Local event:

Pig Roast & Tank of Fish
The first-ever documentary about Portland’s Chinatown.
Its legacy as the urban core where city of Portland started and the challenges as the community plans for its revitalization.

Upcoming “Pig Roast & Tank of Fish” screenings-

January 21st, Wednesday, 5:30pm
University of Oregon, The White Stag Building
70 NW Couch St., Portland, OR
Free admission
Discussion panel and reception after the screening
**discussion panel members include Ivy Lin, Suenn Ho, Peter Englander, Dr.Jeff Barlow (a history professor at Pacific University)
and more.

“Pig Roast & Tank of Fish” premiered on 9/28/08 at Someday Lounge.
It was chosen to be screened at the 35th NW Film Festiva at the Whitsell Auditoriuml on 11/15/08.
Watch Pig Roast trailer here-
http://www.vimeo.com/1676699

Director’s bio-
Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, Ivy Lin has been living in the United States since 1989.
She moved to Portland, OR from the Midwest in 2002.
Ivy works at ad agency Wieden+Kennedy and has been an independent documentary producer since 2000.  She learned how to make documentaries from working at two local PBS-affiliated TV stations-WILL-TV (Urbana, IL) and SC ETV (Spartanburg, SC) from 1994-1999. 
Before Pig Roast, Ivy directed and produced Knowing All of You Like I Do, a documentary about the closing and deconstruction of the record store Music Millennium NW (the oldest independent record store in the Pacific Northwest), chosen to be screened at the Reel Music Festival 2008.
Ivy is a classical musician by training and a member of Portland Cello Project.

Feature articles in The Oregonian-
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2008/09/portland_chinatowns_history_fu.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2008/11/reclaiming_portlands_chinatown.html
http://blog.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2008/11/northwest_film_festival_offers.html