MovieMaker Magazine Covers “Green Room” + Bend Is One Of The “50 Film Fests Worth The Entry Fee”

IMG_6194Green Room” graces the cover of MovieMaker Magazine’s latest edition (spring 2016) and delves into an-depth interview with director, Jeremy Saulnier about how the film came together.

In the same edition, MovieMaker names BendFilm as one of “50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee”.  Congrats!

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A24 Picked Up US Rights To “Green Room”

the_green_room A24 has picked up the US rights to “Green Room” before it premieres (N. American) at the Toronto Film Festival this September.

Green Room” was shot and produced in Oregon, and is  the latest thriller Jeremy Saulnier (“Blue Ruin”) and produced by Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani and Victor Moyers, and starring Patrick Stewart and Anton Yelchin.  It’s set to have it’s theatrical release spring 2016. It was also part of this year’s Cannes Director’s Fortnight .

Read more here.   Continue reading... “A24 Picked Up US Rights To “Green Room””

“Green Room” Reviews are in After Cannes Director’s Fortnight

“Green Room”, Jeremy Saulnier’s (Blue Ruin) punk chiller-thriller earned some good reviews at it’s world premiere during the Cannes Director’s Fortnight this year.  This Oregon-shot-and-produced feature had Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani and Victor Moyers at the helm, starring Patrick Stewart.

Reviews below:

Hollywood Reporter

Variety

Indie Wire

Deadline Hollywood

Vanity Fair

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“Green Room” Announced for Directors’ Fortnight 2015

Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 7.18.31 AMThis year’s Cannes Director’s Fortnight lineup will feature a number of American independent titles, including the world premiere of Oregon-shot-and-produced “Green Room,”  the latest thriller from Fortnight alum, Jeremy Saulnier (“Blue Ruin”), produced by Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani and Victor Moyers. Read more in Variety here. Continue reading... ““Green Room” Announced for Directors’ Fortnight 2015”

Portland’s Living Room Has Some New Art! #OregonMade Community Art Piece Installed At Pioneer Courthouse Square

Since its first filmed project (“The Fisherman’s Bride” released in 1909) Oregon media production has expanded to thousands of movies, television shows, documentaries, animation projects, commercials, music videos, and video games. The industry has kept production crew, talent, and services thriving in Oregon.  Coming off Oregon Film office’s 50th-anniversary celebration last year, we wanted to create a lasting acknowledgment of our hard-working production professionals so we teamed up with Open Eye Art to create this community art project.  Each individual circle of color you see on the plaques to the left was made by hundreds of Oregonian production professionals that gathered at the OMPA Source Book release party last month and tried their hands at spin art.  Continue reading... “Portland’s Living Room Has Some New Art! #OregonMade Community Art Piece Installed At Pioneer Courthouse Square”

Smelly Outdoor Restrooms Drove This Local Vendor To Change The Industry

one of our luxury restroom trailers on-site

Often we get asked how we got into the luxury restroom trailers business. Well, they say that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’, and that was certainly true in our case. Back in 2011 when I was planning my outdoor wedding and checking into outdoor restroom options, I found there weren’t really options beyond smelly construction Porta-the founders of Luxury Restroom TrailersPotties. When the wedding was over, we resolved to change that.

We knew that weddings weren’t the only events that deserved better sanitation options; and, in the years since we founded Luxury Restroom Trailers, we’ve brought a new level of cleanliness, comfort, and service to outdoor restrooms for corporate events, movie shoots, store remodels, and farm-to-table dinners. Continue reading... “Smelly Outdoor Restrooms Drove This Local Vendor To Change The Industry”

Mushrooms Are Now A Solution For Eco-Minded Set Designers

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Ecovative, a US company, is leading the way in manufacturing environmentally-friendly products that could change the way set designers and prop makers use materials.  Their product, Myco Foam, made from mycelium, corn stalks/ husks and other agricultural waste, is manufactured through a special “growing” process and can replace any kind of Styrofoam that is used on set.  Pretty great, right?  Read more from our Green Film Shooting friends in Europe, and how you can try it. Continue reading... “Mushrooms Are Now A Solution For Eco-Minded Set Designers”

The Confused Breakfast Podcast Visits The Short Circuit House In Astoria

Our friends at the Confused Breakfast podcast are at it again – they just made their second field trip to Astoria and this time to visit the Short Circuit House. 

The Confused Breakfast podcast takes its listeners and viewers on a “nostalgic journey back to the movie rental store era and the amazing movies from our childhood that we all know and love. With the benefit of 20+ years of hindsight, we revisit and dissect these classic movies to see if they still move us the way they did as kids. Continue reading... “The Confused Breakfast Podcast Visits The Short Circuit House In Astoria”

Neil Kopp at ISA’s Third Thursdays PDX June 20!

Screenwriters & Filmmakers —
Producer NEIL KOPP will rock the house at ISA’s THIRD THURSDAYS PDX – June 20!

This is a rare opportunity to see meet guest speaker NEIL KOPP, Portland-born producer who’s credits include Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves and Certain Women, and Jeremy Salunier’s Green Room and Hold the Dark (Netflix).

WHEN: Thursday, Jun 20th – 7pm
WHERE: NW Film Center Office & South Park *
934 SW Salmon, Portland OR, 97205
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Sundance To Premiere Both Debra Granik’s & Gus Van Sant’s New Films

Sundance Film Festival announced its lineup today and we are pleased to see that Debra Granik‘s (“Winter’s Bone”) new feature, “Untitled Debra Granik Project” was just accepted in the festival’s World Premiere section.  Granik wrote (with Anne Rosellini) and directed this #OregonMade film. “A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. A small mistake tips them off to authorities sending them on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own. Continue reading... “Sundance To Premiere Both Debra Granik’s & Gus Van Sant’s New Films”