Riverfolk! Cinema lovers! Don’t miss this epic film showing the awesome grandeur of Oregon on the silver screen! Bend Of The River, starring Jimmy Stewart, is one film every Oregonian (and transplants) should see at least once.
Get on your western duds and join the Human Access Project for this vintage classic shot in Oregon – with the best scenes of Mt. Hood, area rivers, and “Portland” ever put on film. Released in 1952, it’s a rip-roaring western – with danger, reward, romance, and “viewpoints” seen through the eyes of settlers on an Oregon Trail wagon train. Continue reading... ““Bend of the River” – A Fundraiser for the Human Access Project”
The #OregonMade Creative Foundation and Comcast are proud to be supporters of Lower Boom’s Diversity and Inclusion Writing Initiative. This project is focused on giving diverse and historically disenfranchised writers an opportunity to write for TV. Currently, six writers are gathering on a weekly basis to work on the pilot and series script for an original, home grown prestige drama, Portland Dark.
On October 20th, Lower Boom held a gathering looking to raise both awareness and funding in support of Lower Boom’s Diversity and Inclusive Initiative. Continue reading... “Portland Dark: The Writer’s Speak!”
Oregon Media Production Association (OMPA) is holding a fall membership drive leading up to the deadline for the 2019 SourceOregon production directory on November 15. The goal is to reach 1,000 members! Will you be one of them?
The media production industry is thriving now and we want it to stay that way. Keep the work coming by supporting a nonprofit that works day in and day out to strengthen your industry.
A strong collective voice matters. Your membership matters. Sign up now at bitly.com/OMPA1000 Continue reading... “Help OMPA Become 1,000 Voices Strong”
On September 18, 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Allison (Solberg) Buckmelter, a Portland native, and her husband Nicolas Buckmelter, won the prestigious 2018 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship award.
Three individuals and one writing team have been named winners of the 2018 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read at Beverly Hills’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Thursday, November 8. Continue reading... “Portland Native Screenwriter Wins 2018 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship”
November 2, 2018. 10AM to 3PM. Northwest Film Center. $20-$60.
Visit https://nwfilm.org/classes/a-tale-in-two-minutes-how-to-pitch-your-film-idea/
Pitching is part writing, part strategy, part performance … but above all, it’s storytelling. So your pitch simply boils down to telling a good tale, right? If only it were so easy. Whether you’re proposing a feature, documentary, commercial or other creative project, you need an engaging, suspenseful and tight pitch of 60-120 seconds at the ready. Like filmmaking, pitching involves knowing your audience (prospective buyer), but it also involves a whole lot more. Continue reading... “Workshop: A Tale In Two Minutes—How To Pitch Your Film Idea”
We’re kicking off the Klamath Independent Film Festival with an OMPA Media Mixer for our friends in Southern Oregon. Meet us a couple blocks from the KIFF opening gala for a drink and a bite – plus a chance to win a fabulous prize package!
How fabulous, you ask? We’re giving away:
- an OMPA membership
- a bottle of Oregon wine
- 2 (two) travel tumblers
- 1 (one) all-access pass to KIFF
This Friday, September 14 from 5-7pm at Klamath Basin Brewing. Continue reading... “OMPA Media Mixer: Southern Oregon”
The Oregon State University International Film Festival Presents:
A Screening of Mademoiselle Paradis
September 24th, at 7pm
Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave, Portland
Join Oregon State University at Cinema 21 in celebrating the first event of the International Film Festival, organized and hosted by the School of Language, Culture, and Society in partnership with the School of Writing, Literature, and Film. Since 2009, the festival has showcased different perspectives in contemporary film making every year.
BASED ON A TRUE STORY: Vienna, 1777. Continue reading... “Oregon State University International Film Festival”
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This week the Willamette Week did a great job of covering the inaugural Portland Circuit.
The Portland Circuit, a collaboration between the #OregonMade Creative Foundation, the Northwest Film Center, the Hollywood Theatre, the Clinton St. Theater, and Cinema 21, has been created to provide a local theatrical run for #OregonMade feature films. This initial pilot program will select feature-length films and allow them to have a paying audience screening in four of the most dynamically programmed independent theaters in Portland. Continue reading... ““The Portland Circuit’s” Inaugural Season Is Underway”
Support an industry and get a tax break!
Did you know that the film, television, animation and interactive industry is now directly spending more than $200M and supporting more than 4000 jobs per year?
And all of this work is supported through the Oregon Production Investment Fund and that fund is dependent on the sale of tax credit, via online auction, to Oregon resident and corporate tax payers.
So, we wanted to make sure that you are aware of the second OPIF tax credit auction now set to open at 9a on Monday, September 24, 2018 and run until 5p on Friday, September 28, 2018.
Continue reading... “Tax Credit Auction for the Oregon Production Investment Fund (OPIF), Second Round”
Being part of the PDX Latinx Pride planning and organizing committee has satisfied many parts of us, the members. The group wants to build community and heal ourselves through workshops, retreats and conversations. We also seek to see ourselves in many parts of the artistic spectrum. In fact, creating safe spaces and diversifying art in many mediums has been a goal for many of us. The majority of the committee is made up of multi-media artists. We are made up of musicians, performers, writers, designers, directors, as well as the ever creative parts of our organizing that may appear not to be, like finances, outreach and moderating. Continue reading... “PDX Latinx Pride Presents: Noche de Película (September 16th, 2018)”
Oregon Media Production Association (OMPA) is holding a fall membership drive leading up to the deadline for the 2019 SourceOregon production directory on November 15. The goal is to reach 1,000 members! Will you be one of them?
Three individuals and one writing team have been named winners of the 2018 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read at Beverly Hills’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Thursday, November 8. 
Being part of the PDX Latinx Pride planning and organizing committee has satisfied many parts of us, the members. The group wants to build community and heal ourselves through workshops, retreats and conversations. We also seek to see ourselves in many parts of the artistic spectrum. In fact, creating safe spaces and diversifying art in many mediums has been a goal for many of us. The majority of the committee is made up of multi-media artists. We are made up of musicians, performers, writers, designers, directors, as well as the ever creative parts of our organizing that may appear not to be, like finances, outreach and moderating.