Tauraro  Film+Music

Festival 2025

THE FIFTH ANNUAL

Portland, OR

Hillsboro, OR

&

Philadelphia, PA

(International Black Indigenous Circus Week)

2025

Xavier Knight, Aikane

Xavier Knight, Aikane

Yoney Leyser, Ripper, Sterling Hampton

Yoney Leyser, Ripper, Sterling Hampton

Saturday May 31st

Saturday May 31st

PRIDE SEAON KICK OFF PARTY

PRIDE SEAON KICK OFF PARTY

The Line Up

TAURARO FEST IS HONERED TO CURATE THE 2SLGBTQIA+ BLOCK AT THE SECOND ANNUAL HILLSBORO FILM FESTIVAL MAY 31ST, 2025 AT THE VAULT

May 30th FRIDAY

5pm-9pm

  • Meet your film community and producers.

  • Narrative in the short category.

MAY 31ST SATURDAY

2pm- Midnight

  • An animated Polynesian love story set in pre-colonial Hawaii between a King fighting to save his kingdom and an elemental. (14 min)

    Oscar qualified

  • The epic, unforgettable documentary about the dramatic world of international drag wresting. (22 min)

    International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Vienna International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival

  • Merman: A powerful gritty film about a mans journey to confidence as a Black gay man in LA. (10 min)

    Figs: The story of aging powerfully and feeding community as a Black woman. (11 min)

    Sundance

    Kylie: What is like to be a Black. ballerina? Do you leave the hood behind? (5 min)

  • The surreal experience of Blackness and transness and of breaking the fourth and fifth walls to collide with the self. (run time TBD)

    Independent

  • A story of Black Indigenous becoming through music, drag and burlesque.

    Independent

  • After taking in amazing films, chill or shake it to fantastic tunes via the turn table, food drinks and awards. Mingle and kiki. Full party line up coming soon.

JUNE 1ST SUNDAY

8am-9pm

  • Start your final day of the festival mixing with industry peeps and talking about the awards results.

  • Docu-shorts from the pacific northwest.

  • Part two of the narrative shorts.

  • Enjoy a lively Q & A lead by the producers of the Hillsboro Film Fest and Tauraro Festival.

  • HFF’s close out of the annual festival.

Tauraro Artist in Residency Film & Music Festival.
Black Indigenous Two Spirit Creativity. No limits.

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