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DIY Spirit Shines with People’s Portlandia

Last year the TV show Portlandia drew attention to some of the qualities that make our city unique. Maybe for some of you those skits and characters paled in comparison to your own experiences living in Portland. Alongside the second season of Portlandia, the Hollywood Theatre, in patnership with PSU’s MFA in Art and Social Practice program will host the first ever “People’s Portlandia,” a collection of Portlandia inspired skits made by Portland residents.

Entries will be accepted through www.peoplesportlandia.com beginning in early December.

Film Production Accounting Workshop

Film Production Payroll and Accounting Workshop

January 21st, 8am – 5pm
PSU Campus, Lincoln Hall, Room 315
1620 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97201

Register for the event online: http://businessofentertainment-portland.eventbrite.com/

Early Registration Offer. Register before 1/18 and your name will be entered into drawings for free Showbiz Software. Plus, all attendees will receive a special 10% discount on production and software tools at Showbiz Software’s online store www.showbizsoftware.com. Don’t miss this opportunity, courtesy of Media Services and Showbiz Software.

Last Call to list in Oregon’s Media Production Directory for 2012

The final deadline to list in SourceOregon — Oregon’s film, TV, commercial and new media production industry directory — is midnight on January 1st, 2012. If you have not yet renewed or added your listing to Oregon’s 2012 directory of crew & services, visit www.SourceOregon.com today.

Every major producer and coordinator currently shooting in Oregon endorses SourceOregon as the best resource for hiring crew, equipment and services. Print and digital copies are distributed to each commercial, feature and television production company that considers shooting here.

Oregon Film “The Perception of Moving Targets” Selected to Screen at Sundance

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Local film maker Weston Currie’s film “The Perception of Moving Targets” will screen at the Sundance Film Festival as a part of the New Frontier series. Here’s a link to more info on the film via the Sundance Website. The festival has featured quite a few films from Oregon in past years including last year’s award winning documentary “How to Die in Oregon”. According to Weston’s bio on the Sundance site this is his first feature after several short form films.

Job Posting – 3D Studio Max Technical Director for Bent Image Lab

Position: 3D Studio Max Technical Director

Bent Image Lab is seeking Pipeline TD’s for all areas of production including animation, stereoscopic and visual effects.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Recorded Webcast of Annual Meeting Available

This year the University of Oregon’s media team was able to record the annual meeting and now it’s available here. If you have a Mac you’ll first need to download the flip for Mac Application which can be found here. One quick note – we ran a 15 minute pre-show of clips prior to the meeting beginning and that is on the front end of the video. If you’re interested in knowing what the clips are –

#1 – YouTube video of a boy who wrote “An Ode to Fred Armisen” after meeting him on the set of ‘Portlandia”

#2 – “Rid of Me” Trailer

#3 – “Gone” Trailer

#4 – a series of commercials from the animation studio Bent Image Lab

#5 – Leverage Location Video

#6 – Behind the Scenes of “Grimm”

Elemental Technologies receives award for Innovation in Media Arts

It sounds like a cliché but it’s very true. Innovation is a key ingredient to future economic growth. This is as true in the media industry as it is any other. Over the past few years Oregon has seen several promising media technology companies start up. One such company is Elemental Technologies, which is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 2006 by CEO Sam Blackman, Chief Technology Officer Jesse Rosenzweig, and Chief Architect Brian Lewis, Elemental has raised over $16 million in financing, which has directly resulted in Elemental’s rapid ascension to become one of the world’s leaders in software designed for video content creation.

Great video from “Leverage’s” Electric Entertainment showing off Oregon

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At last night’s annual meeting we showed off a collection of videos prior to the meeting. Many people were making their way into the room and may have missed this fantastic video that our friends from Electric Entertainment created. We’ve been looking for a fresh way to show off the variety of locations in the area and what better way than to see the locations they way they were shot on “Leverage”? We can’t wait to see what they will shoot next year when they are actually supposed to be in Portland (as was announced last night).

Governor Kitzhaber Presents Green Leadership Award to PlyVeneer Products for Development of Sustainable Set Construction Material, “ScenicPly”

Governor John Kitzhaber, Jim Jones and Garvin Eddy/EcoScenic and Jerry Gabrio/PlyVeneer Products (Photo: Frank DiMarco)

Governor Kitzhaber presented the Oregon Governor’s Award for Green Leadership to PlyVeneer Products, (for the development of ScenicPly in collaboration with EcoScenic) on Monday night at the Film Office’s public Annual Meeting in Portland. Reading the details of the award was First Lady of Oregon, Cylvia Hayes. (Cylvia is also founder of 3E Strategies, a consulting firm and green product development company.)

“Leverage” Readies to Move into a New Stage Space for Season 5

Next year for season 5 of “Leverage,” expect a few changes including a new location for the show’s stages. The truth is the new space is actually an old one that has been frequently used as a stage for several features in the past (“Extraordinary Measures,” “Twilight,” and “Untraceable”). Before this season, the space down in Clackamas was 60,000 square feet of open warehouse space which wasn’t ideal for a TV series. This fall the team at “Leverage” took over the space and are dividing it into three usable production spaces.

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