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Tipping Point
The following description was submitted by the event organizer.
In 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, the largest civil rights protest in recent history erupted worldwide during a global pandemic. Portland, Oregon, became the focus of media attention for its protests and demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality. TIPPING POINT is a documentary film that captures the first 90 days of the Portland protests. Tipping Point humanizes the struggle through the individual stories of Portlanders on the ground while allowing Portland’s story to serve as a mirror to the rest of the country — the past that brought us here and the future we must choose.
Willamette Week wrote that Tipping Point reaches for a “deeper, depoliticized look at the city’s spotlight-grabbing reckoning” through compelling interviews by Julianne R. Johnson and gorgeous footage captured by director Jon Meyer. It creates an opportunity for members of the Portland community to examine the recent protests through the perspectives of local protesters, police, activists, live-streamers, historians, and civil rights advocates in a way that goes beyond the mass-media representation of tear gas, flash-bangs and people screaming.
Funds raised at the Portland premiere this September 9th will bolster ongoing efforts to make Tipping Point widely available online. No one involved in producing this documentary will receive profits or royalties. Any profits will be distributed to benefit BIPOC-owned and operated businesses and organizations in the Portland community.