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ALBINA WAS ONCE HOME FOR BLACK PORTLAND
The Albina neighborhood was the
center of Black life in Portland, Oregon. In the 1950s and 1960s
urban renewal that was rooted in racist policies destroyed houses,
churches, and schools in favor of freeways and sports venues.
Thousands of residents were displaced and never returned to live in
their community. The painful displacement tore apart their cultural
home, squashed their sense of place and connection, and Black
families were prevented from building generational wealth. The
impact of those actions is felt today, and the hurt is deep.
Understanding the past and finding healing is the only way forward.
A documentary film series will put the past in context and
illustrate the importance of envisioning an intentionally remarkable
Albina in the future.
ALBINA VISION FILM SERIES
Albina Vision Trust is a nonprofit organization committed to reimagining Albina into an inclusive, accessible, and remarkable cultural home for Black Portlanders and the rest of the City. Local Black filmmaker Dru Holley of Black Bald Films is producing three short documentary films to create a bridge from the pain of Albina's past toward a bright future where racial equity and commonwealth work together to celebrate joy and find restorative justice.
The Albina Vision film series aims to educate the broader community and create opportunities for community engagement. The series will feature informative content for a general audience, formatted as 5-8 minute episodes that can stand alone as digital content and be curated for short or longer programming. Each episode features a different director, aiming to showcase different perspectives and talents in Portland’s Black filmmakers. Created with a unique visual style and storytelling approach, each episode will reflect the collaboration between the producer and the director and juxtapose a past issue or theme with the cultural environment we are experiencing now. |
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EPISODE 1: Where Should We Go?
| The first episode asks where we (the Black community) can go that is safe from racism and police brutality. Where can we live without eventually getting pushed out of our neighborhoods? Conversations with legendary Black Portland leaders, residents, and academics inform the story and establish an important contextual background in how racist policies led to gentrification and displacement of Albina’s historic residents. It will validate the need for change and justice and establish why and how Albina Vision Trust is using an understanding of the past to create the path forward. | EPISODE 2: Black Wealth
| Redlining is a term we hear often, but what specifically does it mean when we talk about Albina? The second episode presents an animated history of restricted access to credit, predatory lending, redlining, and housing discrimination in the past and how it relates to the current and future issues of wealth building, housing, and businesses in the neighborhood. The animation aims to be approachable and expand the viewer's knowledge about housing segregation and offer personalized experiences without being academic in tone. | EPISODE 3: Working Families
| The third episode follows contemporary families that live and work in different parts of the city and travel great distances to Albina for the community. After years of displacement, a scattered community is all over the Portland area. The place that brings the community together is still Albina. The episode could focus on a single mother juggling work and family, the importance and need for childcare, and the power of community and faith organizations that connect. Despite many families moving out to "The Numbers", Albina remains a hub that brings people together. Legacy groups, churches, fraternal and sorority organizations and the people connected to them are part of the story. |
Once the series is complete, Albina Vision Trust will host screenings and share and distribute the films through social media platforms, community outreach, website links, and other creative ways to connect to the community. As the films reach the audience, Albina Vision Trust and Black Bald Films will have a front-row seat to hear the reaction, promote dialogue and engage support for the visioning work and future of Albina.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER
As a Black filmmaker with an eye for social change and justice, Dru Holley from Black Bald Films tells the stories of people who have been ignored or overlooked and whose experiences in urgent social problems can shape the future's conversations. Holley graduated from the Art Institute of Colorado, specializing in video broadcasting. His experience includes more than 200 productions, including directing and producing commercials, music videos, promo videos for Global Dance Festival, industrials, and social media content. Iconic Black filmmaker Stanley Nelson selected Holley for the 2020 Firelight Documentary Lab Fellowship. His feature directorial debut is Buffalo Soldiers of the Pacific Northwest which recounts the glorious but complicated history of the Buffalo Soldiers, African American men seeking a better life who volunteered for the United States Army after the end of the Civil War, whose military service created a simultaneously laudatory and complex legacy. |
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FILM SERIES SPONSOR
NASTY WOMAN WINES is an unapologetically feminist wine company that believes wine tastes better with a mission. They are committed to donating 20% of their net profits to organizations that help advance and empower equality and representation for all. Learn more about their tasty wines at www.nastywomanwines.com or on social media @nastywomanwines. |
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Notes from the artist, Lyndon Barrois, Jr: The image is dominated by an enlarged detail of a young woman sitting in Unthank Park (perhaps circa 1971). Her ambiguous and distant gaze stood out to me, which somewhat reflects the state of the neighborhood (or my understanding of it). The branding symbols included are of the Albina Neighborhood Improvement Committee (ANIC) and the Portland Development Commission, pulled from the 1969 invitation card of the Unthank Park dedication (Sunday, May 25, 1969). The last element is an excerpt from a lease with the city ordinance. I isolated the Indemnification section, in which I have crossed out 'Tenant' and 'Landlord' whenever they appear, to complicate the relationship between land and inhabitant, and the raise questions around ownership and belonging. The combination of institution, individual, and the language that determines the authority of each are all present here.
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Donate $50 to the Albina Vision Documentary Film Series and receive a code to redeem $50 of products at Nasty Woman Wines (www.nastywomanwines.com), excluding shipping. Choose from many empowering selections, including Rise Up Riesling, featuring Albina Vision Trust Board Chair Rukaiyah Adams. Contact judy@albinavision.org to receive your personal discount code. Limited to the first 24 donations at this level.
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Notes from the artist, Lyndon Barrois, Jr: The image is dominated by an enlarged detail of a young woman sitting in Unthank Park (perhaps circa 1971). Her ambiguous and distant gaze stood out to me, which somewhat reflects the state of the neighborhood (or my understanding of it). The branding symbols included are of the Albina Neighborhood Improvement Committee (ANIC) and the Portland Development Commission, pulled from the 1969 invitation card of the Unthank Park dedication (Sunday, May 25, 1969). The last element is an excerpt from a lease with the city ordinance. I isolated the Indemnification section, in which I have crossed out 'Tenant' and 'Landlord' whenever they appear, to complicate the relationship between land and inhabitant, and the raise questions around ownership and belonging. The combination of institution, individual, and the language that determines the authority of each are all present here.
- 15 ordered
- 9 remaining
Donate $50 to the Albina Vision Documentary Film Series and receive a code to redeem $50 of products at Nasty Woman Wines (www.nastywomanwines.com), excluding shipping. Choose from many empowering selections, including Rise Up Riesling, featuring Albina Vision Trust Board Chair Rukaiyah Adams. Contact judy@albinavision.org to receive your personal discount code. Limited to the first 24 donations at this level.
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