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Ashland Independent Film Festival to Announce Full Line-up at Festival Preview Night and Offers a Sneak Peek at 10 Highlights

The Ashland Independent Film Festival will announce its 2017 film and event lineup at their Festival Preview Night on Tuesday, March 14 at 7 p.m. at the SOU Music Recital Hall in Ashland. This is the first chance to see clips from festival films, pick up the Pocket Guide, and get insider information on special guests and new events for AIFF2017. This event is FREE, and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

The five-day, five-night festival will run April 6-10 in several venues across Ashland.

Tim Oakley at Thursday Night Talks (TNT) in Astoria

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The Oregon Film Museum’s TNT (Thursday Night Talks) lecture series continues March 16th, 2017 with a presentation by Propmaster Tim Oakley of Portland-based Oakley Design Studios. Tim designs and creates props for feature films, television shows and commercial shoots. His work has appeared in over 100 motion pictures, including Dark Knight Rises, Jurassic World, Indiana Jones 4, and all of the Star Trek franchises. He also works on Oregon made television series The Librarians and Grimm, and locally-shot Green Room.

KIFF2017 Now Open For Submissions!

With over $1000 in prizes, and two free day pass vouchers to see most of the festival just for submitting, the Klamath Independent Film Festival is truly a filmmaker’s film festival, with a well rounded program showcasing the Klamath region and Oregon as a whole, to bring attention to regional filmmaking, and to expose Southern Oregon to filmmaking throughout the state, with support and attendance from statewide film organizations.

KIFF films are selected by a multi-person jury consisting of filmmakers and regular people to ensure a non-biased, balanced exhibition which celebrates films for film’s sake, in a way even general audiences can appreciate.

POWFest Celebrates 10 Years!

POWFest Celebrates 10 years of putting women directed films on screen with with BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN, THIS IS EVERYTHING: GIGI GORGEOUS, GUEST OF HONOR CHERYL DUNYE AND MORE, at this year’s festival.

Portland, Oregon – February 16, 2017 – The Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (POWFest) is pleased to announce the programming highlights of our upcoming festival scheduled to take place March 2-5, 2017 at The Hollywood Theatre. Tickets $9-$15 individual / $60 festival pass for premium access to all festival activities.

Oregon Business Talks “Portlandia”

Mike Green, Oregon Business, examines “Portandia’s” impact over the years as the show gears up to shoot its final season.

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Shut Up Anthony – World Premiere at Cinequest!

Shut Up Anthony will have its world premiere on March 2nd at the 2017 Cinequest Film Festival

Portland-made indie feature film SHUT UP ANTHONY will have it’s WORLD PREMIERE at the 2017 CINEQUEST FILM & VR FESTIVAL, as part of the New Visions Feature Competition! Five screenings! March 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th & 10th.

#OregonMade Exhibit Closes & Hollywood Theatre Opens MicroCinema At PDX

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In partnership with the Port of Portland, the Hollywood Theatre is opening a first-of-its-kind free microcinema at Portland International Airport today’s. The Hollywood Theatre at PDX will feature short films by Oregon filmmakers and host special events and visiting guests.Read more.

The #OregonMade exhibit, that has seen over 1.2 million pass by it in the last 7 months, closed yesterday.

HouseSpecial’s ‘Lamentation’ Screening at the New Hollywood Theatre @PDX

Portland animation studio HouseSpecial announces the opening screening of their latest short film Lamentation at The Hollywood Theatre @PDX, the new movie theatre in Portland’s airport (C Concourse), beginning on February 23, 2017 and running regularly through the Spring.

The short film is inspired by Portland’s own world-renowned Pink Martini’s rendition of the sorrowful Romanian ballad Până când nu te iubeam (Before I Fell in Love with You), with vocals by Storm Large. Director Kirk Kelley, Founding Partner/Creative Director of HouseSpecial, employed traditional stop-motion animation, in-camera VFX and CG elements combined with high-speed footage captured in practical environments.

Matt McCormick’s “Buzz One Four” – Preserving History

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If you missed Oregon filmmaker, Matt McCormick’s new documentary, “Buzz One Four“, (screened at PIFF), stay tuned for release information. “Buzz One Four” recollects and investigates, in first-hand experience, the “ill-fated flight of a Cold War B-52 bomber loaded with two thermonuclear bombs that crashed 90 miles from Washington DC.” Despite the US Air Force classifying full details of the B-52 crash, McCormick’s perspective, as grandson of the pilot, brings a detailed account of this fascinating, little-known historic event.

Miu Miu Women’s Stories Features Portland, Carmen Lynch – Directed By Chloë Sevigny

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Fashion brand Miu Mi, created an ongoing short film series, Women’s Tales, back in 2012, initially in partnership with the Venice Film Festival. Miu Miu commissions two films a year. The short films must use Miu Miu’s clothing line as costumes, and only female directors have been invited to participate. Last year, Chloë Sevigny (a big fan of the fashion line) directed comedienne, Carmen Lynch, in film no. 13, “Carmen“, and with David Cress (Co-Producer), Kevin Sullivan,(Line Producer) Eric Edwards (DP), and many of the crew from “Portlandia”, they shot here in Portland.

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