According to an article in Transworld Skateboarding *, the Clinton Street Theatre in Portland, Oregon * will be hosting the third yearly Cut and Paste Skateboarding Film Festival. This festival seeks to provide an open , non-commercial forum for skateboarders and related artists to show their filmmaking skills.

Trying to preserve and promote skateboarding's long tradition of independent filmmking and do-it-yourself nature, all commercial projects or works from for-profit organizations are rejected. This is to help ensure that the attendees will not be bombarded with the usual melee of advertisements and corporate hyperbole and swag that usually comes along with such events, to allow the artists complete creative freedom without the responsibility of pleasing corporate sponsors, and to celebrate the most important part of this event: the art.

This year's program is set to include "Driftwood", which Transworld describes as "A psycho-geographical tour of London * by Nick Relph and Oliver Payne." Also set to be presented are the "crutch skating/dancing of Bill Shannon" in DB Griffith's "The Art of Weightlessness", and "Licking the Bowl", Cheryl Dunn's documentary of Simparch's wooden bowl project.

Many more "unpredictable and unbelievable skate related films" are scheduled to be shown which are intended to "leave the viewer in awe."

For more information check the local listings or the Cut And Paste Skateboarding Film Festival's website at www.capff.org .

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