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First place will be awarded $15,000, second $10,000, and third will receive $7,500 at producer’s discretion.

This is an unprecedented opportunity to get your concepts on a nationwide platform in hopes of promoting your media and to get your content exposed!!

“Portlandia” Nominated for Two Emmys

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in the Season 3 finale episode of "Portlandia." (Frank DiMarco/IFC) — Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in the Season 3 finale episode of “Portlandia.” (Frank DiMarco/IFC)

It’s exciting to see IFC’s season 3 “Portlandia” sketch comedy show nominated once again for two Emmys for “Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series” (writers, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel and Bill Oakley) and “Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series” (Jonathan Krisel). Oregonian reporter, Kristi Turnquist’s report is here. The 65th Emmys award show takes place at CBS, Sunday September 22nd.

The Impact of Oregon Film

Hi All– I’m the new intern here at the Governor’s Office of Film & Television. I love all things film and Oregon, as well as baking and studying communication theory. If you want to talk about the entertainment industry, I’m practically a walking IMDb.

Have a good one! -Katlyn Prentice

You can learn quite a bit by the clothes you wear. Walking around my campus in Boston, sporting my new Portlandia sweatshirt, I learned a lot about the impact that Oregon filmmaking has on rest of the country.

Portland 48 Hour Film Project Returns August 2 – 4!!

That’s right, the original, best, and biggest time based festival/competition is set to take over an unsuspecting Stumptown again, and registration is now open! Just go to www.48hourfilm.com/portland_oregon to register a team today!

Filmmaking is August 2 -4

The world premieres of all the short films are August 7 & 8 at The Hollywood Theatre.

AND, on August 21, we will present “The Best of Portland”. This screening will showcase the creme de la creme of this year’s PDX 48HFP.

In case you are unfamiliar with the PDX 48HFP, On Friday, August 2nd, teams of filmmakers will draw their genre from The Cruel Hat of Fate, and each team will be assigned the Character, Prop, and Line of Dialogue for this year.

Film/TV Production Industry Celebrates Legislative Success Friday

Oregon’s film and television production Industry prepares for expansion thanks to 67% increase in funds designed to recruit projects to Oregon – but first, a party with performance from Oregon blues legend Curtis Salgado.

“We throw our fundraiser for OMPA and the Media Arts Education scholarships every year at this time. This turns out to be a particularly good year to celebrate,” says Tom McFadden, Executive Director of the Oregon Media Production Association (OMPA), a group which lobbied for the expansion.

OPIF is Open for Applications – $700,000 is Available For New Projects Now

With the passing of HB 3367 and on to the Governor’s Desk for signature, the Oregon Production Investment Fund now has a little breathing room to consider new projects. The expansion of OPIF (extra $4million a year) will not go into effect until early October but in the meantime the fund does have approximately $700,000 available for new projects. We have received three applications already and are reviewing those applications but we would like to open up the application process for the next week and consider all applications submitted between July 1 and July 19 at the same time.

“Back O’Er Oregon” – A Musician’s Journey through Oregon’s State Parks

Musician Slater Smith Embarks on a Quest to Visit all of Oregon’s State Parks While Shooting His Music Video

Slater Smith, frontman for the band The Weather Machine, began his quest to visit every state park in Oregon over the summer while shooting his music video for the band’s song “Back O’Er Oregon”. The video will be a cinematic homage to Oregon’s beautiful and diverse state parks. While planning this project Slater connected with Oregon’s Governor’s Office of Film and Television (Oregon Film) and the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, and explored how to expand the project beyond just the music video.

Oregon Legislature Round-Up – Transformational for Oregon’s Film, TV, and Digital Media Industry

On Monday July 8, the 2013 Oregon Legislative session wrapped up, and it has proven to be a landmark legislative session. On Monday morning the House concurred with the amendments the Senate passed for HB 3367 over the weekend resulting in an increase annual allocation for the Oregon Production Investment Fund tax credit. The allocation in OPIF will go from $6million a year to $10million a year. Other important legislation that will positively affect Oregon’s film, television, and digital media industry includes HB 5028 which allows the Oregon Innovation Council to fund the Oregon Story Board, and SB 836 which exempts film, tv and theartical hair, and make-up professionals from certain cosmetology regulations.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / #EOFF2014

EOFF invites filmmakers to submit work for consideration in the 5th Eastern Oregon Film Festival, held in La Grande, Oregon February 20-22, 2014.

>> SUBMIT YOUR FILM

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, and many more!

Where I travel to the end of Oregon to watch little seen Sophia Takal movies, throw hatchets and watch the blackest of art movies with an all white audience.

New Grassroots Prefontaine Documentary

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33983651[/vimeo]

After two movies and a documentary, what more can there be said about Steve Prefontaine? Plenty.

We are Pirate films, a group of creatives from Marshfield High School whom have taken up the mission to create a Coos Bay based, Steve Prefontaine documentary. You may read more on the project here: prespeople.com and view our Vimeo trailer (above).

We are in the post production stage and will be kicking off a Kickstarter campaign soon. If interested in the project, send your inquiries to; [email protected]

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Musician Slater Smith Embarks on a Quest to Visit all of Oregon’s State Parks While Shooting His Music Video

EOFF invites filmmakers to submit work for consideration in the 5th Eastern Oregon Film Festival, held in La Grande, Oregon February 20-22, 2014.

>> SUBMIT YOUR FILM