Portland State Magazine Fall 2013

8 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2013 Fanfare WE WANT TO HEAR about your books and recordings and your future exhibits, performances, and directing ventures. Contact the magazine by emailing psumag@pdx.edu , or mailing Portland State Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751. Prof films musical love story WHEN FIRST-TIME author Bob Jonas MS ’92 came up with a story idea that involved revolution in China with an American teen at its center, he knew he couldn’t write it while living and working in China. Jonas was a librarian at an international school and at the Public Security Bureau College in Shanghai. If the authorities learned of his writing project, he was sure his job and his visa would quickly expire. Now a school librarian in Germany, Jonas has published ChinAlive , a novel for young adults that reimagines the 2008 Olympics as a platform for democratic upheaval in China. An award-winning school librarian for the past 17 years, Jonas spent seven years working in China and has also taught in Chile, Saudi Arabia, and Beaverton, Oregon. Emmy-winning filmmaker and PSU Professor Dustin Morrow has written, directed, and produced a feature-length film, Everything Went Down . The realist musical is about a widowed, grief- stricken professor played by Noah Drew (above left), who meets a frustrated singer-songwriter played by indie rocker Kate Tucker (above right). Together they are healed by the power of song. Morrow, who has taught film production and theory at Portland State since 2011, has won numerous awards for his films, which have been shown around the world. Everything Went Down won Best Feature Film and Best Score at the SENE Film, Music, & Arts Festival in Rhode Island. Author reworks China history