st place, the young man becomes obsessed with knocking down his friends after struggling with a new video challenge.
Grant
Writer: Lisa Collins
A Black woman educator struggles with the depth of white supremacy as it shows itself in Oregon school systems. Based on the research of a Black woman educator, I Have to Pray demonstrates the complexity of race, gender, class, and power and the need for healing and survival in educational systems for Black educators.
Film Short: Toni. Mamie. Connie. (5 min.; Historical, Drama)
Hamilton
Filmmaker: Ashleigh Curry
Set in the 1950's, it centers around three African American women playing their last game with an African American men's baseball team. Witness some of the hurdles they overcome to become front runners in a game that has no place for them.
Film Short: The Dragonfly Tale (30 min.; Drama)
Hamilton
Filmmaker: Lorey Hayes
A story about faith and trust in God to heal lives. Laced with laughter and light-hearted moments, join a Black family navigating racial and economic hurdles in 1964 Texas. Together they journey through victimization, public scrutiny and personal accountability.
Pick up passes purchased online or purchase passes in the Fest Office.
Madison
Instructor: Jeanette Hill; 90 minutes
The suspension of disbelief. You’re familiar with the term. Just so you know, if your audience can’t connect with your characters, they won’t connect with your story. Through exercises and activities, learn how to develop three-dimensional characters-their appearances, traits, and voices unique to each one. Create characters your audience will want to know.
Jeanette Hill
Jackson
Instructor: Bobby Yan, PNMC Celebrity Co-Chair
An advanced primer on the craft of directing from script to screen.
Bobby Yan
Roosevelt
Instructor: Rhavynn Drummer
Students will receive the opportunity to get in-depth information about auditioning characters for television and film projects. Not only will this information delve into techniques and common mistakes in an audition room, but actors will get the chance to perform a mock audition AND receive feedback on their performance.
Rhavynn Drummer
(40 min.; Mini-Doc)
Washington
Filmmakers: Shannon Nash, Merline Saintil & Deborah Riley Draper
OnBoard follows the evolution of board diversity from Patricia Roberts Harris in 1971 to the present day, as seen through the eyes of Black women who are making a positive difference in global corporate spaces.
Film Short: FANNIE (10 min.; Drama)
Hamilton
Filmmaker: Abeni Bloodworth
Sharecropper turned social justice advocate, Fannie Lou Hamer publicly highlights the scare tactics used in Mississippi to prevent Black Americans from voting. Hammer forces this country to examine itself with one question, “Is this America?
Film Short: Q.U.E.E.N. (13 min.; Drama)
Hamilton
Filmmaker: Brittany "B.Monét"
Q.U.E.E.N. tells the story of a teenage girl with a troubled past who uses writing as her muse to say all the things she is too afraid to say. Through self-discovery and a little bit of courage, Imani faces her biggest fear at a rap battle.
Reading: On the Train
Grant
Writer: Lisa Price
Shortly after the overturning of Roe, political correspondent Nia Anderson, has a brief confrontation with Senator Chad Fox the ‘face of morality’. When she confronts him about the pending increase in African-American maternity and infant mortality and mortality rate, his insult leads to the damaging of her career.
Lisa Price
Film Short: The Leijend (25 min.; Sci-Fi)
Washington
Filmmaker: Javon Johnson
A psychological thriller that pits a man against his greatest fear, himself. Who will win this life and death battle.
Film Short: Contact Man (6 min.; Sci-Fi)
Washington
Filmmaker: Christina Bachelor
After the murder of his sister, a super human in hiding seeks to avenge her death. Through the use of his detective skills and teleportation powers, he searches for his purpose and revenge.
Instructor: Javon Johnson
Roosevelt
In this Master Class Javon Johnson will instruct on the following: Writing from an organic space; Writing for stage versus television/film; Seeking agent representation; Learning how to get from the page to production; Learning the development process (ie. drafting, revising, and editing); and the proper format and structure.
Javon Johnson
(37 min.; Mini-doc)
Filmmaker: Tom Lassiter
Hamilton
South Carolinians built nearly 500 Rosenwald Schools for African American students in the Jim Crow era. But just a small percentage survive today. They are witnesses to an era important to all South Carolinians, regardless of race. And why so many Rosenwald Schools have disappeared in the Palmetto State is a uniquely South Carolina story.
Pick up passes purchases online or purchase passes in the Fest office.
Madison
Instructor: Don Wilson Glenn; 45 minutes
Starting with creation, the process of pen to paper, discussing the standard industry formatting; copyright and ownership; submission, commission and soliciting; and finally the playwright’s expectation from workshop to full production.
Don Wilson Glenn
Grant
Instructor: Kaypri
Checklist on how to know if your script is ready for production including the essential workshop process. Additional information on the following:
Kaypri
Roosevelt
Instructor: Professor Vera J. Katz
Attendee should bring a prepared monologue with a copy for instructor. If necessary, the instructor will provide a monologue for you.
Vera J Katz
Film screenings in the Washington room.
Film Short: Indigenous Resistance: Now and Then (15 min.; Mini-Doc)
Filmmaker: ‘Wáats’asdíyei Joe Yates
Washington
Witness how Indigenous people endure psychological, emotional and economic trauma at the hands of their Caucasian conquers. Statehood, blood quantum, ANCSA, boarding schools, denied the freedom to speak their language and perform their cultural dances. Yet through it all—their ancestral traditions bind them—making them resilient and fueling them with hope.
Film Short: I Play Loser (15 min.; Drama)
Washington
Filmmaker: Jezer Serafica
Boog is a talented, fierce competitor in the Fighting Game community. Having never achieved 1st place, the young man becomes obsessed with knocking down his friends after struggling with a new video challenge.
Film Short: 3 Phases of Isa (17 min.; Drama)
Hamilton
Filmmaker: Mildred Langford
In a marriage riddled with domestic violence, a woman confronts the younger versions of herself attempting to gain the freedom she desperately seeks.
Film Short: XXVisible (12 min.; Drama)
Hamilton
Filmmaker: Bobby Yan
It's 2020, COVID-19 has shut down the entire world. In the midst, a successful, young Asian American struggles to navigate life during the lock down. A series of events forces the man to confront issues of self-identity and racial politics, culminating into an aggressive Anti-Asian attack against his family.
Bobby Yan
Lincoln
Instructor: William Andre Buchanan
Angel investor and Film Financier William Andre Buchanan will host a workshop on how to get your projects funded by sharing several techniques to secure funding for your projects.
William Andre Buchanan
Grant
Writer: Valerie Peterson
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL is a story that takes a look into the lives of two African American brothers, as they are faced with difficult decisions that will challenge their shared upbringing, spirituality, and moral compass.
Valerie Yvette Peterson
Film Short: The Dragonfly Tale (30 min.; Drama)
Washington
Filmmaker: Lorey Hayes
A story about faith and trust in God to heal lives. Laced with laughter and light-hearted moments, join a Black family navigating racial and economic hurdles in 1964 Texas. Together they journey through victimization, public scrutiny and personal accountability.
Film Short: Birthday Cake (11 min.; Drama)
Washington
Filmmaker: Thomas Bauer
It's Donnie's Birthday. A good reason for his wife to bake his favorite chocolate cake and reflect on the time spent with a loved one.
Madison
Writer: Gregory Stallworth
A Black Father’s Plea is a stage performance of two acts that addresses the perils of a black father who is absent in his son’s life. During this absence, the son seeking male mentoring goes to the streets to seek encouragement and advisement only to be steered to a life on the streets that includes crime, drugs and gun violence.
Greg Stallworth
Description: Artists of Color (AOC) have dealt with racism, colorism, whitewashing, and stereotypes throughout vaudeville, theatre, film, and television. However, they have always found a way to publicly tell and celebrate their culture and differences.
This panel will discuss what was, what is, and what is to come for AOC in the entertainment industry.
In the Roosevelt room.
Panelists:
Rose Bianco, actress, theatre, television, and film
Alicia Payne, Canadian multi-disciplinary storyteller (stage, film, television, and radio)
Jeannette Hill, award-winning playwright and creative activist, founder of JWHill Productions LLC and Sight Ain’t Seeing Theatre Company.
Glenn Alan, award-winning playwright, director, stage producer, executive producer of DC Black Theatre Festival
Lorey Hayes, Multi-award winning writer, director, Stage, Film, Television
Moderator: Jeannine Foster-McKelvia, playwright, director, and adjunct assisstant professor of theatre at the CUNY College of Technology and at Marymount Manhattan College
Rose Bianco
Alicia Payne
Jeanette Hill
Glenn Alan
Jeannine Foster-McKelvia
Lorey Hayes
Enjoy a delicious brunch in the Ballroom with fellow guests and special guests. Included with purchase of festival pass.
Willamette Falls Buffet includes:
Closing remarks presented after brunch in the Ballroom.
1000 NE Multnomah St., Portland, OR 97232
August 17-20, 2023
DoubleTree by Hilton is in Portland’s Lloyd District, within a half-mile of the Oregon Convention Center and the Moda Center. We’re one block from Lloyd Center shopping, and the local MAX Light Rail station is next door, linking to downtown Portland and the airport. Enjoy our 24-hour fitness center, outdoor pool, and a warm welcome cookie on arrival.
