The Confluence

Here’s the thing: You’re Going to Pay Your Oregon Taxes Anyway.

So here’s how to get up to 10% back and fund something worth funding.

Every year, the Oregon Department of Revenue runs a five-day online auction. Oregon residents and businesses bid on state income tax credits at a discount. The minimum bid is 90 cents on the dollar.

That means a $50,000 Oregon tax credit costs you $45,000.

The $5,000 difference? That’s not a rounding error. That’s yours.

And the $45,000 you spent?

The Oregon Media Production Association (OMPA) presents Cine | Seen 2026!! A night of short films showcasing the talents of filmmakers based in Oregon! Highlighting the unique perspective and films of underrepresented and underserved artists. Join us in creating a space for creative expression here in Oregon. Project must have been shot in Oregon. Submit your films, web series, documentaries, music videos, etc.

SUBMIT HERE

Submission deadline is Monday August 24th, 5pm
Where: The Hollywood Theatre

When: September 30th, 7:30p – 10p (Doors at 6:30p)

(Tickets to go on sale closer to Event Day)
$12 for adults, $10 for senior/student/children, and $9 for Hollywood Theatre Members

Presented by: OMPA
Produced by: YGB Portland
graphic by: Good Green PDX

For the 40th anniversary of the release of the #OregonMade “Stand By Me,” Brownsville will be throwin’ a party like no other on July 25, 2026.

Come for the blueberry pie, music, games and Pez, cherry flavored Pez. You won’t be disappointed.

Find out more here.

Tania Raymonde (Lost, Goliath) leads the ensemble cast of writer-director Taylor Morden’s feature Eat Your Heart Out, which has recently wrapped production, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The cast also includes Jesse Rath (Supergirl), Emily Kimball (Dexter: Resurrection), Breanna Yde (School of Rock), Rob Huebel (Running Point), Brian Austin Green (Beverly Hills, 90210), Steve Agee (Peacemaker), Clare Grant (Palm Royale) and Brendan Sexton III (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri).

Hailing from PopMotion Pictures, Eat Your Heart Out is set in a small town that is about to host a major music festival, just as a risky new party drug begins to spread among the young locals.

In just over a year, planners say a new museum celebrating Oregon’s film history will open to the public in the Cottage Grove Armory. The city and surrounding area has served as a backdrop to many notable films since the 1920s.

Recently in the lobby of Cottage Grove City Hall, Katherine Wilson’s voice trembled as a finance clerk handed her and her husband Phillip a $15,000 check.

The money from the Woodard Family Foundation launches a 24-year dream for Wilson, who’s worked on many major film projects in the past half century, including “National Lampoon’s Animal House.”

The submission period opens this week for Tag! Queer Shorts Festival 2027: You’re It! Submissions will be accepted July 1 through December 1, 2026 exclusively at filmfreeway.com/tagqsf. LGBTQIA+ filmmakers are invited to submit films with a runtime of 15 minutes or under for consideration. The two-day festival will take place at the historic Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon on March 20-21 with an official selection of approximately 40 shorts.

The 2027 theme “You’re It!” references the familiar childhood game of tag.

Today, Disney+ announced that the fourth and final season of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder will premiere on Wednesday, July 29, ahead of the original series’ 25th anniversary. In addition, an all-new stop-motion holiday special, A Proud Family Wizmas, will debut later this year on the platform.

A Proud Family Wizmas is a song-filled, stop-motion holiday special produced by Disney Television Animation, part of Disney Kids & Family, with creator and executive producer Bruce W. Smith and executive producer Ralph Farquhar of BaR Productions, alongside co-director David Brooks and Portland-based stop-motion studio HouseSpecial.

Love Is King will host a private advance screening of UNSEEN on June 22 at its Portland office, gathering the veterans, sponsors, board members, and volunteers who supported the film before it reaches a wider audience this summer.

UNSEEN, written and directed by Chad Brown, follows five U.S. veterans on a 200-mile bikepacking expedition through Oregon’s backcountry, where they confront trauma, build resilience, and claim the right to roam freely outdoors.

All updates, future screenings, and showings near you will be posted at: roamunseen.org

#OregonMade “A Simple Machine” released a full length trailer and announced upcoming screening dates.

A coming-of-age story about the cost of wanting less in a world built on wanting more, “A Simple Machine” is written and directed by Mark Alan Hoffman. Inspired by the novel from Evan P. Schneider.

Starring Richard Blackmon, Gabriela Bloomgarden, and Brad Carter.

Original score by Mark Orton (The Holdovers, Nebraska) and John Hancock.

Cinematography by Kevin Fletcher (It’s What’s Inside, Paradise Records)

Winner of 3 Audience Awards – Cleveland International Film Festival, Heartland International Film Festival, Lighthouse International Film Festival.

Chris Elliott (Scary Movie franchise), Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer), Sara Tomko (Resident Alien), Oliver Cooper (Project X) and James Duval (Donnie Darko!) have entered production on Bad Day for Bigfoot, the sophomore feature from Zach Green and Devin O’Rourke on the heels of their cult comedy Foil.

The film follows a Bigfoot hoax that goes horribly wrong in the middle of an actual Sasquatch hot spot, leading to a chaotic struggle between the hoaxers, investigators, and a supernatural force that defies explanation.