Please join us for an in-person film screening and conversation with writer and director Walter Thompson-Hernández. We will watch his 12-minute film—If I Go Will They Miss Me—for which he won a Sundance award in the short film category.
September 8, 2022
6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Brian Doyle Auditorium, Dundon-Berchtold Hall
Co-hosted by OIEDI & Portland Magazine
About If I Go Will They Miss Me
On January 14, 2020, Delta airlines dumped roughly 15,000 gallons of jet fuel on an area of Los Angeles that included neighborhoods and schools. Walter Thompson-Hernández grew up in one of those communities. The incident and his childhood dreams about flight inspired this 12-minute film.
Walter Thompson-Hernández, a UP alum from the Class of 2009, is a former New York Times journalist and podcast host of California Love. He’s the author of The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland, which is being adapted into a film for Fox Searchlight. He wrote and directed If I Go Will They Miss Me.