Beth Harrington Productions & Argot Pictures Announce the Theatrical Release of The Winding Stream
Argot Pictures and Indie filmmaker Beth Harrington are pleased to announce that her latest music documentary film, The Winding Stream – The Carters, The Cashes and the Course of Country Music, will begin its theatrical release in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, September 17th at the historic Hollywood Theatre. The screening will include a Q&A with director/producer Beth Harrington and a special pre-show performance by the Johnny Cash tribute band—Counterfeit Cash.Continue reading... “Theatrical Premiere of “The Winding Stream” Screens September 17”
Tim Oakley, Oakley Design Studios (photo: Hal Harrison, AboutFace Magazine)
Local Portland Prop Master, Tim Oakley, gets a well-deserved spread in AboutFace Magazine’s summer issue as a featured artist this month. Oakley (Oakley Design Studios) designs and creates intricate props, logos and set designs for features, TV and commercials. Most recently Oakley has created some of the iconic props for local Oregon shows such as “Grimm”, “The Librarians”, “The Green Room”, and others such as “”Dark Knight Rises”, “Start Trek” (1 and 2), “Indiana Jones” and “Jurassic World”, amongst many others. Continue reading... “Local Prop Master, Tim Oakley, Featured Artist In AboutFace Magazine”
A24 has picked up the US rights to “Green Room” before it premieres (N. American) at the Toronto Film Festival this September.
“Green Room” was shot and produced in Oregon, and is the latest thriller Jeremy Saulnier (“Blue Ruin”) and produced by Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani and Victor Moyers, and starring Patrick Stewart and Anton Yelchin. It’s set to have it’s theatrical release spring 2016. It was also part of this year’s Cannes Director’s Fortnight .
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”
Senator Ron Wyden prepared a statement for the Congressional Record to mark the 30th anniversary of “The Goonies”, shot in Astoria, Oregon. Sen. Wyden noted the growth of the Oregon film industry and the “good-paying jobs and tourism that in turn support local businesses and economic development across the State”. Read the whole statement here.
The Hollywood Theatre’s Movies for Grownups series, sponsored by AARP Oregon, presents the documentary ON PAPER WINGS, screening on Saturday, May 30 at 2:30pm! Advance tickets are available here.
In the spring of 1945, a Japanese balloon bomb claimed the lives of the only people killed in the continental United States as a result of enemy action during World War II. Forty years later, the decision to fold a thousand paper cranes would unite the Japanese and American civilians who were involved in and affected by this incident. Continue reading... ““On Paper Wings” With Director Ilana Sol & Oregon Historical Society”
The Northwest Film Center presents: Essential Gus Van Sant (& His Influences) film series & class
Film dates: April 23-June 5, 2015
Class dates: April 25-June 20Over the last three decades, Gus Van Sant has created an extraordinary body of film work. His first long-form films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, known as the “Portland Trilogy”, feature rebellious characters on the fringes of mainstream society who yearned to form new communities. The films became instant cult classics, earning Van Sant acknowledgment as one of the most talented and imaginative filmmakers of the indie film renaissance. Continue reading... “The Northwest Film Center Presents: Essential Gus Van Sant (and His Influences)”
July 1st will mark the beginning of a new fiscal year and a new round of funding for our film incentive programs. As a result, we are preparing to open up the application process for our “local filmmaker” program, commonly referred to as the Indigenous Oregon Production Investment Fund (iOPIF).
THE PENDLETON REAL WEST FESTIVAL HITS TOWN APRIL 16-18
The Pendleton Real West Festival, a new film event in Eastern Oregon, barrels into town April 16-18 with a lineup of classic Westerns, Native American cinema and cutting edge work by Northwest filmmakers.
The Festival opens Thursday, April 16 with THE WINDING STREAM: THE STORY OF THE CARTERS, THE CASH’S AND THE COURSE OF COUNTRY MUSIC. The film is labor of love from Vancouver, Washington filmmaker Beth Harrington that digs deep into the story of the roots of country music with exceptional archival footage and one of the very last interviews with Johnny Cash. Continue reading... “The Pendleton Real West Festival: a New Film Event in Eastern Oregon”
Nancy Haecker, Location Manager “Wild” (photo: Variety, Fox Searchlight)
Congratulations to Nancy Haecker (“Wild“), who, at the second annual Location Managers Guild of America Awards, won for “Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Film”. The awards took place at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on Saturday night.
According to Variety, Haecker read Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, “Wild”, during a flight, and was so enthused that she wanted to scout the film project. Even though most of the film plays for California, around 60 locations in Oregon were scouted by Haecker; from the high desert in central Oregon, the city of Ashland, Crater Lake, the Portland metro area, to the Bridge of the Gods in the Columbia River Valley Gorge. Continue reading... ““Wild” Locations Get Recognition At LMGA Awards”
Beth Harrington Productions & Argot Pictures Announce the Theatrical Release of The Winding Stream 
A24 has picked up the US rights to “Green Room” before it premieres (N. American) at the 
The Pendleton Real West Festival, a new film event in Eastern Oregon, barrels into town April 16-18 with a lineup of classic Westerns, Native American cinema and cutting edge work by Northwest filmmakers.