“Grimm” Honored with Environmental Award

NBC Universal’s series, “Grimm” was honored for it’s environmentally friendly production practices at the 33rd Annual Travel Portland Tourism and Hospitality Industry Awards last week.  This award recognizes environmentally friendly business practices that “help sustain Oregon’s exceptional quality of life”. “Grimm” has utilized many local green and sustainable vendors during season 1 and plans on [...]

Paris loves Portland (and its TV shows)

In case you hadn’t heard, there was a 10 day festival celebrating Portland’s arts, culture and music scene recently and Portland Monthly has a great recap here.  Travel Portland was there selling the city as a great destination and when Laura Guimond was in the Paris metro she saw this poster.  Pretty cool huh?   [...]

Lot’s of Good Oregon Film and Television Available this Weekend

We’ve been highlighting mostly the fine Oregon based television work that has been airing recently but this weekend not only is there “Grimm” and “Portlandia” but the feature film “Gone” produced by Lakeshore Entertainment premieres in theaters this weekend.  Harold Phillips’ blog Oregon Film And TV Dollars put up a good post about the film [...]

Online Auction Benefitting the NW Film Center

For the NW Film Center, life goes on after the Portland International Film Festival. In addition to PIFF the Film Center host year-round exhibition screenings as well as educational outreach programs, workshops, and production classes and we do all of this as a non-profit. The Film Center depends on grants, sponsorship support, our loyal members [...]

All Three Oregon Produced Shows Airing New Episdoes this Weekend!

Are you ready for a weekend full of Oregon produced Television?  Starting tonight on IFC “Portlandia” airs episode 2 of its second season.  Tonight’s episode includes guest stars Jeff Goldblum, Edward James Olmos, Eddie Vedder, and even an Eddie Vedder tatoo.  I had the chance to see the episode early and I have to say [...]