This year, Ashland, Oregon took the top spot in MovieMaker’s Best Places to Live and Work contest Town category (for populations under 100,000). The award acknowledges Ashland’s focus on the arts, great quality of life, beautiful surroundings, and most importantly, its commitment to film and media activity as a bonafide industry in this community of 20,000. Last January, Ashland placed second behind Asheville, NC, but managed to unseat their east coast counterpart for 2015 by having another banner year of production including features, commercials, corporate films, documentaries, tv shows and more. Continue reading... “Ashland Named #1 Town in the US to Live and Work as a Filmmaker by MovieMaker Magazine”
The Siskiyou FilmFest began in 2002 in Ashland, moving to Grants Pass in 2008, and in 2009 began encompassing small towns in the Rogue Valley into their screening repertoire. Additionally, the festival added the KidFest for elementary aged children, as well as Youth Video contest for middle and high school aged kids.
The 13th Annual Siskiyou FilmFest runs January 30-31st at Grants Pass High School Performing Art Center. The festival focuses on “the the activism, science and history of the environmental movement and features award winning films about people creating real world solutions to today’s environmental challenges on a local, regional and global scale. Continue reading... “Siskiyou FilmFest Begins January 30th, Grants Pass”
Portland based feature film to premier at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 23rd and 26th.
Birds of Neptune, a feature film by Steven Richter which was shot in Portland in 2013 will make its World Premier in Park City, Utah at the Slamdance Film Festival. With an all local Portland based cast and crew and a soundtrack from primarily PNW bands this is truly a local production.
Gordon Sondland, Governor Kitzhaber, Cheryl Strayed, Russell Hornsby (photo: Kim Oanh Nguyen)
There was a big turnout at the Eastside Exchange Ballroom last night for the Oregon Film’s Annual Governor’s Awards. Kicking off the event was Gordon Sondland (Oregon Film Board Chair, founder and chairman of Provenance Hotels, and co-founder of the merchant bank Aspen Capital) who introduced the evening and then actor Russell Hornsby (“Grimm“), who then declared himself now a Portland local! (“Grimm” is now shooting season 4 in the Portland Metro area). Continue reading... “The Oregon Film Annual Governor’s Awards”
The Oregon Governor’s Office of Film & Television (AKA The Oregon Film Office) has been nominated for consideration for a Location Managers Guild of America Award for “exemplary work on WILD“. Winners will be chosen after a vote from active and retired members of the LMGA the finalists were announced January 27th, with final balloting of the nominees taking place February 6th. The second Annual Awards Show will be help in Los Angeles on March 7th.
TNT’s new drama series, “The Librarians”, (a follow up to the movie trilogy, “The Librarian”) delivered 5.4 million viewers for the two hour premiere in December. TNT and Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment are no strangers to Oregon, having shot all but one season of “Leverage” here. Many locations in the Portland metro area, Clackamas county and even the Captiol building in Salem were used in season one.
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