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Movie Night At Rejuvenation

A fundraiser for p:ear

Sunday September 18, 6:00pm – 9:00 pm

In Rejuvenation’s salvage lot

Sunday September 18th
6:00pm – 9:00 pm
Rejuvenation’s salvage lot
1100 SE Grand Ave PDX, OR 97214
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Join us for a night of local short films shown under the stars! Bring chairs, blankets, and your film-loving friends to our salvage lot for good fun and great fundraising.

See short films by local filmmakers (maybe even yours!) on the big screen while sampling some of Portland’s best food and drink – all in the name of helping p:ear, Portland’s premier mentoring program for homeless teens.

“Oregon’s Got Talent” Friday at Indent Studios

OMPA welcomes the Creative Conference and celebrates actors with piano-bar party at Indent. Artwork by Arnold Pander.

OMPA welcomes the Creative Conference with party and Health Care panel for creatives

OMPA welcomes the Creative Conference with the 2^nd annual “Oregon’s Got Talent” event at Indent Studios on Friday night, September 16^th. OMPA is a trade group for professionals in Oregon’s commercial, film, television and new media production business, and has been a supporter of the Creative Conference since its inception, as the event promotes Oregon’s broad creative industry.

“Portlandia” wins an Emmy for Costumes

Today the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced that Amanda Needham and Niki Dimitras from “Portlandia” won an Emmy for best Costumes in a Variety or Music Program. We picked up the story from Kristi Turnquist’s post today in the Oregonian. Amanda and Niki won the Emmy for their costume design on the episode titled “Farm” which I believe was the premiere episode of the first season (you know the one with Colin the chicken). Congratulations to Amanda and Niki and the entire cast and crew of “Portlandia”.

LAIKA Acquires Rights to Develop Colin Meloy’s and Carson Ellis’ “Wildwood”

Today LAIKA announced it has optioned the film rights to the recently released novel “Wildwood”. The novel was written by Decemberists front man Colin Meloy with the book illustrations done by Carson Ellis. This announcement is more proof that Oregon’s creative industry is in full swing on many different levels and now those entities are collaborating. The novel is the first of a planned three books set in an alternative version of Portland focusing on Forest Park. LAIKA’s announcement appeared in this Variety article.

LAIKA Acquires Rights to Develop Colin Meloy’s and Carson Ellis’ “Wildwood”

Ashland Independent Film Festival now Accepting Entries

Eastern Oregon Film Festival Begins the Roll Out

The 2011 Eastern Oregon Film Festival is starting the countdown. Festival passes are now available, sponsoring opportunities are being finalized, submissions are closed and the programmers are smiling. Check out the offerings and information below – get your pass (they will go fast) and stay tuned as the music line-up starts spilling out.

FESTIVAL FRIENDS: HERE’S YOUR OPPORTUNITY!

Festival Passes are a way of supporting the Eastern Oregon Film Festival (EOFF) while taking advantage of great offers from local businesses and all-access admission to exciting activities.

Local Film “Rid of Me” Secures Distribution with Phase 4

“Rid of Me”, directed, written, and produced by James Westby and Produced by star Katie O’Grady has been acquired by Phase 4 films. The film has already had great success in several film festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival earlier in the year. As announced today in Deadline Hollywood the film will get a theatrical release through the deal. Phase 4 has a wide array of titles in it’s catalog most recently being Kevin Smith’s “Red State”. No details on the exact release date but the announcement referenced a fall date.

Roland Emmerich at Concordia University Shakespeare Centre in Downtown Portland

My name is Francesca. I am from Italy and I am a student at Bocconi University. I am studying Economics for the Arts, and my passion for cinema brought me to become an intern at the Oregon Film Office this summer.

As an intern and a student, I will have the opportunity to attend a special event: the screening of “Anonymous,” Roland Emmerich’s latest movie. In fact, The Concordia University Shakespeare Centre will bestow the “Vero Nihil Verius Award of Artistic Excellence” to Roland Emmerich during their annual conference (September 6^{th 2011} -9^{th 2011}).

The Oregon Film Factory Movie Museum showing on “Animal House” opens Friday, September 2nd, 2011.

Katherine Wilson kicks off her Traveling Movie Museum on Friday from 4 to 7pm with an open house @ Jameson’s Retro Bar and Lounge, Broadway and Olive, downtown Eugene. A no-host bar is available. Jameson’s also provided the framing for over 30 images and posters from the iconic film. Many of them will be shown to the public for the first time since the filming 35 years ago. The exhibit ends Sept. 30th.

Wilson, a native Oregonian filmmaker, was the Location Scout and Location Casting director for the movie.

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