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Fox Searchlight’s “Wild” Premieres In Telluride

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2-GSqPyl0[/youtube]

The 41st Telluride Film Festival announced it’s lineup today. Fox Searchlight Picture’s “Wild” will be premiering at the festival. “Wild” starring Reese Witherspoon, and produced by her production company, Pacific Standard, shot in more locations throughout Oregon than any other project filmed in the state to date. From southern Oregon; Crater Lake and Ashland; to the Badlands, Smith Rock and Bend in Central Oregon; and also the Portland metro area, Timberline and Bridge of The Gods in the Columbia River Gorge, to name a few.

Roy W. Dean Fall Filmmaker Grant Now Accepting Applications

Applications are now being accepted for the Roy W. Dean Fall Grant. The grant gives filmmakers a chance to get their films going or completed with an award of $2,500 in cash and $30,000 in film products and services. Films can be documentaries, short films, and features and must be unique and contribute to society. Deadline for submission is September 30th, 2014

New this year for the grant is the Britt Penrod Audience Award. Twenty finalists chosen for the grant will have the opportunity to enter their trailers in competition for a $250 cash prize.

Stop-Motion Series in Eastern Oregon Needs Your Help

Chuck Peters, a small town filmmaker and LEGO stop-motion animator has launched his Kickstarter campaign for his latest project Hak and Gnasher. The campaign’s aim is to raise $1350.00 for acquiring the necessary LEGO bricks, animation software, and a DSLR camera to allow him to produce his web series Hak and Gnasher in house. The campaign is over half over, with only 25 days left, and he has raised 67% of the goal so far.

Boinx Software, developer of the popular stop-motion animation apps iStopMotion for iPad and iStopMotion for Mac, recently published a story to their blog to help raise awareness for the Hak & Gnasher Kickstarter campaign.

VFX/PDX and OMSI Science Pub present: Cardboard Castle + Live MoCap with CCC, 8/19 @ Crystal Ballroom

Join us for a night dedicated to all things imagination as Cooper Johnson & his crew at Cardboard Castle will guide us through inspiration laden breakdowns of their recent work. Also on hand will be Damon Redmond (Art Director at SuperGenius by day/instructor at CCC by night) and DMC department Director Andy Mingo from Clackamas Community College, both strapped with a loaded Motion Capture setup, with intent to demo it! There are some lively things happening down at CCC, which will be undeniably clear after seeing the tech in action.

Oregon Girl Turns Web-series into Major Hollywood Deal

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK8R94SDijg[/youtube]

This is one of those local success stories that we love to hear. If you haven’t already read the recent story in Willamette Week, “80 Million Paige Views: How an Oregon girl, her mother and a struggling local director turned their YouTube series into a major Hollywood deal,” we definitely suggest taking a look at the full article.

Paige McKenzie, who lives in rural Oregon, about an hour outside Portland started her YouTube ghost series, The Haunting of Sunshine Girl, in 2010.

Storytelling Matters. Join Us and Win $100,000 in Amazing Filmmaking Awards

When was the last time you told a story that you felt so connected to, that if you could, you would tell it entirely for free? And as a storyteller, when was the last time you made a film that truly moved people, and intensely reminded you of your passion for this craft?

Inspired by 10 years of filmmaking, 7 years of giving back, and 1 about-to-launch filmmaking platform, we are excited beyond words to announce Storytelling Parade.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/102484232[/vimeo]

Eastern Oregon Film Festival: Call for Entries 2015

Filmmakers are invited to submit works for consideration in the 6th Eastern Oregon Film Festival —held in La Grande, OR, May 7-9, 2015.

EOFF has been graced by many artists and industry professionals—whether in-the-flesh or via Skype Q&A—including Terence Nance, Matt Porterfield, Ornana, Elizabeth Mims, Nandan Rao, Kentucker Audley, Dustin Guy Defa, Zach Weintraub, Lucas Leyva, Tristan Patterson, LAIKA,Evan Glodell, Sophia Takal, Jessica Oreck and many more.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Secure Online Screener—VIMEO ONLY. No discs. No Youtube links.
Submissions must have been completed after August 2012.

Oregon Sci-Fi Feature “A Morning Light” on Kickstarter

Extraterrestrial visitation. Ecology. Wilderness. Human Psychology. Human Nature. The mechanistic response to be fearful of things we do not understand—of that which lies outside of our limited understanding.

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Oregon filmmaker Ian Clark is raising funds on Kickstarter for A MORNING LIGHT—a stark, feature-length portrait about alleged alien abduction phenomenon. Starring Zach Weintraub and Celia Rowlson-Hall.

Shooting September 2014 in La Grande, OR—read about it at Filmmaker Magazine and Tribeca.

CHECK IT OUT ON KICKSTARTER

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ianclark/a-morning-light

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Hinge Digital and Roundhouse team up for adidas Originals SL Loop Runner

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/99610562[/vimeo]

Hinge Digital and Roundhouse agency partnered to create this dynamic launch video for the adidas Originals SL Loop Runner. The animation was created by Hinge’s Portland-based team using Autodesk Maya, mental ray, AfterEffects and Nuke.

Check out Hinge Digital’s other projects on their newly designed website: http://hingedigital.com

WE Infinity launches with video from Hinge Digital

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Introducing WE Infinity

Waggener Edstrom Communications called on Hinge Digital to design and animate a launch video for WE Infinity, a new data-mining and analytics platform, which shows the social, brand and media impact a story makes in the digital universe.

Check out Hinge Digital’s other projects on their newly designed website: http://hingedigital.com

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