OPB’s “Oregon Experience” Screens New Film at Hollywood Theatre
OPB’s “Oregon Experience” team for the premiere screening of their new film, “Remember Mulugeta: Confronting Hate in Portland” on Tuesday, February 17 at 7:00 p.m. at the Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland).
About the film: Portland in the 1980s was a hotbed of racist, skinhead violence, which reached a boiling point in 1988 when three neo-Nazis murdered Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw. Was it homegrown hate or did it come from outside?
Following the screening, we’ll host a Q&A with the film’s producers and hear from some of the people featured in the film. Continue reading... “OPB’s “Oregon Experience” Screens New Film at Hollywood Theatre”
If you remember Reese Witherspoon throwing her boots off a mountain ridge in the 2014 movie “Wild,” or recognize familiar places in “Animal House,” “The Goonies,” “Twilight,” “Stand By Me” or “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” then you know Oregon is home to many big-screen moments. How fitting, then, that we even have the world’s last Blockbuster store, in Bend. (There’s a film about that, too.)
On Saturday, April 4, there will be a special sneak preview of the new film from Bruce Campbell, with Bruce in attendance for a Q&A!
#OregonMade “A Simple Machine” was written up in MovieMaker magazine recently. Directed by Mark Huffman and based on a book by Portland writer Evan P. Schneider it tells the story of a young man who adopts radical thrift to try to get out of debt.
#OregonMade “Ernie and Emma,” directed and starring Southern Oregon’s Bruce Campbell, has released a trailer. You can check out the film at the Holly Theater in Medford on Feb. 14.
Erich Cannon’s thriller, “His Monster,” story follows a struggling alcoholic, played by “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor Gabe Casdorph, whose daughter is attacked and mysteriously swept into the ocean, Casdorph’s James Streeter, remains living in the woods, alone, hunting for what he believes is responsible.
Over the course of a single day, the lives of innocent and not-so-innocent individuals collide in a web of misfortune and redemption. All over the city, people are making plans to change their lives — only to see those plans get derailed by others doing the same: Can Kyle steal from his old drug-dealing friend Jimmy so that he and his girlfriend can make a fresh start? When Derek, a man running away from his life by living in a van, is confronted by a violent stranger, will he make a stand or turn and run? 
The Graham Parkes directed “Wishful Thinking” will premiere at SXSW.
“Wildwood” is set to arrive in theaters on October 23, 2026. Producer LAIKA has partnered with Fathom Entertainment for U.S. theatrical distribution and FilmNation Entertainment for international sales, marking a new phase in the studio’s global release strategy.
The McMinnville Short Film Festival (MSFF) runs February 26 – March 1, 2026. Founded in 2011 to celebrate the art of independent film with the goal of introducing emerging creative voices to one another and to our audiences, the internationally recognized MSFF, focuses on a range of narrative topics, including Native American, Drama, LGBTQ, Comedy, Horror, Experimental, Animation and Documentary films.