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Mercer/Lunden Films is the collaboration of Ben Mercer and Josh Lunden, two recent Oregon transplants who moved to Portland to experience the burgeoning indie film community. Since we had no local reputation or financial backing when we arrived, we decided to test crowd-funding models to raise money for two short films. We successfully raised over $2,000 and went into production with local actors and crew. We also began working with several community groups such as the PDX Film Collective. Along with the films, we’ve also produced a number of behind-the-scenes and technical videos to help illustrate the process of making short films on a limited budget. Continue reading... “Mercer/Lunden Films: Portland Purveyors of Short Subject Cinema.”
Want to know what Investors are looking for? Where in the World do we find Feature Distribution? The latest on Digital Distribution? The most effective types of Marketing?
Get the inside scoop on the indie film industry from a leading Hollywood executive and more than a dozen local experts when the 2012 NW Film Finance Symposium convenes on Friday, March 9, and Saturday, March 10. Presented by OMPA and POWFest, this year’s event will feature Stephanie Slack, Senior Vice President, Co-Productions & Acquisitions for MarVista Entertainment in Los Angeles. Continue reading... “Northwest Film Finance Symposium”
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Written and Directed By Todd E. Freeman
Produced By The Bros. Freeman and Lara Cuddy
Executive Producers: Roger and Jen Wood
Release Date: 2012
Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror
Studio: Polluted Pictures in association with Wooden Frame Productions
Description: Feature film currently in Post Production.
Plot Outline: Russell Carpenter reluctantly admits his wife Sadie into an experimental treatment facility for her life threatening disease. While locked in this prison like surrounding they, along with 6 others, are unknowingly subjected to a cure that might just be worse than the disease itself. Continue reading... “Official Trailer to the Feature Film “Cell Count.””
Last year the TV show Portlandia drew attention to some of the qualities that make our city unique. Maybe for some of you those skits and characters paled in comparison to your own experiences living in Portland. Alongside the second season of Portlandia, the Hollywood Theatre, in patnership with PSU’s MFA in Art and Social Practice program will host the first ever “People’s Portlandia,” a collection of Portlandia inspired skits made by Portland residents.
Entries will be accepted through www.peoplesportlandia.com beginning in early December. Continue reading... “DIY Spirit Shines with People’s Portlandia”
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Local film maker Weston Currie’s film “The Perception of Moving Targets” will screen at the Sundance Film Festival as a part of the New Frontier series. Here’s a link to more info on the film via the Sundance Website. The festival has featured quite a few films from Oregon in past years including last year’s award winning documentary “How to Die in Oregon”. According to Weston’s bio on the Sundance site this is his first feature after several short form films. Continue reading... “Oregon Film “The Perception of Moving Targets” Selected to Screen at Sundance”
Photo of Aris Juson by Levy Moroshan Photography
Do you have a reel? Head shot? Website? I’m sure if you are, or want to be, a professional actor or model you’ve been asked these questions by filmmakers, casting directors, and agents. Sometimes the answer can be long with explanations. Other times you have everything you need but have a hard time getting them all tightly bundled for easy consumption.
So you might ask be asking yourself… “What is that strange looking black box on the picture above?” Continue reading... “An New Way For Actors and Models To Promote Themselves.”
Colour Box Makeup Studios founder Kerry Herta, a 2011 Emmy nominee, returns to the Northwest to teach three workshops geared toward makeup artists seeking expanded knowledge of techniques used on film/TV productions. The following workshops are enrolling now:
Advanced Hairstyling for Film/Fashion
Jan. 27-28–Seattle
Makeup Artist Boot Camp
Feb. 24-27–Portland
Airbrush Makeup Seminar
Feb. 28–Portland
Visit http://www.colourboxmakeup.com for more information. To enroll: 310.360.3992 or [email protected]. Continue reading... “Colour Box Makeup Studios Announces New Film/TV Workshops”
Make it sad. Make it funny. Make it terrifying. Make it in 40 seconds.
To celebrate the Film Center’s 40th anniversary, we invite Northwest filmmakers to enter the MAKE IT SHORT film contest. No matter what genre or format—narrative, documentary, experimental, animation, 16mm, camera phone, DSLR—we want to see it, but keep it short: 40 seconds or less.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 6, 2012 (postmarked)
http://bit.ly/sCyXvV Continue reading... “Make it Short – 40th Anniversary Contest”
A dead world, a woman surviving alone, and the coffin she brings back every evening to her home.
These are the elements that make up Population: 2, an all-Oregon project that filmed in 2010 and is screening December 8th, 2011, at the Bagdad theater. The information for getting free tickets to the event is in a recent Confluence blog post, but unfortunately the post was a little garbled due to a browser incompatibility. For that reason, I’ll be reposting the information here. Continue reading... “A Little More About “Population: 2””
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I am very excited to extend a special invitation to the private, one time screening of the feature film, “Population: 2”. The screening will take place on Thursday, December 8th, 7:30p.m. (theater doors open at 6pm) at the Baghdad Theater in Portland Oregon. I was a writer and producer on the film, and had the incredible opportunity to collaborate with Kenneth Luba of golightlyfilms as Director of Photography and Gil Luna of Moon Tribe Studios as writer/director.
Tickets to the event are FREE.
Continue reading... “Moon Tribe Studios Invites You to a One-time Screening of “Population: 2””
Get the inside scoop on the indie film industry from a leading Hollywood executive and more than a dozen local experts when the 2012 NW Film Finance Symposium convenes on Friday, March 9, and Saturday, March 10. Presented by 
