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TWO #OregonMade Films on NYTimes “Best of 2018” (so far) List

We always knew that #OregonMade films, series, docs, animation and interactive games were among the best in the nation – but now the New York Times has validated our belief. Both Debra Granik’s “Leave No Trace” and Andrew Haigh’s “Lean on Pete” appear on the paper’s recent “Best of” list – that’s 2 out of 8, not bad. Both are based on books by Oregonians as well – Peter Rock and Willy Vlautin – and created by the talented cast and crews based here in the state.

Join OMPA and VFX/PDX at the Job Mixer 2.0!

OMPA is supporting the VFX/PDX Job Mixer 2.0! RSVP now.

Monday, July 9th
from 5-7pm
Art Institute of Portland
1122 NW Davis St
3rd Floor/Student Commons loft

BendFilm’s “Women Filmmaker Production Fund” Is Up And Running

Help BendFilm fund the production of a local, women-led short film to be shot in Central Oregon. They only need $2,500 from this campaign to match a $2,500 grant from the Roundhouse Foundation. “The gender disparity in our industry is embarrassingly low and we need to be the spark that creates change!”

Here’s how the film production process will work:

– With your help, raise $2,500 through July 18th via this Seed&Spark Campaign.

– Issue a request for proposal from local female filmmakers about their film on July 19th.

Matt Groening’s New Animated Fantasy Show “Disenchantment” On Netflix Next Month

A new show for Netflix from Matt Groening – “Disenchantment,” an animated series that “follows the misadventures of a hard-drinking princess, her feisty elf companion and her personal demon.” Get ready – August 17th.

From Oregon to L.A. and back again | BLACKSTAR WARRIOR

I thought one could only make film in Hollywood. Then, I made a short in Portland and it changed my life.

Our stars Mindy Machen and Leonard Roberts in the cockpit of the Blackstar built by production designer Jubal Nance and art director Rob Taylor.

Los Angeles was the place I flew down to for meetings between long walks on beaches that felt hotter than the surface of the sun. Everything about L.A. felt like the polar opposite of Portland, the place where I had lived and worked as a comic book artist for years, first for Dark Horse and then for Marvel & DC, all the while coming up with ideas for film and television, ideas that made me feel excited not just as a creator but as a viewer.

Be Part Of The Pickathon Camera Crew

Pickathon Camera Crew
June 26, 2018 — August 5, 2018
Tuesdays, June 26-July 17, 6:30pm-9:30pm;
plus practice shoot;
plus Pickathon Festival August 2-5.
$765 – includes pass to festival (over $400 value)

Learn to shoot live events as a trained cameraperson for the Pickathon Music Festival, one of the largest outdoor music festivals in the US (August 2-5).

Woman Film Production Fund

Help BendFilm fund the production of a women-helmed, short film to be shot in Central Oregon. We only need $2,500 from this Seed&Spark campaign to match a $2,500 grant from the Roundhouse Foundation. The gender disparity in our industry is embarrassingly low and we need to be the spark that creates change!

More: https://www.seedandspark.com/fund/bendfilms-women-filmmaker-production-fund#story

Here’s How It’ll Work:
– Issue a request for proposal from female filmmakers on July 1st.
– With your help, raise $2,500 through July 18th via this Seed&Spark Campaign.

#OregonMade “Leave No Trace” In Theaters June 29th

#OregonMade “Leave No Trace” – is out this week! Oregon looks fantastic and the film has collected some very positive reviews. Manohla Dargis of the @NewYorkTimes raves it’s “a deeply affecting story about a veteran and his teenage daughter – movingly played by Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie.” See it in select theaters June 29! You won’t want to miss this movie, it is getting great reviews, including “100% fresh” on Rotten Tomotoes!

Director, Debra Granik’s #OregonMade “Leave No Trace” is one of 50 films that has been selected to screen during the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Fetsival this year.

Update On #OregonMade “The OA”

The Portland Tribune covered the latest on the goings on of Netflix’s “The OA” shooting in Oregon.

“The OA” is written and produced by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. Marling stars as Prairie Johnson, a young blind woman who “returns to her hometown after an unexplained seven-year absence with her eyesight restored and now calling herself “The OA.””

VFX/PDX + OMPA Job Mixer coming 7/9 to Ai

It’s been over a year (!) since our last job mixer, held as Grimm came to a close. Let’s do it up again as an equally large group finishes – this time out at LAIKA on their current production, Missing Link. This puts some serious top tier stop motion animation and CG/VFX artistic talent out on the streets and available for hire. Our goal is connect you all with other studios/companies/productions on the rise – ladies and gentlemen, I give you Job Mixer 2 – the sequel!

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