Prolific Portland-based producers Neil Kopp and Anish Savjani recently won an Emmy for “Rebel Ridge” as Best TV Movie. Kopp and Savjani’s production company, filmscience, has produced many award winning features including the acclaimed Sundance and Netflix hit “I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore,” and Kelly Reichardt’s most recent film “The Mastermind.”
Formed in 2005, filmscience has produced over 20 features that have been nominated for numerous Independent Spirit Awards and screened at festivals around the world, including Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Toronto, Sundance and Telluride.
These films include Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind,” “Showing Up” and “Wendy and Lucy,” Jeremy Saulnier’s “Rebel Ridge,” “Green Room” and “Blue Ruin,” Macon Blair’s “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore,” Joe Swanberg’s “Hannah Takes the Stairs” and Ritesh Batra’s “Photograph.”
A number of other projects by emerging and established independent filmmakers are currently in development and production.