“A Haunting At Silver Falls 2” at Linfield College (photo: Brian McElroy)
Brian McElroy has been working in location management for over two decades and has had an interesting career path that ultimately led him to Oregon. We caught up with him after he had finished working on “Woodstock or Bust” – an indy film written and directed by Leslie Bloom, a Lake Oswego native.
The Menucha Retreat and Conference Center is a non-profit organization which hosts adult retreats, workshops, and conferences. It is located approximately 20 miles outside Portland, Oregon in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge. This particular workshop will be an intense one-week course in TV/film production. We are looking for professionals who have TV/film credits in their particular field of expertise. We currently have an instructor for directing TV/film, and a writing instructor, and are looking for an acting instructor, a DP to teach TV/film camerawork, and an editing instructor. Continue reading... “Film Workshop Seeking Teachers”
A group of friends, a mudslide, and a tainted bowl of chili. What could possibly go wrong? Find out this Friday at 6:30pm when Brown’s Canyon, the new indie drama from director John Helde, makes its world premiere at the 2017 Portland Film Festival.More information, trailer, and advance tickets available.
This week’s Hooray for Horregon RotLA edition comes with two truly great ingredients: Debbie Reynolds and St. Helens. If you haven’t seen HBO’s Emmy nominated “Bright Lights” (full disclosure, it was produced and directed by friend, former business partner and Astoria-filmed “Short Circuit” actor Fisher Stevens and his life-partner baby[ies]-mama Lexy Bloom), and, if you haven’t visited St. Helens (at Halloween or, as a seasonal alternative, by boat to the town dock in August for a riverside lunch and a beer), you need to do both.Continue reading... “RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHIVE: Halloweentown (Duwayne Dunham 1998)”
On the program are almost thirty feature films, including a retrospective dedicated
to the Japanese filmmaker Hideo Nakata, a master in the horror genre, from his classics Ring, Ring 2 and Dark Water to his recent productions, Monsterz, Ghost Theater, and White Lily.
Other Japanese films include the unconventional road movie Bangkok Nites, the intense drama Over the Fence directed by Nobuhiro Yashamita, and the grotesque thriller Museum, directed by Keishi Otomo. Continue reading... “Portland Asian Film Festival Coming Soon…”
This week’s Horrregon Edition of our Raiders of the Lost Archive series rightly celebrates an icon of Oregon’s rich cartoon and comic history: Dark Horse Comics and Mike Richardson. It’s easy to argue that Mike is one of, if not the most successful and lucrative film producers here in the state, and we’re proud of that. Our RotLA post this week takes us back to the very first film Mike produced which twists the proverbial knife into many iconic Portland locations in a fun, unique and ultimately horrific fashion (and you may never look at Franklin High in the same way again). Continue reading... “RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHIVE : Dr. Giggles (Manny Coto, 1992)”
“Who Killed Jim Thompson The Thai Silk King” premieres at LCC, Friday, October 20th, 7:00 PM, Ragozzino Performance Hall. Paris based Director Neil Hollander will be present as will Seattle based Producer Barry Broman. Be sure to read the BBC and Newsweek stories linked below.
Continuing on under the sub-heading “Hooray for Horregon,” our intrepid Raider/Contributor leads us up to the top of the SW Hills over Portland to celebrate an #OregonMade Filmmaker who the Willamette Week called “Portland’s most important forgotten filmmaker:” Don Gonquist.
The trailer pretty much sets the tone from there. “It began as an idyllic outing….”
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