"Imagining Home," a documentary from local directors Sue Arbuthnot and Richard Wilhelm, is showing this Saturday at the Portland Art Museum's Whitsell Auditorium, part of the 36th Annual NW Film & Video Festival.

"When Columbia Villa, a troubled and dilapidated Portland public housing neighborhood originally built to house WWII shipyard workers and later ravaged by gangs and drugs, was demolished, 1,300 residents were displaced. In its place, New Columbia, a federal HOPE VI urban redevelopment project, was created as a model for progressive community building. This socio-economically mixed neighborhood has provided new homes, a school, work opportunities, store, and other amenities for about 3,000 residents. Many of the