The Confluence

History of Animation: A Cultural Perspective

The Northwest Film Center’s School of Film is offering HISOTRY OF ANIMATION: A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE this spring.

How has animation shaped cultural sensibilities of different societies? What does the international evolution of animation look like and how did a cultural context define that evolution?

The course will cover these topics and more, registration open now!

HISTORY OF ANIMATION: A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Inst: Laura Di Trapani

This informal enrichment class for film lovers and students of cinema (self-appointed or formally enrolled) examines the rich history and evolution of animation from an international perspective, discussing its inventors and innovators and placing a wide range of animators and their works within a cultural context.

Portland Feature Film “Cell Count” World Premiere May 20th

Portland Feature Film “Cell Count” has World Premiere and closes the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Porto Alegre Brazil.

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PORTLAND, Oregon (March 05, 2012) – The Fantaspoa Film Festival announced today that the Portland feature film “Cell Count,” made by Polluted Pictures in association with Wooden Frame Productions, is the Closing Night Film at their Festival in May. Last year’s Closing Night Film, “Stakeland”, was later released in theaters in 2011 by IFC Films and Dark Sky Films.

Cell Count was the third of three feature films shot in 2011 from Wooden Frame Productions that utilized the Oregon state iOPIF rebate program which provides rebates of 20% of goods and services and 10% of Oregon labor for films produced by Oregon filmmakers who spend a minimum of $75,000 but not more than $750,000 on their project.

Update: Plans for 2012 OPIF Tax Credit Auction Announced – New Information

Initial Plans for Film Tax Credit Auction Announced

As we get closer to the OPIF tax credit auction, new information on the Film Tax Credit Auction is available. Below is the most current details on how this auction will proceed:

The total amount of tax credits that will be auctioned is $6million

·Auction to begin (via a website) on July 9, 2012 at 9:00am. The bidder can bid to purchase a film tax credit at a rate no lower than 95%.

John Frame: Three Fragments of a Lost Tale

Presented by the Portland Art Museum
FEB 18 – MAY 27, 2012

From now through May 27th, make sure to check out the imaginative art of John Frame on display at the Portland Art Museum. Art, music, poetry, and film come together in his ambitious project The Tale of the Crippled Boy. The end goal of this ongoing project is a feature-length collection of animated and live film vignettes. Three Fragments of a Lost Tale presents his work on this project during the past five years, including installations of his handmade sculptures, stage sets, still photographs, music score, and animated film vignettes.

Lot’s of Good Oregon Film and Television Available this Weekend

We’ve been highlighting mostly the fine Oregon based television work that has been airing recently but this weekend not only is there “Grimm” and “Portlandia” but the feature film “Gone” produced by Lakeshore Entertainment premieres in theaters this weekend. Harold Phillips’ blog Oregon Film And TV Dollars put up a good post about the film yesterday. He also found a great clip from star Amanda Seyfried’s appearance on Jay Leno where she brought Voodoo Donuts to the show. Here’s the clip with her raving about Voodoo and Portland.

Online Auction Benefitting the NW Film Center

For the NW Film Center, life goes on after the Portland International Film Festival. In addition to PIFF the Film Center host year-round exhibition screenings as well as educational outreach programs, workshops, and production classes and we do all of this as a non-profit.

The Film Center depends on grants, sponsorship support, our loyal members & volunteers, as well as fundraising to make everything we

do happen. With this in mind we want to invite you to keep the bidding going with our Online Auction.

“What is Television” – March 1-3 hosted by University of Oregon

Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (POWFest) Announces 2012 Program Highlights

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Portland, Oregon – February 15, 2012 – The Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (a.k.a. POWFest) is excited to announce the programming highlights of our upcoming 5^th Anniversary festival scheduled to take place March 8 – 11, 2012 at the Hollywood Theatre.

As the only film festival in Portland exclusively dedicated to showcasing films directed by women and encouraging women to take on the director’s chair; we are one of only a handful of festivals in the U.S. dedicated to women-directed film.

Mercer/Lunden Films: Portland Purveyors of Short Subject Cinema.

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Mercer/Lunden Films is the collaboration of Ben Mercer and Josh Lunden, two recent Oregon transplants who moved to Portland to experience the burgeoning indie film community. Since we had no local reputation or financial backing when we arrived, we decided to test crowd-funding models to raise money for two short films. We successfully raised over $2,000 and went into production with local actors and crew. We also began working with several community groups such as the PDX Film Collective. Along with the films, we’ve also produced a number of behind-the-scenes and technical videos to help illustrate the process of making short films on a limited budget.

Northwest Film Finance Symposium

Want to know what Investors are looking for? Where in the World do we find Feature Distribution? The latest on Digital Distribution? The most effective types of Marketing?

Get the inside scoop on the indie film industry from a leading Hollywood executive and more than a dozen local experts when the 2012 NW Film Finance Symposium convenes on Friday, March 9, and Saturday, March 10. Presented by OMPA and POWFest, this year’s event will feature Stephanie Slack, Senior Vice President, Co-Productions & Acquisitions for MarVista Entertainment in Los Angeles.

Recent Posts

Portland Feature Film “Cell Count” has World Premiere and closes the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Porto Alegre Brazil.

Initial Plans for Film Tax Credit Auction Announced

Presented by the Portland Art Museum FEB 18 – MAY 27, 2012

Presented by the Portland Art Museum
FEB 18 – MAY 27, 2012