Pauline from 2 to 3 - An Exclusive Community Screening
Schedule
Wed Nov 26 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Cinema 21 | Portland, OR
About this Event
An Exclusive Community Screening of Pauline from 2 to 3
CRIN Creative is stoked to invite award-winning filmmaker, Richard Rutkowski, to Cinema 21 for an exclusive screening of his heartwarming documentary, Pauline from 2 to 3. The film recently premiered at Heartland International FF and is excitedly continuing its festival tour. Rutkowski recently had the opportunity to work as a director of photography on Criminal, which had recently filmed in Portland. We're excited to have him back in town to share such a deeply personal and uplifting story of family, strength, and the importance of joy. This event is a one-time private screening outside of the film's trip through the festival circuit, just for Portland's film family to sit and enjoy together to kick off this holiday season.
SYNOPSIS:
Super Ager Pauline Rutkowski, blessed with extraordinary physical and mental health, spends her 102nd and 103rd years on camera in this new feature documentary. Born to Polish parents in 1921 and raised on a Depression Era farm with eleven siblings, she has lived her entire life in Western Pennsylvania, surviving much and many across the 20th and 21st centuries. In her decades of hard work, early business success, and personal hardships while raising a sprawling family spanning five generations, Pauline embodies an often overlooked part of America’s “Greatest Generation,” its women. Throughout this visually inventive, upbeat portrait of advanced aging Pauline’s can-do attitudes reveal innate grit and a razor sharp wit. At a moment that seems particularly apt, with future generations expected to survive to and exceed their 100th birthdays, we witness in Pauline the example of strength, humility, and decency from a bygone era.
You can learn more about the film and the incredible team who put it together here.
Agenda
🕑: 08:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Director Q&A
Host: Richard Rutkowski
Info:
Credits
RICHARD RUTKOWSKI
DIRECTOR
Richard is an active cinematographer based in New York City. His work on the first seasons of FX’s Cold War spy drama The Americans drew widespread critical acclaim. His camera work on the streaming drama Manhattan earned two ASC Award Nominations. Recent projects include Apple's TV’s Sugar, garnering both an Emmy nomination and the ASC Award this year for Outstanding Cinematography. His work also includes Masters of the Air, Apple TV's epic story of B-17 pilots in WWII and the third installment in the Band of Brothers franchise, produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. An earlier documentary, The Space in Back of You, chronicled the creative relationship between Japanese dancer Suzushi Hanayagi and theater maestro Robert Wilson. This documentary was screened in theaters internationally and aired on Arte Channel in France. Richard is one of Pauline’s fifteen grandchildren.
Where is it happening?
Cinema 21, 616 Northwest 21st Avenue, Portland, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
