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We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival Spins Reels August 17th & 18th

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Travel to Baker City on August 17th for the third annual We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival and enjoy 2 days of short film programming at the historic Eltrym Theatre.

August 17th & 18th

Screenings at 3PM & 7PM

Tickets:
$8 per Screening or
$20 for a festival pass

Available at:
Zephyr Bakery
Eltrym Theater

The Festival allows aspiring and professional filmmakers the chance to interact with Baker City’s lively arts community.

Local film lovers took to review the 112 entries for this year’s festival and selected the 53 films that are now coined “Official Selections” of WLES for 2012

Download / View / Print the 2012 Program

WLES is funded in part by a grant from the Baker County Cultural Coalition and Baker County Tourism, with the proceeds from the festival benefiting the Baker High School Film Arts Club and the Baker Art Guild’s monthly Art Film screenings “Thursday Art Night”.

MORE FILM FESTIVALS FOR “CELL COUNT”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Feature film Cell Count has UK Premiere at Celluloid Screams and Canadian Premiere at the Montreal HorrorFest as a part of the Montreal Comic Con.

PORTLAND, Oregon (August 8, 2012) The feature film “Cell Count” premiered on May 20th at the Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival and is now an Official Selection of this year’s Celluloid Screams Film Festival in the UK as well as the Montreal HorrorFest in Canada.

Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival, October 26-28, is a three-day celebration of the best in classic and contemporary horror cinema.

The Free Box gets a facelift.

I finally completed the process of uploading ALL the Free Box episodes to Vimeo presenting them in the highest quality available for the first time on the net. The Free Box is a web series I directed 27 episodes for 3 years in Portland producing it with borrowed equipment and foodstamps. The original Portlandia! Check it out again or for the first time. -Jon
https://vimeo.com/user4781378

THE FREE BOX#16 “Vomit Milk” from The Free Box on Vimeo.

ParaNorman Gearing up for August Premiere

We are getting closer and closer to ParaNorman’s August 17th premiere, and there are all kinds of exciting things going on around the country and around the net as the anticipation builds. This is a brief run-down of some of the things going on in the next two weeks.

If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you’ve probably already seen one of the two ParaNorman Olympic spots; “Champions Will Rise” & “Nailed It”. If not (or you just want to see them again) you can view them on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623288/videogallery

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes donates autographed portrait to benefit The Right Brain Initiative

The giclee print is available in an eBay auction through Sunday, August 5. http://r.ebay.com/iNGdP7

Nationally renowned filmmaker Todd Haynes is the subject of a one-of-a-kind portrait that posted today on eBay. This ten-day auction supports a good cause: Haynes donated the giclee print to benefit The Right Brain Initiative’s arts education programming in Portland, Oregon area schools. The print is signed by both Haynes and the portrait’s artist, Steve Cohn. Cohn is brother-in-law to Haynes, and works under the pseudonym Jasper Marks.

Oregon Film Interns Spotlight Local Vendors

Oregon Film Interns at Shop Adorn — Oregon Film intern Sabrina Gimenez interviewing Shop Adorn. Photo Courtesy @ShopAdorn via Twitter

It’s been a busy summer for us interns at Oregon Film compared to what most people our age are doing right now: swimming, camping, and vacationing in general. As much as we’d like to take time off and just relax or sleep the summer away, we’ve been filming videos all summer long, working hard to show the people of Oregon, and the legislature, how the film industry has quietly and stealthily been successful both in-front of and behind the cameras.

Cell Count Portland Premiere

Oregon made Sci-Fi Thriller Cell Count to be released in Portland on November 2nd.

(Portland, OR – July 31, 2012) Living Room Theaters will be showing the sci-fi horror film festival favorite, Cell Count from Portland filmmaker Todd E. Freeman.

The film, which had its world premiere at the 2012 Fantaspoa Film Festival in Brazil, is the story of Russell Carpenter, a man who reluctantly admits his wife Sadie into an experimental treatment facility for her life-threatening disease. While locked in this prison-like surrounding, they along with 6 others are unknowingly subjected to a cure that might just be worse than the disease itself.

2nd OPIF Tax Credit Auction to Happen September 17-19

In July with the cooperation of Oregon’s Department of Revenue we conducted our first ever auction for the Oregon Production Investment Fund tax credits. By the time the auction was completed we had more bids for the tax credits than what was available. The second stage of the auction required those who submitted a bid to turn in a cashier’s check or money order no later than July 20. Now that DOR has collected all the money, we have determined that there are still credits available.

Cell Count picked up for distribution by FilmBuff.

FILMBUFF TAKES ON “CELL COUNT”

Sci-Fi Thriller to be released on digital platforms November, 2012

(New York, NY – July 27, 2012) FilmBuff has come onboard to digitally distribute the sci-fi horror film festival favorite, Cell Count from filmmaker Todd E. Freeman (Two Fisted and Pray for Hell), starring Robert McKeehen (“Leverage”), Haley Talbot (“Grimm”), Ted Rooney (“Boardwalk Empire”) and Daniel Baldwin (Grey Gardens).

Space available for Special FX Makeup Class this Monday!

Limited space available for an incredible opportunity to be taught by top special fx artist Christina Kortum in a small four student sized classroom. Class starts Monday July 30th – Fri Aug. 3rd from 9am-3pm at Art of Makeup in Multnomah Village in SW Portland. Christina will teach bruises, cuts, wounds, scars, bullet holes, burns, small prosthetic application and removal, sickness, track marks, dirt and grime, tattoos and more.

The class is being offered at a last minute 15% off discount for only $595 for the entire week plus supplies.

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