The Confluence

Coinciding with the opening of Portland Art Museum’s campus transformation in November, PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow announces a reimagined yearly festival experience like no other, PLUS PLUS. Through this additive, ever-evolving celebration of artists who dissolve boundaries and defy easy categorization, this year’s lineup of ten groundbreaking media arts premieres and one-night-only events will take place over two weekends—November 13–23, 2025—at both the PAM CUT Tomorrow Theater and Portland Art Museum.

PLUS PLUS is the festival of Tomorrow—a world-class gathering in Portland that further amplifies and expands PAM CUT’s vision where storytelling, tech, media artists and creative communities collide to explore new ideas and form new audiences charting fresh ways to move our city and our world forward.

Portland Events & Film Office are excited to bring back the Lunch & Learn series with topics including: grant writing, sponsorships, and event production and film basics. With each Lunch & Learn, you can expect time to connect with other folks in the industry, guest speakers, and lunch!

Their first one this month is on event and film permitting. Come with ALL your questions about permitting, the who, what and how on how to make your event and film permitting process as smooth as possible.  

Women In Film Portland is thrilled to announce the return of our Educate/Incubate program!

WIF-PDX’s Educate & Incubate program is designed to help folks with historically marginalized access to the film industry (BIPOC, LGBTQ, disabled, women, people experiencing poverty) get their projects made and support career advancement in the film, media, and entertainment industry. Our goal is to help storytellers bring their work to fruition, ultimately diversifying our culture’s media. This diversification of stories is at the heart of WIF-PDX’s mission and belief that we will only see clearly when everyone is allowed to offer their point of view.

Oregon Film’s Portland offices are officially moving!

During the month of September, Oregon Film will be relocating its offices to the growing Hollywood Film District.

From October 1 we will be located at 4035 NE Sandy Blvd, Suite 216.

Oregon Film now joins a growing number of media focused companies and organizations in that neighborhood which has been the home of the Hollywood Theatre for more than a century.

Showing at the Hollywood Theatre from September 24 to November 12, the Portland Latin American Film Festival (PDXLAFF) serves the community as a non-profit cultural promoter under the guidance of the Hollywood Theatre. We are dedicated to showcasing perspectives of Latin American culture through an exploration of Latin film and increasing the visibility of Latin American cinema locally. PDXLAFF presents films with universal appeal that can be enjoyed by native Spanish, Portuguese, and English speakers, and other lovers of the Latin culture.

Prolific Portland-based producers Neil Kopp and Anish Savjani recently won an Emmy for “Rebel Ridge” as Best TV Movie. Kopp and Savjani’s production company, filmscience, has produced many award winning features including the acclaimed Sundance and Netflix hit “I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore,” and Kelly Reichardt’s most recent film “The Mastermind.”

Formed in 2005, filmscience has produced over 20 features that have been nominated for numerous Independent Spirit Awards and screened at festivals around the world, including Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Toronto, Sundance and Telluride.