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Stop-Motion Animation With Dan Ackerman

Stop-Motion Animation with Dan Ackerman starts January 21st. Register online today.

Looking forward to Anomolisa? Fan of The Boxtrolls? Inspired by Coraline? If yes, our Stop-Motion Animation class with Dan Ackerman is for you. For the detail-oriented creative, this 9-session course will help you gain the tools and learn the techniques of a variety of drawn animation and object animation approaches. From the technical aspects of camera set-up, control, movement, and lighting, to the more conceptual like developing your message and storyline.

16mm Cinematography With Scott Ballard

16mm Cinematography with Scott Ballard starts January 19th! Register online today.

Analog filmmaking is back at the Northwest Film Center! After an almost five-year hiatus, we’re excited to offer 16mm Cinematography again and this time with local Director of Photography Scott Ballard (DEATH ON A ROCK, THE BLACK SEA, HIDING BLAME). The nine-session course will give participants the opportunity to try out different 16mm film stocks (both black & white and color) and even different cameras (Bolex and Arriflex-S). Working in groups, students will complete projects in order to learn about lighting, blocking, and framing.

ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of 2015

To our friends in and near Portland: The best archaeology-related films in the world are coming to Portland, starting Friday night, January 15. This is our annual event, ArchaeologyFest Film Series:Best of 2015! Please come to see some outstanding films and help us support TAC Festival 2016 by enjoying our PSU mini-Festival at the Fifth Avenue Cinema in Portland for four evenings (a different 2-hour show each evening), Friday, January 15; Saturday, January 16; Friday, January 22: and Saturday, January 23.

Screenwriting Fundamentals With Kyle Aldrich

Screenwriting Fundamentals with Kyle Aldrich starts January 21st. Register online today.

Before story ideas make it onto the screen, there are outlines, treatments, and then a structured screenplay with plot, story, dialogue, and transitions! It can be a long road, but it doesn’t have to be scary. If you’ve ever wondered how to get from idea to screen, what the difference between plot and story is, or want some guidance on writing effective dialogue, Screenwriting: Fundamentals can help you get a solid start.

Hollywood Theatre To Open Annex At PDX

Boring, long layovers and frustrating weather delays will be a thing of the past – the Hollywood Theatre is opening an annex theatre in gate C6 at Portland Internatinal Airport. With approximately 5-8 million people passing through every year, the opportunity to entertain travelers while they wait, will be a welcome “first” for a US airport.

Fox12 Showcases Local, International Rigging Company, Spdyercam

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Oregonian, Todd’ “Hammer” Semmes, co-founded Spydercam, with Tim “Doc” Drnec, over 20 years ago in Hood River. Their unique creative rigging company has assisted over 60 feature films to get those often “impossible” looking shots by rigging their suspended camera systems with precision and creativity that does not compare to other traditional methods. With offices in Oregon, Colorado, (and equipment in Los Angeles and New York), Spydercam has significantly contributed to such movies as; “Transformer”, “Spyderman” , “The Avengers”, “The Life Of Pi”, “Mission Impossible I, II and II”, (see all their credits here.)

Discovery Network’s “Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove” Is Coming To Newport

Discovery's "Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove" (photo: Discovery, Showing Captain Gary Ripka) — Discovery’s “Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove” (photo: Discovery, Showing Captain Gary Ripka)

Discovery’s hugely successful “Deadliest Catch” (now in it’s 12th season) has a new spin off – “Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove“. Produced by Original Productions for Discovery, the show will be featuring a cast of local Newport fishermen, and their families. In a race against time they will be attempting to catch as many fish as they can during the open season in the typically treacherous conditions of the “graveyard of the Pacific”.

Fullbright’s “Gone Home” Is Coming To A Console Near You

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The Oregon, independent game designer, Fullbright, has announced that their popular, and multi- award-winning game, “Gone Home“, will now be available in a console edition, January 12th. Next up for Fullbright, is Tacoma, coming in 2016.

LAIKA Celebrates 10th Anniversary

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Congratulations to LAIKA, who are celebrating their 10th Anniversary this month. LAIKA has continued to hold it’s own over the last decade, producing animated features that are works of art in their own right – beginning in 2009 with “Coraline“, “ParaNorman“, “The Boxtrolls“, and currently in production, “Kubo and the Two Strings“.

President and CEO, Travis Knight, said it best when he talked to Wired Magazine, “We’re an outlier.

“Portlandia” Season 6 – Back January 21st

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Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen are back with more “Portlandia” on January 21st, 2016.

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