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”
Fantastic news coming out of Georgia today. The Peabody Awards were announced today and “Portlandia” is one of the recipients. The George Foster Peabody award without question stands out as one of the most prestigous awards that can be given to any radio or television program.
Congratulations to Fred, Carrie, Broadway Video, IFC, and the entire cast and crew who are responsible for making this small show so special. Now let’s all hope that the next award the show gets nominated for is an Emmy! Continue reading... ““Portlandia” wins a Peabody Award”
This Thursday at 6:30 pm at KGW (1501 SW Jefferson St in Portland): A forum with candidates for Portland Mayor that is *by* and *for* commercial, film, TV and interactive workers! Eileen Brady, Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith discuss how they will foster local film, television, interactive, commercial, and mobile media ventures as Portland’s next Mayor.
Industry members — including crew, actors, producers, vendors, and post production shops — are encouraged to come and show support for our creative community, while getting to know more about the candidates to be the next mayor of Portland! Continue reading... “Portland Mayoral Forum on Creative Economy is this Thursday”
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.”
Continue reading... “PDX/MV: A Night of Portland Music Videos April 9th!”
Emmy Winning Hairstylist Joe Matke (All My Children, 90210) will teach makeup artists and other beginner- and intermediate-level stylists the basics of film/TV hair design when Colour Box Makeup Studios returns to Portland for a two day workshop, June 9-10.
The class, titled Hairstyling for Makeup Artists, is designed to broaden working makeup artists’ hairstyling skills. It will allow them to offer potential employers a more complete package as they improve their own hair skills and gain a better understanding of working with other hairstylists on productions. Continue reading... “Emmy Winner Leads Film/TV Hair Workshop in Portland”
March 30 was the first night of taping for “Wheel of Fortune” in Portland. KATU did a feature on the show on their 11:00 news. Here’s the link to the feature.
After seeing the video I am somewhat surprised to see the size of the production. Now I know why only two venues in Portland could hold the show. Don’t forget that the shows will air in May! Continue reading... “KATU Piece on the “Wheel Of Fortune” Production”
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”
We have already blogged about the Wheel of Fortune shooting a week’s worth of shows this week end and early next in Portland for their up-coming “green week” but I also wanted to take the opportunity to give a shout out to Sony Pictures Entertainment and their sustainability efforts.
Like other studios, Sony Pictures has in place it’s best practices and green policies; such as their “Road to Zero” (zero waste) and “A Greener World” vision, on set, in studio offices, stages and across all corporate operations. Continue reading... “At Sony Pictures “A Greener World” even The Wheel Is Green…..”