Ron Craig
Executive Director
ron.craig@gmail.com
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Ron Craig, a lifetime Oregonian and the executive director and founder of Astoria Productions and the PDX AAFF, has had a long love affair with independent films. It started with a visit to Paris as a young man of twenty-one in the spring of 1968. As he recalls, the students were after De Gaulle’s head and they got it! Amongst all this chaos, Ron found his way to a number of independent film houses. These encounters changed his understanding of film as an art form, and inspired him to someday create his own film festivals. Ron’s inspiration has taken him to produce a children’s book and three films including Searching for York for which he received a 2009 Emmy nomination.
Astoria Productions realized a dream in 2007 of staging a world-class film festival on the northern Oregon coast: the Astoria International Film Festival, now in its third year. We now have the opportunity to share a new dream with the Portland community, the First Annual Portland African American Film Festival, to be screened November 13-14-15, 2009, and we look forward to coming together to experience and celebrate the depth, contributions, history and more, of African American film and filmmakers for years to come.
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Dawson Park
The 120 year-old cupola has been an informal gathering place for the African-American community |
