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Summer Opportunities for Oregon Filmmakers & Digital Artist

Remember what it felt like the moment that you wanted to make movies? Where where you? What inspired you to create? Who inspired you to create? What if you could be the person who sparks the creativity of the next great filmmaker or digital artist?

I loved my freelance life (yep, a production designer, wardrobe designer, production coordinator and writer), but when things were slow, I had to look for other opportunities and I found the most amazing group of people: kids who already knew they wanted to be in the biz!

Congratulations W+K

The only way you weren’t entertained by at least one Weiden + Kennedy campaign this year was if you refused to look at one screen all year. Between their “Old Spice” campaign and various “Nike” campaigns, it’s been a banner year for the Portland headquartered ad agency. Here is a link to their blog where they list all the year end accolades the agency has received so far in 2010. It’s hard to call W+K and ad agency any more after “Old Spice” campaign considering the campaign was as entertaining as most programming these days.

Oregon Film Annual Meeting – Things Shaping Up!

With our Annual Meeting a little over a week away, things are coming together and I know it’s going to be a great night! As for the annual meeting here is the date and time:

December 17 @ 7:00

There will be a statewide teleconference so if you live in or nearby Ashland, Bend, Eugene, or Portland, you can attend. It’s open to the public.

In Portland we will be originating the teleconference from the newly remodeled Lincoln Hall at Portland State University.

OMPA THANKS YOU! Industry Holiday Party

Highly anticipated annual party by Oregon’s premier film/TV production non-profit

The Oregon Media Production Association (OMPA) announces its annual winter holiday party for commercial, film and television industry professionals on Friday, December 17th, 2010 from 8 pm to 11 pm at Portland City Hall. Hundreds of guests including government leaders, producers, artists, actors, crew, agents and vendors – a who’s who in Oregon’s biz – are scheduled to attend. Doors open immediately following the Governor’s Office of Film & Television annual meeting at PSU’s Lincoln Hall.

Portland-based Animator and Students Help Create “Community” Holiday Episode

shapeimage_2 — Portland Animation Director Teresa Drilling

Fans of the NBC comedy Community have been looking forward to tonight’s Holiday episode, in which the show’s cast is transformed into holiday-special-style stop motion characters. Where did the producers of Community look when they were searching for someone to create these Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer-like stop motion characters?

According to the Oregonian’s Kirsti Turnquist, the producers turned their eyes north to Portland, where they found animation specialist Teresa Drilling. Drilling, who won an Emmy in 2008 for her work on Creature Comforts, worked “around the clock” for two months on the NBC comedy… and she also took four Art Institute of Portland students along for the ride!

Paydogs LLC Provides Script Clearances

Since September Paydogs has been set up as an Oregon vendor providing fiscal support services to media productions in Oregon. It’s been an exciting 3 months as we’ve run payroll for two features, and have continued to expand the scope of what we are able to offer.

Most recently Paydogs has become the only Oregon vendor providing Title Search and Script Clearances for feature films, animation or TV projects. Anyone interested in a rate quote can contact Susan Haley at: susan@paydogs.com

Check out W+K’s Ian Tait’s Presentation – it’s good!

I saw a tweet from W+K today and immediately got immersed with Ian Tait’s presentation on this website. He was speaking recently in London at the Creativity and Technology conference. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that every creative professional in Oregon check this out. Ian joined W+K a year or so ago after success in the digital media industry in London. I think he’s a real visionary and someone I hope will be a great asset for our local community.

Much of what Ian touches on is an extension of what we tried to cover at “The Brave New World of Media” event a few weeks ago and it’s reassuring that someone of Ian’s status in on the same track as many others in Oregon.

D.B. Sweeney to star in new TV pilot set in Portland

Turner Broadcasting announced today that D.B. Sweeney has been cast to play the lead in Electric Entertainment’s pilot set in Portland titled “Brain Trust”. Here’s the info on the pilot. Dean Devlin will be directing the pilot which is due to shoot in Portland in December for two weeks. We were thrilled to have Electric bring a second project to Oregon and even more excited to hear that they made the decision to re-write this pilot for Portland. The original script had set the pilot in Washington D.C.

“Leverage” and Oregon Film Makes it into Coscto

A few months back I was contacted by the PR executives at TNT regarding a profile that Costco was looking to do on “Leverage”. I was curious why Costco of all companies was interested in talking about Oregon Film and Video but when I found out that their Costco Connections gets sent out to over 8,000,000 people nationwide, I realized it didn’t really matter why they were interested, it was great exposure for our state and this industry.

It all started back when Lana Veenker came up with the brilliant idea of her “Thug Boot Camp” before the commencement of production for season 3 of “Leverage”.

“A Walk in My Shoes” – New Online Material

50315_104463622939983_7494076_n — A Walk in My Shoes - Shot in Portland

I was sent this website today which has some great material from the show. Lots of behind the scenes footage which shows off Portland in a great way. Even Jim Clark from Hive FX made an appearance in the clip about the skateboarding scenes.

It also finally confirmed that “A Walk In My Shoes” will be airing on NBC Friday December 3 at 8:00PM. The whole film was shot and set in Portland.

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