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OpenLens Festival adds Screenwriting Competition

Eugene, OR. The eighth annual OpenLens Festival is pleased to announce the addition of a scriptwriting competition for 2012. Rubicon Film Productions Ltd., a Eugene based company, is sponsoring a special $250 best screenplay prize for a short narrative film. Submitted scripts of 15 pages or less will be accepted. This competition is open to both those Oregon filmmakers entering the OpenLens film competition and screenwriters whose scripts have not yet been produced. The deadline for submissions is 5PM Friday, December 2nd.

Hinge Digital: Un-Hinged!

Come out for our December 10th event and see what the team at Hinge Digital has been up to recently! From sports cars, footwear and rampaging robots to cheeky space captains, this band of ex-Sony/Disney/Laika/D-Neg stand-outs bring a combination of technical know how and creative imagination that only few companies can claim in their leadership.

Come hear industry stories from Michael, Roland,Alex & Ramiro as they breakdowns projects while you network with Portland’s finest talent in 3d animation and VFX!

Governor’s Film and TV Office Annual Meeting – December 12

Oregon Film Annual Meeting On December 12 at 6:00 PM please join us and Governor John Kitzhaber either in person or at the three teleconference sites to celebrate Oregon’s record breaking year for Film and Television production. We also are holding back a few exciting announcements for this event that will be worth celebrating the future of the industry. As is the case every year we will be recognizing a few outstanding efforts across the state that have played a part in the industry’s success.

Grimm Doesn’t Just Look Green Because Of The Weather….

We could not have been happier when NBC Universal contacted us to collaborate on their greening efforts for the series, Grimm. We immediately recognized this particular show as a good match and unique opportunity to put the foundation of our previous work in identifying green vendors and services to good use.

NBCUniversal’s Green Is Universal initiative has an admirable, on-going, corporate-wide environmental initiative that attempts to lessen their shows’ environmental impact by working with local resources and finding innovative ways to improve on their overall footprint.

Make it Short – 40th Anniversary Contest

Make it sad. Make it funny. Make it terrifying. Make it in 40 seconds.
To celebrate the Film Center’s 40th anniversary, we invite Northwest filmmakers to enter the MAKE IT SHORT film contest. No matter what genre or format—narrative, documentary, experimental, animation, 16mm, camera phone, DSLR—we want to see it, but keep it short: 40 seconds or less.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 6, 2012 (postmarked)
http://bit.ly/sCyXvV

Live (or previously recorded) from NYC it’s “Rid of Me”!!!!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afPjn4S2ObY[/youtube]

Do you want to know what it takes now for independent film makers to get the word out for their film? Check out this video. James Westby and Katie O’Grady have taken to the streets to promote their film “Rid of Me” and I can’t sing their praises enough for the effort they’ve put forth. The film screened earlier in the year at the Tribecca film festival and received overwhelmingly positive reveiws. From that they secured a distribution deal for the film through Phase 4 films.

Weiden + Kennedy: The Future of Creative Business – check it out!

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/31817335[/vimeo]

I just came across this interesting talk from two Weiden + Kennedy employees talking about the future of creative business. I found it very interesting and worth watching. Weiden + Kennedy over the past few years have been pushing the envelope of what a creative advertising agency does and the results have been very successful. So check out Dan Hon and Nick Barham and hear what they have to say.

-Vince

3rd Annual Women In Film (WIF-PDX) Holiday Party!

We look forward to seeing you at the Women in Film, Portland OR 3rd Annual Holiday Party! Come celebrate with us!

When: Thursday, November, 17 from 7-10pm
Where: Hotel Deluxe Screening Room / 729 SW 15th Avenue Portland, OR 97205

This event is free and open to the general public, we will be providing free appetizers and there will be a CASH BAR at the event.

We will be introducing our new WIF-PDX Board to the community and announcing the recipient of this year’s WIF-PDX / Faerie-Godmother Grant!

Ashland Independent Film Festival Call for Entries. Regular Submission Deadline, Friday Nov. 18.

Ashland Independent Film Festival Call for Entries 2012 Regular Deadline Friday Nov. 18

A Little More About “Population: 2”

A dead world, a woman surviving alone, and the coffin she brings back every evening to her home.

These are the elements that make up Population: 2, an all-Oregon project that filmed in 2010 and is screening December 8th, 2011, at the Bagdad theater. The information for getting free tickets to the event is in a recent Confluence blog post, but unfortunately the post was a little garbled due to a browser incompatibility. For that reason, I’ll be reposting the information here.

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