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Action Essentials for Actors March 24th!

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This is the final reminder for the upcoming Action Essentials for Actors workshop, Sunday, March 24th!

With more film incentives for Oregon, producers are looking at Portland to shoot upcoming shows and films, most of which require actors to perform their own basic action. But the actor MUST know the essentials.

In class, we’ll cover the action essentials actors need to walk onto set, giving you an edge over the competition. We’ll break down, recreate, and shoot and action scene from NBC’s hit show, Grimm.

Cinema Pacific Details Announced – Event is April 17-21 in Eugene and Portland

Cinema Pacific film festival announces 2013 program featuring films from Mexico, Singapore and the U.S. West Coast

EUGENE, Ore. – (March 13, 2013) – The fourth annual University of Oregon Cinema Pacific film festival features a wide array of films, exhibitions, receptions and performances opening April 17 and running through April 21, 2013 in both Eugene and Portland.

This year’s featured guest is renowned Mexican screenwriter and director Guillermo Arriaga (“Amores Perros”, “Babel”). He will participate in the festival’s Focus: Mexico section.

Jumpercut Goes To SxSW: Monday

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We’ve been having quite a week here at SXSW! It is absolutely insane how DENSE this event is. Everyone taking part in SX is just going about their own business and probably only hitting up about 15% of the events available to badge holders, ourselves included.
On Monday, we split up our 5 man team to cover more ground and go about our networking, promoting, and general experiencing (and capturing) of SXSW. here is a link to our vlog activity: http://d1u7aelnb7b19r.cloudfront.net/21375560-1417-47e0-a91d-1047800db558.mp4

JumperCut SXSW Sunday VLOG n BLOG

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Sunday was an interesting beast of a day all its own. We were all so caught up in meetings and panels all day! Good problems to have. One of the heads of Vimeo gave a talk with the creator of Star Wars: Uncut and both stopped by for demonstrations of our software with great curiosity. 🙂 I was personally editing video as it arrived in our dropbox from a graphic designer from one of our clients for most of the day, but still managed to run into Marc Maron near the PBS party and saw Paul Walker at the Fandango Lounge.

Further Details of AIFF’s eMerge Transmedia Showcase Announced

The AIFF branches out with exciting new programming to add to our audience’s festival experience with the eMerge Transmedia Showcase. Created to showcase new forms of digital and interactive storytelling, the program has been developed in collaboration with Southern Oregon University’s Emerging Media and Digital Arts (EMDA) program. Below is more details on this year’s program events. Sponsors of eMerge this year include The Governor’s Office of Film and Television, Project A, Second Story, the Portland Incubator Experiment, and the Technology Association of Oregon.

JumperCut At SXSW Saturday!

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It’s Sunday morning and since the rest of the JumperCut team is still sleeping (the change in the clocks wasn’t kind to us), I thought I would take this opportunity to write a little bit about our experience yesterday and so far at South by Southwest. The JumperCut team members are all newbies to SxSW, and so we’re just settling into what is an enormous event, where it seems as though the entire city of austin is nothing but orange, blue, silver, black and green laniards and badges, lines of people around the block for various events, and the spotting of a movie star here and there.

JumperCut SXSW: It Begins

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So here we are at SXSW! Phil picked up Amy, Lukas, and I in the evening and drove straight downtown for our badges. I knew this was going to be busy and exciting but this truly is amazing. Everyone is here to talk, learn, communicate, meet new people and showcase what new work they are ready to bring to the world stage and we fit right in.

At the end of the night we all met up and talked about the people we’d met and our different interactions with the city as it buzzes with all of this fantastic positive energy.

EOFF 2013 Announces Winners!

EOFF IS PLEASED AS PUNCH TO ANNOUNCE ITS 2013 WINNERS

We chose to honor this incredible selection of films for their brave, innovative filmmaking, and unique, compelling stories. This year’s award-winners moved EOFF audiences and connected with the festival’s artist-driven, DIY ethos. Hats off to this collection of filmmakers for making such powerful films with such minimal resources. We are honored to screen your work.

BEST FEATURE = ONLY THE YOUNG
BEST SHORT = (NOTES ON) BIOLOGY
BEST PERFORMANCE = HUGO ARMSTRONG, OK GOOD
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY = NANDAN RAO, THE INTERNATIONAL SIGN FOR CHOKING
MOST LIKELY TO WIN A HOT DOG EATING CONTEST = FINDING TRUELOVE

THAT’S A WRAP

EOFF2013 was hands down our best year to date!

JumperCut Heads to SXSW!

Moviemaking has always been a collaborative process, and the need for creative production of light and sound aren’t going anywhere, but the capabilities of iPhone cameras are improving phenomenally with each new version. As now we know, some filmmakers have dabbled with creating movies just with their phones and tablets, and mobile film festivals are popping up everywhere. However, the true advantage these devices offer to storytelling is their instant connect-ability. We’ve seen Twitter and CNN iReport influence world politics and this social sharing is amazing, but where’s the collaboration?

Considering Switching to LEDs For Your (Green) Production Lighting Needs?

Right here in Oregon, tucked away in Hillsboro since 2007, is one of the leading manufacturers of intelligent LED lighting instruments for the film and video production industry. Meet Zylight LLC, they build “easy-to-use LED lighting systems based on state-of-the-art technologies, producing fully calibrated bright white light, as well as any color – forever eliminating gels.” Zylight was formed in 2004 to bring “new levels of efficiency, flexibility, and creativity to the realm of film and video lighting”.

It is gratifying seeing more and more suppliers switching to LED’s as it’s about as green as it gets when it comes to lighting.

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