The Portland Film Office, in partnership with the #OregonMade Creative Foundation, has announced the recipients of its second Portland Post Production Grant Program. Selected from a pool of twenty-seven applicants, four local filmmakers will receive $5,000 for their respective projects.
The grant program is intended to support the professional development of local Portland filmmakers by providing funds for such activities as sound, picture editing, color matching, color grading, closed caption, tech specs for distributors, and music clearances using local post-production houses. Continue reading... “Four local film projects win 2019 Portland Post Production Grants”
In modern cinema, visual effects, as they are also called – special effects, are inseparable from almost every new film. They are constantly being improved so much that the viewer will never distinguish computer graphics from reality. With the advent of special effects, the boundaries of directorial imagination and the possibility of realizing it have completely disappeared. The need for complex and expensive decorations gradually disappears, and their place is taken by a powerful computer processor and an animation studio. Continue reading... “Films With Fabulous Visual Effects”
For the second year in a row, The Portland Film Office and Prosper Portland, in partnership with Oregon Made Creative Foundation (OMCF), invites local filmmakers to apply for funding designed to encourage the completion of a local feature-length project and position producers to build towards larger, more resourced productions.
The Post-Production Film Grant Program supports the professional development of small, local filmmakers by providing funds for activities including sound design, scoring, editing, color correction, closed captioning, VFX, and music clearances using local post-production houses. Continue reading... “Get Your Applications Now in for the Portland Post-Production Grant”
The next installment in The Portland Circuit – a unique, local theatrical distribution program presented in conjunction with the Northwest Film Center, The Clinton Street Theatre, Cinema 21 and The Hollywood Theatre – is Tara Johnson-Medinger’s beautiful coming of age story: “My Summer as a Goth.”
My Summer as a Goth is a story about the sometimes painful-often entertaining-search for identity and love in adolescence. After the sudden death of her father, 16-year-old, Joey Javitts is sent to stay with her eccentric grandparents while her author mother promotes her latest novel.
Continue reading... “The Portland Circuit Presents: “My Summer as a Goth” in November”
The day before Halloween brings the next installment of the #OregonMade Film Series at The Hollywood Theatre, and it’s gonna be a good one. Dark Horse Entertainment’s 1992 film: “Dr. Giggles.”
Larry Drake plays the eponymous title character as the crazy son of a crazy heart surgeon who seeks revenge on the small town that killed his dad. Dr. Giggles doesn’t discriminate, and kills teenagers, cops, old lady busybodies, and anyone else who gets in his way.
Holly Marie Combs (CHARMED, PRETTY LITTLE LIARS) stars alongside Portland locations like Franklin High School and Oaks Amusement Park. Continue reading... “#OregonMade “Dr. Giggles” Halloween Screening”
We wanted to share a recent testimonial from Eric Stolberg at Digital One about his experience with the OPIF Tax Credit Auction:
As a small business owner, my email inbox is overflowing by 8am and there is never enough time in my day. So the first time I saw a notice to take part in the tax auction, I rolled my eyes and thought “Taxes? Yuck! Why would I want to read about taxes? Taxes are boring and complicated. I don’t have time for this…” Yet, a couple of months later, Lisa’s post about how simple it was to take part in the auction came through.
Continue reading... “OPIF Tax Credit Auction – Support the Fund That Supports Our Industry”
“Call for Submissions”
The Oregon Coast Film Festival is an exhibition of Oregon films, filmmakers, cinematographers and photographers. Scheduled for January 24-25, 2020 at the Egyptian Theatre in Coos Bay, Oregon.
“Call for Submissions” – July 15, 2019 to December 15, 2019
We screen short films, photography collections, student films and selected feature film(s).
Submissions and guidelines are through FilmFreeway and guidelines are available here.
Considered submissions into the film festival should have a connection to the People, Culture, Environment, Landscape and Artists of Oregon, the Pacific Northwest and the rivers and oceans. Continue reading... “2020 Oregon Coast Film Festival: Call for Submissions”
The #OregonMade feature film that had a very successful run in The Portland Circuit this past May, returns to Portland for an encore screening on Sunday, August 25 at 7pm. You can book your tickets here.
Starring James La Gros, Lisa Edelstein, Jesse Borrego and Kevin Corrigan, “Phoenix, Oregon” is a comedy of midlife reinvention and the redeeming power of friendship.
*** Writer/Director Gary Lundgren and producers Annie Lundgren and Luis Rodriguez will be on-hand for a post screening Q&A***
Defying midlife haze, two friends seize an unlikely opportunity to reinvent their lives, quitting their jobs to restore an old bowling alley and serve the “world’s greatest pizza.” Continue reading... ““Phoenix, Oregon” Returns from a Nationwide Tour to The Hollywood Theatre for One Last Portland Screening”
This year’s PLAYA Screenwriter’s Residency Award has been granted to two projects and three writers – David Poulshock and his project “Captain Jack” and KatMeow García & Rebeca Alamo González for their project “Dance and Resist.” Each project team will receive an up to two week residency at PLAYA Summer Lake and a $1000 stipend to develop their stories and scripts deep within the inspirational Oregon Outback.
This year’s award was open to Oregon Resident filmmakers, screenwriters and other creative teams to develop and write a narrative project with a “historic” theme that is set in the Northwest while the story itself was to focus on people, cultures, traditions, events or communities that are not traditionally covered or heard from. Continue reading... “PLAYA Screenwriter’s Residency Awarded to Two Projects”
OPIF Tax Credit Auction – Sept 30 to Oct 4, 2019
$14M in state tax credits are available.
Dates for the tax credit auction for the Oregon Production Investment Fund have now been set: Monday, September 30 at 9a to Friday, October 4 at 5p. You can sign up for the OPIF Tax Credit Auction Newsletter here.
With SB459 now being signed into law, the minimum bid for each $500 increment in the Oregon Production Investment Fund (“OPIF”) Tax Credit Auction this year is now $450, or 90%. Continue reading... “Annual OPIF Tax Credit Auction Opens Sept. 30”
