Hi All– I’m the new intern here at the Governor’s Office of Film & Television. I love all things film and Oregon, as well as baking and studying communication theory. If you want to talk about the entertainment industry, I’m practically a walking IMDb.
Have a good one! -Katlyn Prentice
You can learn quite a bit by the clothes you wear. Walking around my campus in Boston, sporting my new Portlandia sweatshirt, I learned a lot about the impact that Oregon filmmaking has on rest of the country. Continue reading... “The Impact of Oregon Film”
On Monday July 8, the 2013 Oregon Legislative session wrapped up, and it has proven to be a landmark legislative session. On Monday morning the House concurred with the amendments the Senate passed for HB 3367 over the weekend resulting in an increase annual allocation for the Oregon Production Investment Fund tax credit. The allocation in OPIF will go from $6million a year to $10million a year. Other important legislation that will positively affect Oregon’s film, television, and digital media industry includes HB 5028 which allows the Oregon Innovation Council to fund the Oregon Story Board, and SB 836 which exempts film, tv and theartical hair, and make-up professionals from certain cosmetology regulations. Continue reading... “Oregon Legislature Round-Up – Transformational for Oregon’s Film, TV, and Digital Media Industry”
Oregon blues legend Curtis Salgado lights a fire at the OMPA Classic on July 12.
Salgado headlines the OMPA Classic on July 12
Legendary blues man and May 2013 recipient of the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award Curtis Salgado takes center stage at the OMPA Classic, a fundraiser for the Media Arts Education scholarships, presented by Pacific Office Automation. The OMPA Classic takes place on July 12, 2013 at The Resort at The Mountain (Lakeside Lawn) in Welches, Oregon and includes a golf tournament, croquet tournament and awards party with an auction and raffle. Continue reading... “Curtis Salgado Lends a Hand for Media Arts Education Scholarships”
Polluted Pictures (Cell Count) is proud to announce that, Producer Christian Burgess and horror movie icon Bill Oberst Jr., have been officially attached to be a part of the “Love Sick” production later this fall.
“To say that I’m excited about this movie would be an understatement,” says writer and director Todd E. Freeman. “This is a very personal project that is based in a very real time in my life when I wasn’t sure if I was going to be with the woman that I loved until the day I died.
The Northwest Film Center School of Film announces an upcoming workshop for filmmakers:
GRANTWRITING FOR FILM
THURSDAYS, JUN 20 & 27 Taught by Courtney Hermann Register now
Develop the components needed for a competitive grant application.
Topics: how to prepare a one-page treatment, artist statement, budget, and filmography; tips for selecting and preparing work samples and reels; traits of an effective promotional video; see and discuss samples, then bring what you’re working on to the second class meeting for feedback and critique. Continue reading... “New workshop at the Film Center: GRANTWRITING FOR FILM”
Portland Oregon, May 7, 2013 . . . Portland-based web series “The Digits” has recently joined forces with education icon PBS to offer educators a free teacher-tested math resource for their elementary school students. Created by Scotty Iseri, The Digits will be part of PBS LearningMedia beginning mid-April 2013 and will offer teachers ten appisodes (web episode that’s also available as an app) of The Digits.
So don’t say you weren’t invited: We want you. We need you. Please forward, post, blog, write a letter, phone bank, take a bus, ride a carpool, Facebook and Tweet asap. But most important: Attend or support Industry Day on May 2nd.
PORTLAND, Oregon (April 12, 2013) After taking the feature film “Cell Count” to film festivals all over the world in 2012 and seeing the film through to distribution, it is now Polluted Pictures profound pleasure to announce they will co-produce the feature film “Deep Dark” together with Vitamin M in the Summer ’13.
Bill Oberst Jr. joins the cast of the film Cell Count II: Blood Count
PORTLAND, Oregon (February 7th, 2013) The feature film “Cell Count” went to film festivals all over the world in 2012 and is now available on all leading digital VOD stores including iTunes. It is now the Freeman Brothers’ profound pleasure to announce that horror icon Bill Oberst Jr. will be coming onboard for the upcoming sequel entitled “Cell Count II: Blood Count.”
Teaser Poster for the feature film Cell Count II: Blood Count
PORTLAND, Oregon (January 17, 2013) The feature film “Cell Count” went to film festivals all over the world in 2012 and is now available on all leading digital VOD stores including iTunes. It is now the Freeman Brothers’ profound pleasure to present the Teaser poster for the upcoming sequel entitled “Cell Count II: Blood Count.”
“Blood Count” starts where the first film left off and takes our survivors on a high speed journey filled with monsters and fugitives. Continue reading... “Cell Count 2 News”
PORTLAND, Oregon (April 12, 2013) After taking the feature film “
Bill Oberst Jr. joins the cast of the film Cell Count II: Blood Count
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