The Confluence

Featured Oregon Location: Yaquina Head (via GigaPan)

Oregon has many, viable location “looks” and not always what one might expect. The more obvious ones we have in abundance; rivers, mountains, trees, coast, lakes and farmland. Less known are; high desert, western style towns, sand dunes, gritty urban areas, vineyards, canyons and volcanic lava. We will be highlighting a specific Oregon location in each quarterly newsletter, and have partnered with Oregon company, GigaPan, by using their robotic mount technology to take detailed and vivid panoramic location pictures.

Our featured location this time is the Yaquina Head Lighthouse.

OSF Costume Inventory: a Great Asset for Film & TV Projects Everywhere

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, southern Oregon) is well known for it’s high caliber theatre performances. Lesser know is the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Costume Rentals. OSFCR is a full-service costume rental facility that features around 100,000 costumer pieces designed and made in-house. OSFCR has been renting costumes since 2004 but only started renting to the film and TV market for the past 6 years. They have been successful, with many repeat customers, from primetime shows on NBC, ABC, HBO, TNT, as well as many feature films.

Film-Oriented “Live Wire” Event Sat. April 20 at 8pm

A unique and entertaining event happens Saturday April 20th at the Portland Art Museum’s Whitsell Auditorium. Cost? Only $12 and a can of food for the Oregon Food Bank. I guarantee you will love it. And if you’re into movies and comedy, you’ll love it more. It’s part of the upcoming Food for Thought festival with proceeds going to the Oregon Food Bank. If you’ve never experienced Portland radio’s Live Wire!, you’re in for a treat. I’ve seen their shtick several times.

Cinema Pacific & Northwest Film Center to Screen “The Burning Plain” with director Guillermo Arriaga

Director Guillermo Arriaga is returning to Oregon, where he filmed “The Burning Plain” in Portland and Coos Bay in 2008. The film featured Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence in her first starring role, alongside Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger. At the Bijou Cinemas and Northwest Film Center, Arriaga will present The Burning Plain and, only at the Bijou, the film he wrote and Tommy Lee Jones directed, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005). While in Oregon, Arriaga will also give the Bartolomé de las Casas Lecture in Latin American Studies at the UO and a public talk at the Oak Hill School.

Upcoming Workshop: Film Composing

The NW Film Center School of Film presents a new workshop:

INSIDE THE WORLD OF FILM COMPOSING
Saturday, April 20th, 2013 from 10am to 4pm

Taught by Mark Orton, founding member of the Tin Hat acoustic chamber ensemble, who has written music for films such as EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED, THE GOOD GIRL, and BUCK. Orton also composes for dance, circus, and radio drama, giving him a well-rounded wisdom that he is eager to share.

Topics: overview of the instructor’s film palette and style; types of film scores (original, licensed, public domain, live captured, sound design); the film music department staff (who does what); film music budgeting; what happens before a composer is hired (the temp score, the cue sheet, demos, typical contracts, and budgets); how to work with a composer (the spotting session, what a composer needs technically, the adjusted cue sheet, giving notes, film music vocabulary, the illusive locked picture); licensing music (different types of licenses, understanding publishing, obtaining a license, different types of rights scenarios, how to avoid “the man,” re-purposing non-film music, filing a finalized cue sheet); clips from a variety of films will be used throughout to illustrate the material; interaction with the instructor is highly encouraged.

Eclectic Collection of Events Happening at Cinema Pacific This Year

When Richard Herskowitz started Cinema Pacific he conciously decided not to call it a film festival so that a wide array of events could be included. This year’s version of Cinema Pacific is taking that concept to a new level.

One event that is sure to have some thoughtful discussion is the presentation on Open Space Documentary. Helen Di Michiel and Patricia Zimmerman will be discussing examples of media organizations and projects that exemplify the spirit of open space documentary.

Polluted Pictures teams up with Vitamin M to produce “Deep Dark.”

PORTLAND, Oregon (April 12, 2013) After taking the feature film “Cell Count” to film festivals all over the world in 2012 and seeing the film through to distribution, it is now Polluted Pictures profound pleasure to announce they will co-produce the feature film “Deep Dark” together with Vitamin M in the Summer ’13.

“Deep Dark” is the story of a failed sculptor who discovers a strange talking hole in the wall. The hole has the power to fulfill his wildest dreams or it might just become his worst nightmare.

Roy W. Dean Film Grant Now Open

The Summer Roy Dean Film grant gives $1000.00 in cash and about $30,000.00 in goods and services from top industry companies. We want films that are unique and make a contribution to society. If your film fits, please consider entering.

Full guidelines and application are online here: http://www.fromtheheartproductions.com/grants.shtml

Carole Dean [email protected]

Eastern Oregon Film Festival 2014

ANNOUNCING THE 2014 FESTIVAL DATES

Mark your calendars for FEBRUARY 20-22, 2014 for the 5th Annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival in beautiful La Grande, Oregon.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A FILM FESTIVAL

EOFF provides a quality of life component to our valley that is essential in attracting visitors, professionals, and businesses to the Grande Ronde Valley– in addition to stoking community passion for arts and culture. The band of volunteers that have worked tirelessly to bring this exciting, educational, and dynamic weekend of independent film and music have already rolled up their sleeves in preparation for a landmark 5th year event to be held February 20-22, 2014.

AIFF Hosts Successful eMerge Transmedia Showcase

This past weekend the 2013 Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF) hosted its first eMerge Tansmedia Showcase (sponsored by Oregon Film, Intel, SOU, Project A, Second Story, PIE, and Technology Association of Oregon). In simplest terms, it was an opportunity for festival goers to discuss, experience and participate in the future of storytelling. As technology continues to evolve, the ways in which stories can be told are evolving with it. The lines between technology, film, photography, music, performance art, graphic arts, and gaming are becoming less and less visible.

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The NW Film Center School of Film presents a new workshop:

INSIDE THE WORLD OF FILM COMPOSING Saturday, April 20th, 2013 from 10am to 4pm

ANNOUNCING THE 2014 FESTIVAL DATES

IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A FILM FESTIVAL

INSIDE THE WORLD OF FILM COMPOSING
Saturday, April 20th, 2013 from 10am to 4pm