Board Games at Battlegrounds Gaming Cafe!

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LOCATION: Battlegrounds Gaming Cafe, 3738 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97232 (just up the street from the Hollywood Theatre!)

Enjoy open board gaming! Learn to play, or bring a few friends and take advantage of the game library!

Better Like This

Film

A young man brings home an antique oculist sign and unknowingly lets a shadowy force into his life.

The Raven (1963)

Film

A magician (Peter Lorre), who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer (Vincent Price) for help.

Matt Devino & David Yohe

Guest

Matt & David are the Directors of THE DÆMON.

David Yohe is a Writer, Director, and Producer, born on the freeways of California in a classic burnt-orange Camaro. He is known for his unique storytelling, viewer engagement, and imagination. Dave is a dog lover, sports enthusiast and a proud member of the LGBTQ community.

Ethan Messecar

Guest

Ethan Messecar is an award-winning filmmaker based in Ventura, CA. He focuses on tackling genres through the horror lens, with an emphasis on trauma and in-depth character studies. His shorts, “Rewind” won Best '80s Retro Short at the 2020 Vault Film Festival, and “Midnight Broadcast” won Best Short Horror Screenplay at the 13 Horror Contest. He graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a BA in Film & Media Studies. HIs short film "Innsmouth Blvd" makes its World Premiere at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival.

Tobias Enevoldsen

Guest

Tobias was born 1978 in Copenhagen, Denmark, but spent his childhood among woodland fairytale creatures in a small rural village. He brought his backwood country superstitions back to the Danish capital as an adult. He has spent most of his life with storytelling, trained as a comic book artist at The Joe Kubert School in New Jersey, made comic books few people read and played folk music few people heard. He turned to microbudget DIY filmmaking as a way of dealing with turning 40.

Christina Acevedo

Guest

Christina Acevedo is a multifaceted artist based in Philadelphia. Her directorial and screenwriting path took off in 2008 with her debut short film ‘Wild Idle’ premiering in Canne’s Courts Métrages program and ICA Philadelphia. Since then, Christina has produced experimental music, created video art, short films, music videos and is founder of ProForce Sport, a martial arts athleisure brand. Christina is now researching her next horror film, and will release a new EP this winter for her project T I N A.

Brice Brown

Guest

Brice Brown is a stop-motion animator from West Linn Oregon, a 2022 CalArts alumnus of the Experimental Animation program. Here, he developed a custom modeling clay formula for his films, which he continues to sell to fellow animators. His first film, Thomas And The Extraordinary Bathroom Incident, premiered at the Hollywood Theater in 2017 receiving first prize for the International Youth Silent Film Festival. This year, he was the lead animator for a Nounsfest submission directed by Lee Peffer.

Nolen Sternkopf

Guest

Nolen Sternkopf is a Pacific Northwest based writer/director. He is constantly feeding his passion for storytelling with exciting filmmaking projects, many of which deal with the supernatural and twisting genre elements in creative new ways. Nolen loves working with small, passionate crews to create something ambitious on a small budget. He often utilizes a mixture of old-school and current filmmaking techniques, employing past methods in tandem with current technologies.

Shane Day

Guest

Shane Day is a Settler-Canadian of English/Irish Heritage from Peterborough, Ontario.  A graduate from the Creative Writing Program at Concordia University in Montreal, and an alumni of the Cinema Studies program at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands, Shane is first and foremost a story-teller whose heart belongs to Cinema. He is the co-founder of Skinner Street Films as well as a writer, director and producer. His latest short film, "The Neighbourhood at the End of the World," is currently making its rounds at festivals across the world.

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