The Portal Film Fest 2 – New International Short Films

Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 7pm

A collection of 4 short films from the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin

Following the hour-long screening, we will have a 15 minute Question and Answer session about the Portal Project followed by a meet and greet with several partners in this exciting new initiative.

Free admission.  Free snacks.  Beer and wine for donation.

Location: Goethe Zentrum (Formerly G. Institute)  2nd Floor Colony Square.  Validated parking.

The Portal Theater Project

Atlanta’s 7 Stages and PushPush Theater are working together to help deepen international cultural exchange opportunities between Atlanta and other parts of the world. This initiative, called the Portal Project, has several aims, namely to generate an affordable, recurring and reciprocal exchange of artists, ideas, scripts, and productions that cross cultural boundaries. One main objective is to build upon current relations toward the establishment a permanent Portal Theater – a primarily American-language theater that provides an international base for reciprocal exchange between international and American artists and groups between established venues. The Portal Project will also include artists working in film, music and interdisciplinary projects. For our purposes, Berlin, Germany will be the central location, chiefly because much of our existing exchange work and international partners (now over 100 constituents and growing!) are based there. Berlin is also the best choice for a Portal Project because there is a tremendous interest in this city for activities that feature American style English. However, we also find this to be the best city for outlying exchanges that are developing now in Amsterdam, Prague, Paris, Belgrade, Israel, Poland, Ukraine, and other points to the east. In addition, through the many contacts our respective theatres have made through the years, we plan to invite theatre artists from other countries who are also working in English to present their work within the Portal Project. In this way, we will encourage interaction among artists from other European countries, and from Africa and South America as well. Currently our theatres have solid relationships with artists in Serbia, South Africa, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and elsewhere.