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Open Signal Presents – Lights, Camera, Connection: Real to Reel

Join Open Signal for a day of collaboration and opportunity with Portland’s community of nonfiction media makers! Saturday, June 29, 11a-3p.

Lights, Camera, Connection: Real to Reel will showcase the collaborative spirit of Portland’s community of nonfiction media makers. Our city is full of independent production companies and freelance creators working in advocacy, broadcast, documentary, event, sports, journalism, and many other fields of content creation.

We invite you to mingle in community and explore the wide range of creative opportunities in nonfiction media, connect with local professionals, lay the groundwork for future partnerships, and launch your ideas.

“Criminal” Series Adds Directors Fleck & Boden

Captain Marvel writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are set to direct the first four episodes of Prime Video‘s “Criminal,” a drama based on the multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

Criminal was ordered to series in January and is currently in pre-production in Portland, Oregon. Brubaker, who penned the pilot script, co-showruns with crime fiction author Jordan Harper (Hightown).

The TV show is described as an interlocking universe of crime stories. As Brubaker explained to Deadline in a 2019 interview, “Criminal tells the interweaving saga of several generations of families tied together by the crimes and murders of the past.”

Desert Island Studios Hosts First “Level Up” Workshop

Desert Island Studios in Portland hosted its first Level Up Workshop last weekend. According to the hosts and the attendees, the event was a tremendous success.

With these Level Up Workshops, DIS strives to provide educational content that will be relevant to a variety of experience levels, accompanied by targeted outreach meant to entice participants for whom the material is most appropriate.

In the wake of the pandemic and recent strikes, DIS feels it’s an important time to equip future generations of media makers with the invaluable tools and knowledge they will need to be successful in their careers.

“Let’s Have Kids” Announces Cast

The Hollywood Reporter announced that Karen Gillian and Zoë Chao will star in Let’s Have Kids!, a comedy from MRC.

Adam Sztykiel, the screenwriter of DC movie Black Adam who previously tackled the topic of giving birth with Due Date, will make his directorial debut.

LHK centers on lifelong best friends Emma and Phoebe, played by Gillan and Chao, who decide to try to have their first babies at the same time so they can navigate the great unknown of motherhood together.

Inspiring the New Generation of Filmmakers

George Fox University is hosting a Film Production Institute for high school students this summer at its campus in Newberg. Oregon Film community members are entitled to a $500 scholarship for their children and dependents. This is in appreciation for Oregon Film’s collaboration with George Fox to use the Newberg campus as a regular filming location.

Professor Alex Chung, an alumnus of the Sundance Film Festival, who has written, directed and produced numerous projects, optioned several screenplays, and has crewed on dozens of features and short films in varying capacities, will lead the institute.

“The Night Always Comes” Confirms Oregon Production

“Napoleon” star Vanessa Kirby will reunite with The Crown’s Benjamin Caron on a movie based on Portland author Willy Vlautin’s 2021 novel “The Night Always Comes,” about a working-class woman in the Pacific Northwest who embarks on a 24-hour quest to call in old debts and raise enough money to keep a roof over her head.

“The Night Always Comes” film is based on a screenplay by Seattle-based screenwriter Sarah Conradt, whose credits include “Mothers’ Instinct” and “50 States of Fright.”

MetroEast Presents Food Foray!

We are thrilled to invite you to a very special screening of the first three episodes of MetroEast’s original docu series, FOOD FORAY!

Imagine Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown but at local grocery stores with a host named Jess. Each episode takes us on a food journey through east Portland while we learn about our immigrant neighbors. The first three episodes explore cuisines and stories from the Republic of Georgia, Oaxaca Mexico and Myanmar (formerly Burma).

Come celebrate with us on April 20th from 2-5PM at MetroEast Community Media 829 NE 8th St Gresham, OR.

#OregonMade “Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill” Released April 12

The documentary co-directed by Portland based director Brian Lindstrom and Andy Brown is being released in theaters and on streaming platforms on April 12.

This is the never-before-told story of folk-rock icon Judee Sill, who in just two years went from living in a car to appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone. The documentary charts her troubled adolescence through her meteoric rise in the music world and early tragic death. Featuring Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Fleet Foxes, David Geffen, and more.

Cinema Unbound Awards Coming June 21

Portland Art Museum and PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow have set a date for the 2024 Cinema Unbound Awards. Friday, June 21, 2024

This fifth annual event will feature a dinner, party, and fundraiser honoring world-class media artists and filmmakers pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

Event and table sponsorship opportunities available. For more information, please visit pam.to/2024-CUA or contact Harper Brokaw-Falbo at [email protected]

Watch for more information about individual tickets later this Spring.

Hollywood Theatre at PDX is Looking for #OregonMade Short Films

The Hollywood Theatre, Portland’s premiere modern-historic movie house, is looking for short films to be screened at their location in the PDX airport for our Summer 2024 program. If you or someone you know has a short film that fits the parameters presented below, consider submitting your film!

To be considered for screening at the Hollywood Theatre @ PDX, all submissions must meet the following criteria:

Must be created by a local/regional artist or concern issues relating to Oregon or the Pacific Northwest
Must be appropriate for a general audience (G-rated).

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