Outdoor School Film Screening and Community Conversation

Name: Outdoor School Film Screening and Community Conversation
Genre: Drama
Released: 2026-08-04
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Cast: Bringing together experienced actors like Jahi Di'Allo Winston (Queen & Slim, Everything Sucks, Government Cheese), Cycerli Ash (Cellar Door, Pretty Little Liars) and Kendrick Cross (Stranger Things

<div> A tree can be a home and a forest can be a school, but raised in the wilds of 90’s Portland, Vin must first learn to be a child. </div><div>Set in the nostalgia of 1990’s Portland and the timeless beauty of the Oregon woods, we follow charismatic Melvin Shambry, a 12-year-old navigating a childhood shaped by instability, homelessness, and limited access to opportunity.</div><div>When Melvin is introduced to an outdoor education program, time in nature and the presence of caring adults begin to shift his sense of possibility. Told with restraint and rooted in lived experience, Outdoor School explores how access, mentorship, and community can quietly alter the course of a young person’s life.</div><div>A transformative true story about the search for shelter and the power of being seen.</div><div>Screening to be followed by a community conversation.</div>DramaPT1H24M2026-08-04

Bringing together experienced actors like Jahi Di'Allo Winston (Queen & Slim

Everything Sucks

Government Cheese)

Cycerli Ash (Cellar Door

Pretty Little Liars) and Kendrick Cross (Stranger Things

Queen Sugar) with fresh talent like lead actor Karter Halliday — plucked from the very neighborhood where this true story took place — Outdoor School exudes authenticity. Halliday makes his screen debut alongside a supporting cast rich with subtle comedy - Eric Edelstein (Jurassic world)

George Griffith (Twin Peaks)

and Josh Fadem (Better Call Saul) — who juxtapose irony with the story’s inherent grit.

Ime N. Etuk (pronounced "E-May") is a Nigerian-American Producer and Director who grew up in Portland

Oregon. Before joining the Director’s Guild of America

Ime worked on the ABCNEWS shows

World News Tonight and 20/20. He has directed and produced music videos

commercials

and films. His first feature "Hurricane In the Rose Garden" (2008) screened at the Pan African and Slamdance Film Festivals before being picked up for distribution. Ime has worked under some of the most prolific directors in Hollywood

including Paul Haggis “Crash”

The Coen Brothers “The Man Who Wasn’t There”

Antoine Fuqua “Training Day”

and David Lynch “Twin Peaks”.

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Showtimes

August 4, 7:00 pm