This Sunday, May 27, the Dill Pickle Club hosts the third in its ongoing A Place Called Home lecture series on filmmaking in the City of Portland at the Clinton Street Theater. The program will feature talks and short films by three titans in the Portland film community: JIM BLASHFIELD (maker of videos for Michael Jackson and the Talking Heads — no joke!), BROOKE JACOBSON (Co-Founder of the NW Film Center, Portland State University professor) and MATT McCORMICK (you’d be hard-pressed to find another filmmaker whose films are so distinctly Northwest, or who has done as much to nurture the work of local makers). Continue reading... “2 for 1 tickets to experimental film lecture — this sunday!”
Candidates Agree: Media Production in Portland is a Pillar of our Economy
See video of all the candidate statements at www.ompa.org/government-affairs
Portland – On Thursday, April 5th, the three major candidates for Mayor of Portland faced off in a forum focusing on media production issues at KGW studios. Sponsored by the Oregon Media Production Association and Portland Monthly Magazine, and other media organizations, the forum covered a range of issues concerning Portland’s quickly growing industry of creative media professionals. Continue reading... “Portland Mayoral Candidates Compete to be Most Film Friendly”
This coming Sunday, April 29th, the Dill Pickle Club hosts the second installment of A Place Called Home: Lectures on Filmmaking in Portland, a monthly lecture series focused on the history of movie-making in the city, at the Hollywood Theater with guest animators Rose Bond, Joan Gratz and Joanna Priestley. Check out this new short video “Two Minutes with Dennis Nyback,” and hear Dennis talk a bit about the history of animation in Portland, as he previews the lecture.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/40969366[/vimeo] Continue reading... “Learn About Animation in PDX from 3 of City’s Best”
SourceOregon 2012 is here!
The long awaited 2012 version of the SourceOregon industry directory is here, and we want you to celebrate with us! Three SourceOregon Directory Release Parties are scheduled throughout the state:
Fri, Apr 27, 4-7pm at Koerner Camera Systems in Portland
Wed, May 2, 7pm at 4 Daughters Irish Pub in Medford
Thu, May 3, 6:30pm at Roaring Rapids Pizza in Eugene
There are 1,500 crew and professional services included in this year’s directory, reflecting Oregon’s growing resources to serve the commercial, film, television and interactive media production industry. Continue reading... “Join Us for a “SourceOregon Directory Release Party””
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Based on the New York Times’ bestseller by Donald Miller, “Blue Like Jazz” tells the story of a nineteen-year-old sophomore who “tries to escape his Bible Belt upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at the most godless campus in America”. A passion project from the start, filmmakers Donald Miller, (screenwriter) and Steve Taylor (director/screenwriter) used KickStarter to raise $345,992 to get the project off the ground. Continue reading... “Blue Like Jazz Is Playing In A Theater Near You”
Oregonians! Enter to win a full size Cell Count poster from The Dude Designs.
As a thank you to the state we love and the people we love making movies with we are giving away 10 full size 27×40 posters for our feature film Cell Count.
Click HERE to enter the Contest on Facebook! Continue reading... “Cell Count Poster Giveaway.”
SHIVER, produced by Bandersnatch FilmCo in association with Cyclone Productions, Inc. on location in Portland, Or will have its South America Premiere at the 2012 Fantaspoa International Film Festival in Porto Alegre, Brasil.
Producer and screenplay author, Robert D. Weinbach and Portland Co-Producer,
A.J. Gordon, produced SHIVER under the Oregon Film Incentive program.
CELL COUNT, another Portland production, produced under the state incentive program has also been selected as the closing night film of the Fantaspoa Film Fest. Continue reading... ““Shiver”, Another Oregon Film Production To Premiere at FANTASPOA Film Festival”
If you haven’t visited the Oregon Film website in a while, you should stop by and check out some of the new content and features we’ve added. In addition to the newly refreshed “Roads of Oregon” section that we wrote about in an earlier post, we have added two new sections featuring current buzz about the Oregon film/media industry from around the net. These sections are dynamically updated as new content becomes available through a partnership with Oregon based Postano. Continue reading... “Oregon Film Website Update Features Current Film “Buzz””
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Poster from The Dude Designs released for the feature film, The Weather Outside.
PORTLAND, Oregon (April 03, 2012) With the feature film “The Weather Outside” getting ready to go to markets around the world in the upcoming months it is Polluted Pictures and Wooden Frame Production’s profound pleasure to present the Official Trailer and Poster for the upcoming romantic and darkly comedic film noir, The Weather Outside. Continue reading... “New poster and trailer released for The Weather Outside.”
The process that delivers the furniture into our homes is often as grim as the process that delivers the food onto our plates. Aerial vistas of butchered landscapes look like ecological crime scenes, the brown swathes of mowed hillsides replacing the chalk outlines. The murder weapons drip with water instead of blood, freshly bathed for the next sanctioned slaughter. The morbid din of strained cedars slit at their mammoth bases, tipping over, their broad tops exploding on impact could just as easily have been confused with an animal’s death throes. Continue reading... “Essential NW Film: That Blade Just Don’t Stop”
ourceOregon 2012 is here! 
Oregonians! Enter to win a full size Cell Count poster from The Dude Designs.
SHIVER, produced by Bandersnatch FilmCo in association with Cyclone Productions, Inc. on location in Portland, Or will have its South America Premiere at the 2012 Fantaspoa International Film Festival in Porto Alegre, Brasil.
If you haven’t visited the 
The process that delivers the furniture into our homes is often as grim as the process that delivers the food onto our plates. Aerial vistas of butchered landscapes look like ecological crime scenes, the brown swathes of mowed hillsides replacing the chalk outlines. The murder weapons drip with water instead of blood, freshly bathed for the next sanctioned slaughter. The morbid din of strained cedars slit at their mammoth bases, tipping over, their broad tops exploding on impact could just as easily have been confused with an animal’s death throes.