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Ever wonder how LAIKA House produces their commercials? This video is a great look into just how they do it. It takes a special group of artists and technicians to make a commercial like this one for Honda. We’ve been talking a lot about Oregon’s diversity of roads to land car commercials, we didn’t stop to think that Oregon’s Animation industry is also a strategic advantage! Continue reading... “Behind the Scenes of LAIKA House’s new Honda Commercial”
SEATTLE–Many industry projects require makeup artists to also perform as a production’s hairstylist.
Colour Box Makeup Studios, which has offered four film/TV makeup workshops in Portland and Seattle over the last two years, is hosting an Oct. 8 workshop in Seattle that broadens makeup artists’ hairstyling skills allowing them to offer a more “complete package” to potential employers.
The class, which is limited to 12 students, is currently enrolling and has three spots still available. It is hosted by 2011 Emmy nominee and Colour Box founder Kerry Herta and veteran celebrity hairstylist Lara Cilento. Continue reading... “Three Spots Left for TV/Film Hair Workshop”
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Portland,OR-based filmmakers Brandon Roberts and Tara Johnson-Medinger look to the community and Kickstarter to raise $20,000 by October 31st, 2011 to fund the next phase of effort in this classic “girl meets boy” tale with a gothic twist.
Continue reading... ““My Summer as a Goth” Feature Film Production Launches Kickstarter Campaign”
Welcome to Good Works Film Festival, a first-time event in Eugene (with a kick-off screening in Portland). We are presenting a series of acclaimed feature-length films with an array of social justice themes.
GWFF is not only about great films; what happens once the lights come on is equally important. The festival celebrates and encourages thoughtful discussion, community engagement and positive action, and will be providing a context, time and space for this to occur.
Numerous organizations and groups will participate, in the audience post-screening discussions with filmmakers, panels or roundtables, by providing resources and by networking and socializing at the festival Hub. Continue reading... “Good Works Film Festival”
Colour Box Makeup Studios, which has offered four film/TV makeup workshops in Portland and Seattle over the last two years, returns to Seattle Oct. 8 for a one-day class in film/TV hairstyling. The class will be hosted by 2011 Emmy nominee and Colour Box founder Kerry Herta and veteran celebrity hairstylist Lara Cilento. Discounts are available to previous Colour Box students, licensed artists, beauty school students and working film/TV artists. Contact 310.360.3992 or [email protected] for more information. Continue reading... “Film/TV Hairstyling Workshop Comes to the Northwest”
Continue reading... “Ashland Independent Film Festival now Accepting Entries”
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River Network National River Rally (a Portland based national nonprofit since 1998) will kick off with the benefit screening of The River Why on September 9th, 7pm at the Hollywood Theatre. Actors William Hurt, Zach Gilford (“Friday Night Lights”), Alex Hurt and Producer Kristi Denton Cohen will be on hand before the screening and for a post-film Q&A.
The River Why was shot entirely on location in Oregon and tells the story of 20 year old fly-fishing prodigy, Gus Orviston (Zach Gilford), who, in an act of rebellion, shuns his prior life and family for what he thinks will be a secluded existence of fly fishing heaven on the banks of a beautiful river. Continue reading... “Portland Premiere Of “The River Why” To Benefit The River Network”
Hosted by comedian Ian Karmel
Live performances by Rip City’s own TWINS bringing you cop jams for people who hate narcs and soundtracks from forgotten malls
Monday, August 29th, 2011
and every last Monday of the month
DOORS OPEN 6:30PM, VIDEO QUEUE 6:30-7:00PM, EVENT 7:30PM
At the Video Gong Show the audience rules the screen. Bring us your favorite video clips to be judged and jeered by your peers (all in good fun). Past playlists have included a combination of viral classics and rare gems from Abraham Linkin’s, “I Got it at Ross,” to Bill Cosby Bukowski performing Jelloems. Continue reading... “The Second Monthly Video Gong Show Kicks Off Monday”
The Decemberists’ most recent music video to the track “Calamity Song” off The King Is Dead album made its worldwide debut this morning and is already getting plenty of acclaim from music fans and the press alike. Directed by “Parks & Recreation” co-creator Michael Schur, the video portrays a group of kids playing what to the non-literary mind looks like tennis but is in fact Eschaton – the athletic game leading to global nuclear crisis from David Foster Wallace’s dystopic opus “Infinite Jest.” Continue reading... ““Calamity Song” Premieres – Directed by Michael Schur in Oregon”

OREGON STILLS
On View September 1st – September 30th, 2011
Opening reception Tuesday September 6th, 6pm – 8pm
STUMPTOWN COFFEE ROASTERS
128 SW 3RD Avenue | Portland, OR
Carefully selected by filmmakers Aaron Katz, Matt McCormick, and Kelly Reichardt and curators May Barruel and Justen Harn, this exhibition features stills from three films shot in Oregon: Cold Weather, Some Days Are Better Than Others,and Meek’s Cutoff. Crew photographers include Scott Green, Neil Kopp, and Greg Schmitt. Shawn Levy, a film critic for The Oregonian, will be providing a curatorial statement that will be sent out to press at the end of August. Continue reading... “Oregon Stills Exhibition – Aaron Katz, Matt McCormick & Kelly Reichardt”