The Confluence

Welcome To PixAir!

When Perry sent me an email letting me know that he had purchased a jet airliner mock up I knew I had to go check it out. While one or two options for filming in an airliner exist, none present an option that is logistically straight forward and simple. Shooting inside a real plane is of course the most realistic but the process is complex. Everything, including all crew and equipment, must pass through security and the crew is matched up with TSA agents inside and outside on the tarmac.

“The Wilderness of James” to World Premiere at SXSW

The iOPIF feature, “The Wilderness of James“, that shot in Portland in 2012, is to have it’s world premiere at SXSW this year. Michael Johnson (formerly from Kamp Grizzly), wrote and directed the feature, it stars Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Road”, voice of Norman Babcock in “ParaNorman”), Virginia Madsen (“Sideways”), Isabelle Fuhrman (“Orphan”), Evan Ross (“Jeff Who Lives At home”), and Danny Devito (“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”).
Johnson grew up in Portland and graduated from the University of Oregon before moving to Los Angeles to start his career.

THE WINDING STREAM to have World Premiere at the 2014 SXSW Festival

Indie filmmaker Beth Harrington is pleased to announce that her latest music documentary film, The Winding Stream – The Carters, The Cashes and the Course of Country Music, will have its world premiere at the prestigious 2014 South X Southwest Film and Music Festival in Austin, Texas.

The film tells the story of the American roots music dynasty at the heart of Americana music – The Original Carter Family.

The Carters didn’t just play the music of their Virginia hill country upbringing.

Potrtland International Film Festival Kicks Off February 6

The 37th Portland International Film Festival kicks off on February 6 with a host of great films from around the world, a special “Oregon Shorts” night featuring the newest project from acclaimed director Irene Taylor Brodsky, and great new venues including OMSI’s new Empirical Theater.

The Oregon Filmmaker Showcase will feature pieces from Vanessa Renwick, Joanna Priestley, Kimberly Warner, Sal Strom, Rachelle Sarfati, Pam Minty, Stephanie Hough, and of course Irene Taylor Brodsky. The program is on February 11 at the Whitsell Auditorium.

“Portlandia” Returns With Season 4

IFC’s Portlandia is back (February 27th) with their eagerly awaited Season 4. As in seasons past, part of the fun of Portlandia is seeing who shows up as guest stars, and Season 4 will not disappoint. Stars such as, Kirsten Dunst (Spider Man), Vanessa Bayer (Saturday Night Live) the intriguing, Joshua Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), amongst others, even Paul Allen and some Trailbalzers make an appearance as well as “the official vehicle of the Pacific Northwest, the Subaru!

Moviemaker Magazine Awards Two Oregon Cities With Honors For “Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2014”!

In years gone by, Moviemaker Magazine lumped together big city and small town to compete for the sought after title of, “Best Places To Live and Work as a Moviemaker”. This year, the magazine has split their list into three components:

Top Big Cities (they define as more than 50,000 residents)
Top Small Cities (100,000)
Top Towns (under 100,000)

We are excited to see that two Oregon cities took honors in the Big City and Town categories – Portland and Ashland!

Great Film Recommendations and Other Ideas…

4 Easy Steps to Write a Script…and a few great movie recommendations for inspiration!

If you want to be a filmmaker, a screenwriter, or just need a creative inspiration, read on:

Step #1: Make Popcorn! I’ve created “The Great Movie List”, which I’ll pull from and share some of my favorites due to various reasons. You won’t see many “tent pole pictures” or the blockbusters from Hollywood because you’ve probably already saw them and you may have already watched some of my suggestions.

FiLMLaB’s 2014 Script to Screen Competition Now Open

Alis Volat Propriis stars Katie Michels and Randall Jahnson, and writer Haley Isleib at the 2013 OIFF Awards Ceremony

Willamette Writers is soliciting entries for the 2014 FiLMLaB Script to Screen short film scriptwriting competition. We seek writers with the ability to tell a compelling story quickly and cinematically, while adhering to a theme and a practical eye towards real-life movie production. Unique to scriptwriting contests, the Script to Screen Competition grand prize is this: we will produce a short film based on the winning script!

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Costume Rentals Moves to New Facility

The new Production Department Building for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Talent, OR, completed construction in late October 2013. On November 19th, OSF Costume Rentals started the monumental task of moving their stock of over 50,000 costume pieces from a rented warehouse in Ashland, OR, their home of almost ten years, six miles down the road to their brand new state of the art facility. The improvements are undeniable, going from about 8,000 square feet to just over 11,000, customized rack systems for hanging costumes, climate control, even floors, a window, the fact that the new facility isn’t a converted lumber mill (the former facility was a space in the old Parson’s Pine mill building)…

OMPA Annual Meeting: Live stream 7pm Tuesday

Oregon Media Production Association celebrates achievements of commercial, film, TV and interactive media production in Oregon at their annual meeting on Tuesday night. The meeting will be streamed live beginning at 7pm PST and running for one hour. The streaming link can be found on www.ompa.org or by searching Livestream.com.

OMPA Annual Meeting on Livestream.com, Tuesday 1/28/14 at 7pm

At OMPA’s annual meeting the association will award Awards of Excellence in three categories, distribute over $4500 in student scholarship money and announce newly-elected members of the OMPA Board of Directors.

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