Portland Women's Film Festival 2008

Teenage love songs aren’t supposed to include the sound of babies crying!

A young girl reveals details of her ever-present struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Narrated by Academy Award-winner Linda Hunt, this magical fable follows the journey of a little girl who tries to break a spell that has caused everybody on Earth to forget about the ocean.

A short film about young people incarcerated at Multnomah County’s juvenile detention center.

When a book falls from the sky, striking a young hipster in the head, the fashionable extinctions of oysters and hipsters become inexplicably intertwined.

Alexis is a drifter who finds comfort in her invisibility living on the streets; but when the routine of her solitary life is interrupted by an unforeseen encounter, she must choose between preserving her anonymity or reconnecting with the world around her.

An intimate portrait of the impact U.S. mandatory sentencing laws for conspiracy-related drug crimes have on a young mother of three who received two life sentences for her first drug offense.

When a little, old lady gets mugged by a man on a bicycle and she realizes that there is no one around to help her, she decides to take matters into her own hands – it’s a good thing Granny knows Parkour!

Rachel, a single mother and very resilient young woman who has faced many problems, now wants brain surgery to rid her of the epilepsy that is ruling her life.