The Confluence

Join The Telly Awards on March 10th at 1PM EST for the fifth Throughlines event of the season: “Where to Film Next: Colorado and Oregon,” featuring Shawna Schultz (Mass FX Media) and Tim Williams (Oregon Film).

RSVP now to discover how they are transforming their states’ film landscapes through community organizing, strategic incentives, and a “rising tide floats all boats” philosophy.

We’ll discuss:

• How state incentives work and how the U.S. stacks up globally
• Navigating state incentives and building producer visibility
• Why the U.S.

On a brutally stalled morning in West Salem, four people discover how easily an ordinary day can slip sideways.

Craig is just trying to get to work on time when everything that can go wrong starts to. Fred, hungry and nearly out of options, accepts help from a stranger whose generosity comes with strings he doesn’t quite understand. Joey’s first day as a barber ends in disaster when a single mistake leaves his client’s mullet on the floor—and his confidence soon follows.

Registration for Oregon Doc Camp is now open.  Three days of screenings, case studies, work-in-progress screenings, community building and more. April 10-12, 2026

What is Doc Camp?
It’s a multi-day event in Portland, OR where mid-career documentary filmmakers from all over the country gather for case studies with industry leaders, screenings of works-in-progress, timely panel discussions and lifelong community building.

Find out more and register here.

A new stop-motion world from Hillsboro’s LAIKA Studios will arrive in theaters this fall. The award-winning animation studio announced that “Wildwood,” its sixth feature film, will open nationwide Oct. 23. Directed by LAIKA President and CEO Travis Knight, the epic fantasy follows a young girl’s quest to rescue her baby brother, leading her into a forbidden forest inhabited by enchanted creatures, uneasy allies and dangerous adversaries.

The voice cast includes the likes of Carey Mulligan, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Awkwafina, Jake Johnson and Charlie Day, among others.

Picture This have moved their stages into a bigger, better facility. With over three times the room for your production with expansive production offices, a private conference room, makeup and wardrobe room, a commercial kitchen, a lunchroom and so much more. Coming soon: a black box stage. Over 5000 sq ft of open concept shooting space to build multiple sets, stage props or whatever your production requires.

Reach out and find out more!

OPB’s “Oregon Experience” team for the premiere screening of their new film, “Remember Mulugeta: Confronting Hate in Portland” on Tuesday, February 17 at 7:00 p.m. at the Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland).

About the film: Portland in the 1980s was a hotbed of racist, skinhead violence, which reached a boiling point in 1988 when three neo-Nazis murdered Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw. Was it homegrown hate or did it come from outside?

Following the screening, we’ll host a Q&A with the film’s producers and hear from some of the people featured in the film.

If you remember Reese Witherspoon throwing her boots off a mountain ridge in the 2014 movie “Wild,” or recognize familiar places in “Animal House,” “The Goonies,” “Twilight,” “Stand By Me” or “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” then you know Oregon is home to many big-screen moments. How fitting, then, that we even have the world’s last Blockbuster store, in Bend. (There’s a film about that, too.)

Since 2020 alone, more than 50 films have been produced in Oregon, including big-screen favorites “Pig,” “First Cow” and “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” — a stop-motion animated feature film that was named the Golden Globes’ best animated film of 2022.

On Saturday, April 4, there will be a special sneak preview of the new film from Bruce Campbell, with Bruce in attendance for a Q&A!

“Ernie and Emma” tells the story of widowed pear salesman Ernie Tyler (Bruce Campbell) traveling to scatter his wife’s ashes in places she specified, each location stirring memories that help him process their marriage, his work life, and his future.

Bruce Campbell is an actor and director, most well known for his role as Ash in the EVIL DEAD series, as well as his appearances in the cult films BUBBA HO-TEP and MANIAC COP.

Get Ready for the 15^th Annual McMinnville Short Film Festival: A Four-Day Extravaganza of Independent Cinema with Special Guest Director Michelle Garza Cervera and the Oregon premiere of the 2026 Oscar nominated “The Singers.”

The excitement is building as the McMinnville Short Film Festival (MSFF) gears up for an unforgettable celebration of independent cinema from February 26 to March 1, 2026. With a dazzling selection of 94 short films and four screenplay finalists representing over 15 countries, showcasing a rich array of Oregon and Pacific Northwest premieres that are sure to captivate audiences!