Northwest Film Center

Established in 1971, the Northwest Film Center is a Portland, OR-based year-round organization and space where artists and audiences explore our region and the world through cinema and cinematic storytelling in all its forms.

Our mission is to expand the reach of cinema as an art form and challenge for whom, by whom and how stories can be told. 

Through our festivals, screenings, events, guest speaker programs, as well as adult and youth classes and workshops, audiences and artists form connections that bind our community and encourage a more vibrant, accessible, and diverse media-arts ecosystem.