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10 years – 20 youth workshops – 26 films – it’s time to celebrate! Please join POWGirls for the premiere of their Summer 2024 films and a retrospective of their films from the past ten years!
🎬✨ Doors open at 1:15 PM—come early to grab a seat, snack, and a drink from the concession stand, and check out our supporter tables! 🍿🥤 The screening kicks off at 2:00 PM, followed by a Q&A with the amazing POWGirls, both past and present!
Rise: Community Cinema Showcase is co-presented by Catalyst Film Collective and Women in Film – Portland. The showcase will feature seven short films made by members from both organizations, tied by themes of rising above life’s challenges to uncover our truest selves.
Catalyst Film Collective is a Portland-based nonprofit elevating new voices in film by creating opportunities for members of marginalized communities to tell our own stories—both in front of and behind the camera—at all levels of production.
Women in Film – Portland is a non-profit serving the Portland community whose mission is to elevate woman and non-binary folks through education, outreach, and professional development.
Entertainment payroll company Greenslate recently sat down with Oregon Film’s Executive Director Tim Williams to talk about why you should consider Oregon for your next creative project.
Oregon is a state with a rich history in film production and one where a personal touch and the underlying culture make it uniquely helpful to independent filmmakers as well as a draw for mid to large scale productions.
You can read the full article here.
The Klamath Independent Film Festival continues its run as the leading all-genre, Oregon-centric film festival, presented for the fifth year both in-person and on-demand/livestreaming!
For the 2024 rendition we continue to showcase the best in independent Oregon filmmaking at the historic Ross Ragland Theater. We plan to continue our hybrid online festival presentation and opening night gala honoring one iconic Made-in-Oregon film. The ever-popular custom awards designed by local artists in the Southern Cascade Woodcrafters Guild will also return in 2024, and the second year of the prestigious James Ivory Award for career achievement in film with Oregon roots.
Portland Dance Film Fest returns for its multi-day festival running September 26th – 28th, 2024. Join us for 27 spectacular PDFF Picks, curated from 14 different countries. Each screening is a crafted evening of original and diverse dance film. PDFF 2024 is in partnership with the Portland Art Museum’s Center for An Untold Tomorrow and will be screened at PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater.
PDFF Picks
Tomorrow Theater
3530 SE Division St, Portland, OR
PDFF Picks 1 | September 26th, 2024 | 7:30pm
PDFF Picks 2 | September 27th, 2024 | 7:30pm
PDFF Picks 3 | September 28th, 2024 | 7:30pm
$20 Per Night in advance | $25 at the door
$15 artist/student rate
$50 Festival Pass
Portland Dance Film Fest showcases the art form of dance film, featuring a diverse range of films that use movement to tell stories.
Join us for a special 10th anniversary screening of WILD with author Cheryl Strayed in a conversation with Oregon Film’s Tim Williams about the making of the film here in Oregon. September 12 at 730p at the Hollywood Theatre.
Shot in 2013 and released in September of 2014, WILD displays Oregon in all of its glory (as well as doubling for the High Sierras and the California Desert). Reese Witherspoon stars and sets out on a journey of discovery on the Pacific Crest Trail.
BendFilm’s Black, Indigenous, Person of Color (BIPOC) Women Filmmaking Grant will support a woman BIPOC artist with $10,000 toward making their short or feature film. The grant supports storytellers who are working to tell creative and complex stories told from a point of view that is unique and authentic.
On-screen representation affects cultural understanding of BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ characters. Barriers need to be broken down until equal representation is achieved on-screen and behind the camera.
BendFilm’s Grant will support a BIPOC women artist with $10,000 toward making their short or feature film.
Confluence is pleased to announce the second Confluence Filmmaker Fellows program.
Three Indigenous video artists will receive cash prizes to support a film project they are developing: one for $5,000 and two for $2,500. Three other Emerging Indigenous Filmmakers will receive full camera kits (or equivalent cost equipment, calculated at $800) so that they can take their craft to the next level.
Eligible projects would align broadly to Confluence’s mission to connect people to the history, living cultures, and ecology of our region through Indigenous voices.
Four panelists RaShaunda Brooks, Miró Merrill, Cassandra Nicholson, and Amy Polansky will discuss how to create compelling pitch decks and successful presentations on “The Art of the Pitch” a panel being hosted by Women in Film PDX.
There will be free giveaways and a community mixer that’s sure to make an eventful night. This event is open to all gender identities, backgrounds and experience levels.
The Art of the Pitch, September 5, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM at Only Today Studios, 2222 NE Oregon St Suite 110, Portland, OR 97232.
Magenta Light Studios will be giving Strange Darling a wide theatrical release in the United States on August 23rd – and a new trailer for the film has arrived online, along with a pair of posters.
Shot in Oregon last year, “Strange Darling” was written and directed by J.T. Mollner (Outlaws and Angels) and was produced by former Miramax CEO Bill Block, Chris Ivan Cevic, Steven Schneider, Roy Lee, and actor Giovanni Ribisi, who also served as the director of photography.
