DOXA at 20
Vancouver’s film festival opened my eyes to the beauty and power of documentary cinema. I’m forever grateful.
Dorothy Woodend is culture editor of The Tyee. Reach her here. SHARES On the eve of DOXA’s Documentary Film Festival’s 20th Anniversary, the festival’s former director of programming Dorothy Woodend, seen here in 2015 in front of a still from
Monsterman, reflects on the good, the bad and the kinda kooky of two decades of documentary cinema.
Photo courtesy of DOXA Documentary Film Festival.
Twenty years ago, documentary films were for nerds. Not cinema snobs, but even nerdier types turtleneck-wearing, herb-tea drinking, no-fun folks. The cinematic equivalent of bran, documentaries were for people who lectured about the Oxford comma, watched PBS exclusively and started every sentence with the words, “Well, actually…”
Two daring Chinese American women took to Portland’s skies to escape earthbound 20th-century limits, secured lasting legacies
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Hazel Ying Lee (second from right) was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. (National Museum of the United States Air Force)
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Two of Portland’s airborne pioneers, however, mostly flew under the radar.
Leah Hing began taking flying lessons in 1932 when she was 24. By then, the Washington High School grad already had crisscrossed the United States by train as a saxophonist with a six-member band variously called Portland Chinese Girls’ Band, Chinese Show Boat and Honorable Wu’s Vaudeville Troupe. She had started the band as a means of getting out of Portland and seeing the wider world. The band’s signature number was “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
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