Opens tomorrow 1/27/2012 for a week long run at Seattle’s NW Film Forum.

http://nwfilmforum.org/

http://www.darksidecinema.com/index.html

by Cory Frye of the Corvallis Gazette Times’ Entertainer

http://m.gazettetimes.com/entertainment/how-the-fire-fell-a-film-by-edward-p-davee/article_fd3cb282-22a9-11e1-88f0-001871e3ce6c.html

“It was a good year for Northwest Film, and the festival includes some really great features from the region, like How to Die in Oregon, The Wanteds, and How the Fire Fell, all of which should make you proud to live here.” – Portland Mercury Blogtown

“As if peering through a faded memory, How the Fire Fell takes you through a moment of time in a haze of mystery and wonder.” -the NW Film Forum

“”Davee is a passionate filmmaker with a strong, innovative approach. I look forward to his future films. It’s only a matter of time before this director discovers a more seamless way of meshing the story and the telling in his work.” – Eugene Weekly

Here’s a snippet from the official announcement:
This year’s Fellowship recipient is Edward P. Davee, who will receive a cash
award of $15,000 administered by the Northwest Film Center.  Davee works for
the audiovisual department of Reed College and is a longtime filmmaker with
several acclaimed short works including Crowfilm (2003), an official selection in
the 30th Northwest Film & Video Festival.  His first feature, How The Fire Fell—a
dark, semi-silent telling of the Brides of Christ religious cult active in Corvallis,
Oregon, in 1903—is an official selection of the 38th Northwest Filmmakers’
Festival and will screen at the Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium on Saturday,
November 19 at 7:00 p.m.

Davee’s proposed project for the Oregon Media Arts Fellowship, entitled Lost
Division, will be shot on Super-16mm and follows three AWOL World War II
soldiers, an army chaplain, a shell-shocked 16mm photographer, and an
infantryman as they carefully traverse the dense Hürtgen forest near Belgium
over the course of two days.

According to Finne, “The subject—soldiers reacting to the horrors of war—is
timely, important, and kind of ignored.  Also, the project will significantly enhance
the filmmaker’s proven skill level from graphic black and white to subtle color.
And he has the eye to pull it off.  There are no doubts about his technical ability
or his level of support.  I absolutely love the idea of the photographer
concentrating on beauty—an alternate reality within his reality—making images
to stay sane.  I want to see this film.”

11-15-11 Oregon Media Arts Fellowship Anncd

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More super kind words from Marjorie Skinner!

Great article from Portland Monthly’s Anne Adams !