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“Wild” Locations Get Recognition At LMGA Awards

Nancy Haecker, Location Manager "Wild" (photo: Variety) — Nancy Haecker, Location Manager “Wild” (photo: Variety, Fox Searchlight)

Congratulations to Nancy Haecker (“Wild“), who, at the second annual Location Managers Guild of America Awards, won for “Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Film”. The awards took place at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on Saturday night.

According to Variety, Haecker read Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, “Wild”, during a flight, and was so enthused that she wanted to scout the film project. Even though most of the film plays for California, around 60 locations in Oregon were scouted by Haecker; from the high desert in central Oregon, the city of Ashland, Crater Lake, the Portland metro area, to the Bridge of the Gods in the Columbia River Valley Gorge.

Marriage and Faith in “Emily”

marriage Local Portlander and Living Room Theater employee, Ryan Graves, is tackling his first feature film—“Emily.” He’s almost half-way through his crowd funding campaign for post production on Indiegogo. With a goal of 10k, at the time of writing, he is almost at a quarter way there.

Graves added, “we shot the entire film for $20k this past fall. That included paying and feeding everyone. We spent every waking hour on the film.”

The feature follows and expands on his previous short film, “Mr. Right,” which won Graves the Best Short Film Director Award at the 2014 Oregon Independent Film Festival.

Academy Award Winning Documentary “Citizenfour” Added To 2015 POWFest Line-up

The Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival is honored to announce the addition of Academy Award winning documenatry CITIZENFOUR to the 2015 festival line-up. Buy Tickets Here.

CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).

Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name “CITIZENFOUR,” in January 2013.

DisOrient Film Festival Opens in Eugene April 17th

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DisOrient is a social justice film festival dedicated to deconstructing the media stereotypes of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans as “Orientals.” We believe in the power of film-as-art to educate, heal and improve the lives of people by giving voice to their experiences. Started in 2006 by artists, educators, and activists, DisOrient is a grassroots and volunteer-run film festival committed to presenting honest portrayals of the diversity of the Asian and Pacific Islander American experience. When selecting new and exciting films for our festival, we use the W.E.B.

Lindstrom’s “Mothering Inside” – Second Film in Oregon Film[Makers] Screening Series

Following on from our successful screening of “Wild” at the Salem Cinema last December, we are pleased to be starting a new series of free screenings in Salem made by, or featuring, Oregon filmmakers and subjects which we are calling Oregon Film[Makers].

The next Oregon-made film to be featured, is filmmaker Brian Lindstrom and “Mothering Inside“. The short documentary will be special screening March 3rd at 7p at the Level B Theater Pub, 445 High St SE, Salem, Oregon.

“Wild” and “The Boxtrolls” At Oscars 2015

Photo appeared on Reese Witherspoon's Facebook page — Photo appeared on Reese Witherspoon’s Facebook page

At Oscars 2015 the 87th Academy Awards Witherspoon was nominated for Best Actress in “Wild”, and Dern for Best Supporting Actress, and Laika’s the “The Boxtrolls” for Best Animated Feature. Although Oscar eluded Oregon projects this time, to stand with their equally talented fellow nominees was impressive. Congrats!

8th Annual POWFest is March 12-15, 2015 at The Hollywood Theatre

POWFest 2015
March 12-15, 2015
Festival Pass $40 / Individual showings $8-10
More info: powfest.com

Come see the work of over 60 women directors!

The 2015 films were judged by a panel of industry professionals along with film enthusiasts who evaluated over 600 submissions on the merits of creativity, production value, aesthetic vision and storytelling craft. We are very excited to present such a strong collection of films from around the world during the 8th annual festival! Check out the list of selected films here.

OMPA Appoints Nathaniel Applefield as Interim Executive Director

The Oregon Media Production Association (OMPA) has appointed Nathaniel Applefield as the organization’s Interim Executive Director following the departure of Tom McFadden after seven years of service to the organization. Applefield served prior as Executive Director for the Portland Local of SAG-AFTRA, and has over ten years of experience in Oregon politics. A search for a permanent Executive Director is expected to begin in the coming weeks.

“A River Between Us” Screens at Oregon Historical Society

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Every seat was filled last night at the Oregon invite-only screening of “A River Between Us” – a feature documentary detailing the sometimes contentious, and largest restoration project in the US along the Klamath River. Jason Atkinson, keen fisherman and 14 year Oregon state senator, introduced his film to a rapt audience including current Governor Kate Brown and past Governor, Ted Kulongoski. Read more here.

Co-producer on the project was Oregonian, Jeff Martin (“Undivided”).

Clackamas Community College Partners with Portland Film Festival

andy Portland Film Festival (September 1st – 7^th, 2015) is partnering with Clackamas Community College’s (CCC) Digital Media Communications (DMC) program for the 2015 festival season.

Led by director Andy Mingo, the DMC program has the led the state in film production experience in Oregon for its students. It is the only higher education program with state-of-the-art tools including Oculus Rift Virtual Reality devices and digital cinema cameras, like those used in locally produced, “Wild,” with Reese Witherspoon.

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