Bits & Pieces: Snowden and Poitras

Edward Snowden will be making an appearance in Portland well, sort of.

The Portland Oregon Womens Film Festival will be held this week, and organizers announced a few additions (after the Tribunes story on the festival), including Citizenfour, the real-life thriller made when filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald encountered whistleblower Snowden in Hong Kong as Snowden handed over classified documents providing evidence of mass invasion of privacy by the National Security Agency.

Itll screen at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd., site of POWFest, March 12 through 15 (powfest.com).

Poitras had been working on a movie about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name Citizenfour in January 2013; Snowden admired Poitras, who had long been the target of government surveillance and refused to be intimidated.

The other POWFest addition is a bit different I Believe in Unicorns, a debut film by Leah Meyerhoff and a story about troubled young love in a stunning and complex landscape. Itll be shown at 9 p.m. Saturday, March 14.

The Great Love Debate

The national tour will stop in Portland, as 100 eligible bachelors and 100 dynamic women will be seated opposite of one another to dish, dissect, discuss and debate the question, Why am I still single?

It happens at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at Imago Theatre, 17 S.E. Eighth Ave. Tickets are $40 per person and available at eventbrite.com. For info: http://www.GreatLoveDebate.com.

August Wilson winners

The August Wilson Monologue Project produced three winners recently, and theyll be competing in the national competition, May 2 through 5 in New York City. They are Hailey Kilgore of Clackamas High, Quinci Freeman-Lytle of Grant and Isaiah Sims of Putnam, each of them proving to be the best in delivering stories from the late, great playwright Wilson.

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Bits & Pieces: Snowden and Poitras