#OregonMade “Finding Groovopolis” is being released nationally via Freestyle Digital Media. To mark the occasion, the jacket filmmaker Wil Kristin’s dad wore in both The Terminator and Finding Groovopolis is up on long-term display at Portland’s iconic Movie Madness, timed with the screening at the inaugural Portland Panorama Film Festival.
In the documentary Finding Groovopolis filmmaker Wil Kristin seeks fatherly advice through the lens of Groovopolis, a never-produced comedic screenplay written by his late father. While coming to terms with his dad’s death, Kristin discovered the original script for Groovopolis, which follows a music programmer who falls overboard at a work party, encounters a group of wild, dancing island inhabitants, and inadvertently records their music before being rescued and spreading the sounds as an antidote to dull and monotonous consumer culture. Continue reading... “#OregonMade “Finding Groovopolis” to be Released on April 22”
Oregon has been Hollywood’s backlot when it comes to movies and television projects. That includes Central Oregon — “Rooster Cogburn,” “The Postman and “Wild,” to name a few. Central Oregon Daily‘s “Destination Oregon” took a trip on the Oregon Film Trail. Visiting sites where movies and television shows were filmed is a huge tourism industry called Set Jetting.
“Right now, we believe it’s about $151 million a year that’s coming into Oregon through film set jetting,” said Tim Williams, the executive director of the Oregon Film Office. Continue reading... “Destination Oregon: The Oregon Film Trail”
The Oregon Film Impact Grants are designed to support filmmakers and projects that have the potential to make a positive and lasting impact on Oregon’s film industry.
There will be two submission phases for these grants. The first will be for short film projects (running time less than 40 mins) while the second will be for feature length projects. The first phase, short films, will open on April 16. The feature length project submission period will be later in the summer of 2025. Continue reading... “Oregon Film Impact Grants for Short Films”
Longtime Portland-based filmmaker and playwright Anthony Orkin (HELLO FROM NOWHERE) will be sharing his latest work of musical theatre in April at Fertile Ground festival of new works.
The Poison Squad is a musical comedy based on a true story, about men used as guinea pigs in a quasi-experiment on the effects of untested preservatives on the human body. In the early 1900’s, Dr. Harvey Wiley, head chemist at the Department of Agriculture, wanted to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act, and he needed some colorful evidence to persuade Congress. Continue reading... “Director Anthony Orkin shares latest work at Fertile Ground”
Willamette Week’s Jay Horton interviewed the filmmakers of the upcoming #OregonMade comedy “Raging Midlife.”
Nic Costa and Rob Taylor, stars and the respective producer and director of upcoming Portland-made nostalgia fest Raging Midlife, have over the span of three films shown a certain facility for wringing laughs from genre pastiche and absolute genius for luring familiar faces to their elongated productions.
Raging Midlife’s premiere at the Austin Film Festival in October won rave reviews and heightened expectations for its release. Continue reading... “#OregonMade “Raging Midlife” Releases in March”
Come join the OMPA for their first virtual event of the year – this is a unique opportunity for creatives of all backgrounds to engage with a local filmmaker, ask questions about the film and the industry, and gain insights into storytelling and production.
Be sure to RSVP to join us for all the fun! Can’t wait to see you there!
COCO PRESENTS:
#OregonMade “BUFFALO SOLDIERS” (Dir: Dru Holley)
VIRTUAL VIEWING & DISCUSSION PARTY
March 20, 2025
Zoom link will be shared with participants ahead of the event. Continue reading... ““Buffalo Soldiers” Virtual Viewing & Discussion Party”
The #OregonMade feature film “Nora” premieres at Cinequest on March 15th and 18th.
Having given up on her career, Nora returns to her hometown to focus on her precocious six year old, a new house, a new school year, and the place she deliberately left behind. Her dreams and ambitions, however, have different plans.
First time feature filmmaker Anna Campbell brings a joyful, unflinching look at modern motherhood clashing with the artist notion of pursuing your passion. This uniquely structured film with a completely original soundtrack uses the emotional bombshell that music provides to create a music movie for the MTV generation. Continue reading... “#OregonMade “Nora” to Screen at Cinequest”
“Trash Baby” marks a few firsts. It’s the directorial debut of an Oregon filmmaker and it’s the acting debut for a Portland high schooler.
Now, the film is set for its world premiere at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.
“’Trash Baby’ is very loosely inspired by my own childhood, and it has a lot of reoccurring themes that I think happened for everyone at that age around forcefully wanting to be older than you are, and then kind of the reality of what that actually looks like when you start embracing some of the adult themes that come into play,” director Jacy Mairs told KOIN 6 News. Continue reading... “KOIN Talks to Jacy Mairs about SXSW & “Trash Baby””
Screening on March 20, 2025 at 730p at the Hollywood Theatre.
Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the all-time-classic #OregonMade film ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST. Winner of 5 Oscars and shot at the Oregon State Hospital with a full cast field trip to nearby Depoe Bay, the film version of Ken Kesey’s novel will be shown on a 35mm print. The screening will be a benefit for the Museum of Mental Health now housed in the State Hospital in Salem. Continue reading... “Celebrate 50th Anniversary of #OregonMade “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest””
The locally produced feature film “Trash Baby” will make its world premiere at the SXSW film festival in Austin, TX later this year. Written and directed by Jacy Mairs ”Trash Baby” is an indie drama that celebrates the kids who grew up amidst white trash culture in the early 2000’s. Bold, cinematic, and rooted in authenticity, this film is a love letter to the beauty of one of America’s most dismissed communities, and an honest look at those society openly calls trash. Continue reading... “#OregonMade “Trash Baby” to Premiere at SXSW”
Oregon has been Hollywood’s backlot when it comes to movies and television projects. That includes Central Oregon — “Rooster Cogburn,” “The Postman and “Wild,” to name a few. 
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Willamette Week’s Jay Horton 
Come join the OMPA for their first virtual event of the year – this is a unique opportunity for creatives of all backgrounds to engage with a local filmmaker, ask questions about the film and the industry, and gain insights into storytelling and production.
The #OregonMade feature film “Nora” premieres at Cinequest on March 15th and 18th.
“Trash Baby” marks a few firsts. It’s the directorial debut of an Oregon filmmaker and it’s the acting debut for a Portland high schooler.
Screening on March 20, 2025 at 730p at the Hollywood Theatre.
The locally produced feature film “Trash Baby” will make its world premiere at the SXSW film festival in Austin, TX later this year. Written and directed by Jacy Mairs ”Trash Baby” is an indie drama that celebrates the kids who grew up amidst white trash culture in the early 2000’s. Bold, cinematic, and rooted in authenticity, this film is a love letter to the beauty of one of America’s most dismissed communities, and an honest look at those society openly calls trash.