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Fundraising Event for THE WINDING STREAM

A documentary film about America’s first family of country music about to wrap! Benefit for the upcoming documentary film, The Winding Stream – The Carters, the Cashes and the Course of Country Music

The Winding Stream – The Carters, the Cashes and the Course of Country Music – a feature-length documentary about the musical dynasty at the heart of American roots music is almost done. Vancouver, WA producer/director Beth Harrington and her filmmaking team have completed a fine cut of the film and are dashing to the finish line in time for festival season.

An Evening of Shorts by James Westby January 9 at Mississippi Studios

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Wednesday night at Mississippi studios James Westby will be screening a few of his recent shorts at Mississippi Studios on January 9. It’s free to the public so check it out!

Missisippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave
Wednesday, January 9th 8pm
Free Admission

Art of Makeup now registering! Classes begin Jan 28

Art of Makeup Studio for Professional Makeup Artistry is Oregon’s first studio exclusively dedicated to the art, techniques, and business of professional makeup artistry, located in the community of Multnomah Village in Southwest Portland.

We are now accepting enrollment applications for classes beginning January 28, 2013

Art of Makeup classes include:
• Corrective Beauty
• Fashion
• Period Makeup
• Film, TV, Stage
• Hair Styling
• Airbrush Makeup
• Special FX

Day and evening classes available. Space is limited. Availability is on a first come first serve basis.

2 Exciting Classes Starting Week of Jan 14

2 exciting classes are beginning next week at the Northwest Film Center School of Film:

MOVING YOUR PROJECT FORWARD

Taught by Oscar-winning Will Vinton

Get individual consultation and class member coaching support for your animation project.

Topics: bring what you’re already working on or an idea for a short film project; receive group feedback and individual advising for the issues you face, such as: conceptual design and script development, fundraising/budgeting, character, story or performance, technical challenges, post-production, or other challenges; bring in work-in-progress for class critique and one-on-one consultation with instructor.

EOFF2013 Sneak Peek Fundraiser and Pass Sale

With the new year upon us, EOFF is leaning into the winter breeze, buttoning up, and rearing to roll. We are in the process of locking down the best independent film and music the world has to offer. Buckle up Eastern Oregon. It’s going to be an amazing year!

Sneak Peek Fundraiser and Festival Pass Sale!

Join EOFF Wednesday, January 16th from 6-8pm at The Stage Door Theatre (behind the Liberty) in La Grande, Oregon and be the first to get a sneak peek of this year’s film line-up.

New Poster for “Wake Before I Die”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New poster by artist Tom Hodge for the feature film “Wake Before I Die.”

PORTLAND, Oregon (January 4, 2013) The first film Co-Directed by the Brothers Freeman (Cell Count and The Weather Outside) has some new artwork from artist Tom Hodge at The Dude Designs.

“Wake Before I Die” is the story of “Pastor Dan Bennet who moves his family to a small Northwest town and begins to suspect that all might not be as idyllic as he first imagined.

New Fight Performance Classes

This Saturday starts a new block of fight classes to kick off 2013!

The first block of classes is Stick & Weapons of Opportunity. This class is a fantastic intro to weapons work that will open your eyes to a plethora of possibilities. The basis of this class is in Filipino escrima and kali, and we’ll explore how this kind of fight work plays on film and television. If you’re experienced in weapons work for film, we’ve still got plenty to explore – you will grow, regardless of skill level.

Oregon made feature film Cell Count now available on VOD.

PORTLAND, Oregon (December 20th, 2012) The feature film “Cell Count” made it’s World Premiere at this year’s Fantaspoa Film Festival in Brazil on May 20th. Since then it has gone to the Macabro Film Festival in Mexico, the Montreal HorrorFest in Canada, Sitges Film Festival in Spain, Rojo Sangre Film Festival in Argentina, Montevideo Fantastico Film Festival in Uruguay, Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in the USA, and Celluloid Screams in the UK. Director Todd E. Freeman won Best Director and Actor Robert McKeehen won Best Actor at the Montevideo Fantastico Film Festival.

Amazon Announces Six Pilots, Time Warner Invests Big in Maker Studios. Has Digital Content Finally Arrived?

In the entertainment trade websites today there were two big announcements that might indicate that we have finally reached the point where digital content is now a major player in the entertainment industry. In today’s Variety it was reported that Time Warner has led an investment round of $36million for a 25% stake in Maker Studios. Maker is one of the leading web based Entertainment outlets, and this investment round puts the valuation of the company at $144million. That’s real money people!

UPDATED AGAIN- Series Finale of “Leverage” Airs on Christmas Night 10:00 PST What Surprises are Coming?

UPDATED AGAIN – It was just announced that after five great seasons (four in Oregon) “Leverage” is coming to an end on Christmas night. We’ve been so blessed to have four great seasons in Oregon and we look forward to future TNT and Electric Entertainment productions in the future. For now though, we’ll look to enjoy the series finale on Christmas night.

UPDATED- Here is a link to Beth Riesgraf talking about the sesaon (or is it the series?) finale.

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