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Bloated Cat Productions and Penguin Films will World Premiere their latest horror feature film, UNDER THE KNIFE, at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival 2018 on Saturday, March 17th at 9pm. Among the world’s elite genre festivals, Yubari, now in its 28th year, is the largest horror festival in Japan.
Together with award-winning animation studio ShadowMachine, the #OregonMade Creative Foundation has just launched a unique paid apprenticeship program focusing on hands-on, stop-motion animation production work.
ShadowMachine is about to go into production on a stop-motion series and we have worked together to create two, three month, paid apprenticeship positions on the project.
You can find more info on the OMCF website.
The 41st Portland International Film Festival will run February 15- March 1. Passes and tickets are now on sale.
Since 1977, the Portland International Film Festival has been the Northwest Film Center’s annual showcase of new world cinema. Over three weeks in February, through the exhibition of nearly 100 feature films and 60+ short films, PIFF audiences across the City of Portland travel the globe in theater seats through our celebration of the world’s filmmakers and cinephiles.
NW Documentary’s D.I.Y. workshop series prepares students to write, direct, shoot, and edit their own short documentary! No prior filmmaking experience necessary.
Spring Workshops are as follows:
D.I.Y. Story Craft
Develop and workshop an in-depth creative treatment: leave ready to kickstart your next documentary project. Story Craft makes a great pairing with either of our D.I.Y. Documentary workshops!
Class runs Wednesdays, 6-8 pm starting February 28 and ending April 4.
D.I.Y. Documentary
From concept to creation to the big screen: bring your own documentary to life in only 10 weeks!
Debra Granik (“Winter’s Bone”) directed the #OregonMade “Leave No Trace” premiered at Sundance at the end of last month. After the rave reviews Sony Pictures Worldwide was quick to acquire international rights, and Bleecker Sreet has aquired North Americn rights. “Leave No Trace,” set in Portland’s Forest Park, tells the tale of Will and his teenage daughter, Tom, who “have lived off the grid, blissfully undetected by authorities in a vast nature reserve on the edge of Portland.
This week our Raider/Contributor skates back to the 70’s to that highest of high times for that uber-niche genre of Roller Derby films. Whether you just barely remember Rollerball (the original) or your obsessed with Unholy Rollers, or you are more of a Roller Derby Modernist and rely on Rollerball (the remake) and Whip It, you must acknowledge that the Godmother of them all is Kansas City Bomber. But did you know that KC was actually happiest Portland? Raider/Contributor Phil Oppenheim takes us under the laces and beneath the helmet(less)s of the 1972 Raquel Welch classic…
Don’t forget to get your application in for the $18,500 Outdoor Adventure Film Grant, plus supporting in-kind donations from Koerner Camera, Mission Control and Digital One, now open at the #OregonMade Creative Foundation.
Submissions are due on January 31 – Time is Running Out!
This psychological drama follows Karen, a 27 year-old porn store employee and Seaside resident. Karen’s job has always been dreary and monotonous, serving the tourists and tenants of Seaside. But that was before she found the sleep tapes… To what extent will Karen feed a growing addiction, and what will this addiction bring out of her?
Produced and created by PSU Students, the project involved over 150 volunteers and thousands of hours of work.
MovieMaker Magazine has annouced their “Best Places to Live and Work as a moviemaker” with Portland coming in at #11 in the “Big Cities” category, and Ashland at #5 in the “Small Cities” category. Ashalnd was beaten out by New Orleans, Savannah, Santa Fe, and Pittsburg, and Portland by Atlanta, Vancouver (BC), Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Albuquerque, Boston, Toronto, Austin and Montreal.
“Everything Sucks” is the latest #OregonMade series to hit TV screens and set to air February 16th. This newest Netflix series is described as a high school coming-of-age dramedy, set in the late 1990’s in Boring, Oregon. It shot 10 episodes last year in Oregon City, Boring and Fort Rock.
“Everything Sucks” was created by Ben York Jones, and Michael Mohan, and is produced by Midnight Radio. The series is described as a, “quirky, funny coming-of-age story that follows two groups of high school misfits, an A/V club and a Drama club who collide in 1996 Oregon.
