Portland’s LOWER BOOM at SXSW 2015

Lower Boom, a new Portland-based micro-budget movie studio and talent incubator, is heading to SXSW to host a filmmakers get-together, this Sunday, March 15th at the Austin Marriott.

Lower Boom will be giving guests a sneak-peek of their inaugural movie, LETTER B, as well as unveiling the prototype of their Discovery app. The app allows users to discover new films, stories and videos in an easy, fun and mobile-friendly way, as well as providing the opportunity and infrastructure to support exciting new storytellers. Continue reading... “Portland’s LOWER BOOM at SXSW 2015”

DisOrient Asian American Film Festival Gets Surprise “Fan Mail” on YouTube

Check out the great testament to the festival from an award winning filmmaker on this video and then make sure you get to Eugene next month to check out the Festival itself which runs at Bijou Art Cinema from April 17 – 19.

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Tom Kane’s Film Production Workshop, April 11 and 12

2015_workshop_PORTLANDOn April 11th and 12th, Tom Kane is bringing a 2-Day Film Production Workshop to Portland, Oregon. Tom has had a long and distinguished career in the Film and Television industry. As a Producer, Production Manager, and Assistant Director, his clients have included Twentieth Century Fox, Miramax Films, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros., ABC Motion Pictures, Universal Pictures, Turner Network Television, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Hallmark Entertainment.

Tom’s Film Credits include: Kramer vs. Kramer, Prizzi’s Honor, Raging Bull, The Flamingo Kid, Taxi Driver, The Stepford Wives, Crossfire Trail, Swimming to Cambodia. Continue reading... “Tom Kane’s Film Production Workshop, April 11 and 12”

“Wild” Locations Get Recognition At LMGA Awards

Nancy Haecker, Location Manager "Wild" (photo: Variety)
Nancy Haecker, Location Manager “Wild” (photo: Variety, Fox Searchlight)

Congratulations to Nancy Haecker  (“Wild“),  who, at the second annual Location Managers Guild of America Awards, won for “Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Film”.  The awards took place at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on Saturday night.

According to Variety, Haecker read Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, “Wild”, during a flight, and was so enthused that she wanted to scout the film project.   Even though most of the film plays for California, around 60 locations in Oregon were scouted by Haecker; from the high desert in central Oregon, the city of Ashland, Crater Lake, the Portland metro area, to the Bridge of the Gods in the Columbia River Valley Gorge.  Continue reading... ““Wild” Locations Get Recognition At LMGA Awards”

Academy Award Winning Documentary “Citizenfour” Added To 2015 POWFest Line-up

1_CITIZENFOURThe Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival is honored to announce the addition of Academy Award winning documenatry CITIZENFOUR to the 2015 festival line-up. Buy Tickets Here. 

CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).

Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name “CITIZENFOUR,” in January 2013.  Continue reading... “Academy Award Winning Documentary “Citizenfour” Added To 2015 POWFest Line-up”

Lindstrom’s “Mothering Inside” – Second Film in Oregon Film[Makers] Screening Series

Photo: Brian Lindstrom
Photo: Brian Lindstrom

Following on from our successful screening of “Wild” at the Salem Cinema last December, we are pleased to be starting a new series of free screenings in Salem made by, or featuring, Oregon filmmakers and subjects which we are calling Oregon Film[Makers].

The next Oregon-made film to be featured, is filmmaker Brian Lindstrom and “Mothering Inside“.  The short documentary will be special screening March 3rd at 7p at the Level B Theater Pub, 445 High St SE, Salem, Oregon.  Continue reading... “Lindstrom’s “Mothering Inside” – Second Film in Oregon Film[Makers] Screening Series”

“Wild” and “The Boxtrolls” At Oscars 2015

Photo appeared on Reese Witherspoon's Facebook page
Photo appeared on Reese Witherspoon’s Facebook page

At Oscars 2015 the 87th Academy Awards Witherspoon was nominated for Best Actress in “Wild”, and Dern for Best Supporting Actress, and Laika’s the “The Boxtrolls” for Best Animated Feature.  Although Oscar eluded Oregon projects this time, to stand with their equally talented fellow nominees was impressive.  Congrats! Continue reading... ““Wild” and “The Boxtrolls” At Oscars 2015”

New Doc Screening at Cinema 21 This Week

Brian Lindstrom’s new film “Mothering Inside” follows inmate moms and their children in the Family Preservation Project at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. It shows at Cinema 21 in NW Portland on this Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7p.

Buy Tickets here:  http://www.cinema21.com/#motheringinside

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