Jon Garcia, Sunset High school’s language arts teacher, created a video designed to combat cyber-bullying, and has got the attention of the $10,000 Paste Cloud Video Contest. Paste Cloud were, “giving away $10,000 to celebrate the launch of our new video platform for musicians, short filmmakers, comedians and more.” Read more here. Continue reading... “Local High School’s Anti-Bullying Video, Wins Paste Cloud Contest”
Ashland is MovieMaker’s #5 in the magazine’s “Best Places To Live and Work as a MovieMaker 2016: Top 10 Small Cities and Towns”.
This is what MovieMaker had to say about Ashland: ” The great Pacific Northwest… my, how screenwriters, directors and cinematographers love you. While Vancouver, Portland and Seattle battle for the blockbuster flicks and moody TV shows, this scenic, low-key small town in Oregon of around 20,000 people keeps building a hearty film community.
Ashland is unusually dedicated to the arts. Continue reading... “Ashland #5 In MovieMaker’s “Best Places To Live and Work 2016: Top 10 Small Cities And Towns””
Todd Haynes’, “Carol” collected 6 Oscar Nominations this morning; Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Costume Design, Original Score, Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography.
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Laika uses stop-motion animation techniques to bring their characters to life, but with hundreds of puppets needed for the process it is painstaking to create the many expressions and movement needed to make the action fluid. The studio overcame this by becoming early adopter’s of the 3-D printing process that enabled them to create the many minuscule changing facial features without losing any of the artistry that goes into each puppet. Continue reading... “Laika Wins Technical Oscar’s Award For 3-D Printing Technology”
The annual 2015 Oregon Actors Awards took place at the Portland Center Stage, to a packed house over the week end. The awards recognized outstanding members of Oregon’s film, video and multimedia industry. Four awards were given to film, TV and commercial actors, and one for community service.
(Watch KGW’s piece on the evening here.)
The winners were:
Also at the event were the graduate actors from the Cast Iron Studio’s Class of 2015 Talent Diversity Initiative that took place in Portland over the last two months. Continue reading... “Oregon Media Production Community Rolls Out Red Carpet, Honors Best Local Performances Of The Year”
Birds of Neptune, an independent film by Steven Richter, will be the Opening Night narrative feature at this year’s Portland Film Festival.
The film host an all Portland based cast, crew, vendors and services. It premiered at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival and has since gone on to win Best Dramatic Feature and Best Performance at the Arizona International Film Festival. It has also played at the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival and will be playing at the AMFM FEST: Flagstaff this August. Continue reading... ““Birds of Neptune” Will Screen Opening Night At The Portland Film Festival”
Portland filmmaker David Poulshock and his production company Red Door Films were recently awarded an astounding nine Telly Awards for TV commercials and web videos they produced on behalf of clients Spirit Mountain Casino and Goodwill Industries of the Columbia-Willamette.
“It’s a real honor,” said Poulshock, “especially for the recognition it gives the wonderful talent and stellar production crews who worked on these projects.” According to Poulshock, the overall production included six :30 spots for Spirit Mountain Casino, and five :30 spots and four 3-minute web documentaries for Goodwill. Continue reading... “Portland Filmmaker Wins 9 National Telly Awards”
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxDnWYxhMlM[/youtube]Congratulations to “Portlandia” and IFC on their two Emmy 2015 nominations. The nominations are:
Outstanding Variety Sketch ( Dead Pets episode)
Tyler Robinson, Production Designer
Schuyler Telleen, Art Director
Katherine Isom, Set Decorator
and
Outstanding Production Design for Variety, Non-Fiction, Reality or reality-Competition Programming.
“We could not be prouder of the Portlandia team for their remarkable work this past season,” said Jennifer Caserta, IFC’s president. “We are extremely happy that Academy voters have recognized this unique comedy with multiple nominations for the fifth year in a row, and especially excited to be included in the newly created sketch series category.” Continue reading... “Congratulations to “Portlandia” On Two Emmy Nominations”
OPB was awarded seven Emmy awards from the NW Chapter (covering Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington) of National Academy of the Televisions Arts and Sciences over the week end. Oregon Art Beat, Oregon Field Guide, Oregon Experience, and an OPB documentary co-production. Read more here. Continue reading... “OPB TV Awarded Seven NW Regional Emmys”
“The Film Program and the College of the Arts at Portland State University are pleased to announce the Koerner Camera Film Scholarship, the inaugural film scholarship in the School of Theater + Film. This scholarship will provide access to high quality film education and pre-professional training for two undergraduate film students with a course of study emphasizing 
cinematography. Two $5,000 scholarships will be awarded each year for five years.
Michael Koerner is the founder of Koerner Camera Systems Inc., the largest motion picture camera rental house north of Los Angeles. Continue reading... “Koerner Camera Awards Inaugural Film Scholarships To Two PSU Students”