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Today in Salem the long running ABC show “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” showed up at the Oregon School for the Deaf. This season the show is focusing on community projects and they picked the school this year for their Halloween episode as they will be remaking the school’s dorm and a new haunted house. Construction on the project began today and the project is slated to be completed by next Sunday. All of the students from the school are traveling to Minnesota to visit the Starkey Hearing Foundation.Continue reading... “Extreme Makeover shows up in Salem, OR to help School for the Deaf”
I was sent this blog posting from Jennifer Yocom today and I have to give the city of Portland some props. Not because Jennifer mentioned my name but because she crystalized the argument for supporting the film and video industry. Thanks Jennifer and thank you to the city of Portland and the Portland Development Commission for all your help over the years.
Oregon’s film industry got quite the write-up yesterday in the Hollywood Reporter! The producers of TNT’s Leveragehad wonderful things to say about shooting in Oregon, including this quote about Oregon’s talent from Co-Creator Jon Rogers:
“When we got up there we were expecting to fly in three or four cast members an episode, but we average about one or two,” co-creator/executive producer John Rogers says. “Some of the (local) actors have been so good, we’ve made them recurring characters on the show.”
We’re focused on the economic benefit that Oregon’s Film and TV Industry brings to the state. In an era of unprecedented economic woes for the Beaver State, Oregon’s film industry is growing – hiring thousands of workers state-wide and pumping millions of much-needed dollars into our economy…
*Note: This is an opinion piece written by Portland-area actor Harold Phillips and originally posted on his blog at http://trishandharold.blogspot.com. The views expressed here are his own, and are not necessarily the views of the administrators of the Oregon Confluence blog.
Well, someone out there gets it! Take a look at what showed up in my change yesterday when I bought a Viso at my corner mini-mart!
Last week I made the trip down to Los Angeles to take a few meetings, get some industry intelligence, and hopefully drum up some business for Oregon. I wanted to fill everyone in on my trip. Continue reading... “News from Los Angeles”
Chambers Productions is looking for someone with 5+ years experience. Position will primarily focus on commercial, agency and corporate video projects with occasional opportunity to work on feature film projects.
Position requires experience producing / directing single and multi-camera, studio and field productions, using video equipment, editing software, lighting and audio gear. Continue reading... “Job Posting – FT Producer/Director”
