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Great Film Festival Programming in Ashland and Eugene Coming in April

March 19, 2012 Oregon Film Events, Film Festivals, Uncategorized Ashland Independent Film Festival, Cinema Pacific, Disorient Film Festival1 Comment

Once again in April Oregon is home to a series of great film festivals in consecutive weeks. The eleventh annual Ashland Independent Film Festival is happening April 12-16. This year the festival is honoring acclaimed director Julie Taymor. With Ms. Taymor’s experience in both live theater and film, it makes perfect sense that Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch will join Ms. Taymor on stage for a certain lively and engaging discussion. Other filmmakers expected to be in attendance include documentarian Ondi Timor and director Lynn Shelton. Continue reading... “Great Film Festival Programming in Ashland and Eugene Coming in April”

One Night Only – World Premiere: A Midsummer Night’s Dream In Prison

July 25, 2022July 27, 2022 Oregon Film #OregonMade #PAMCUT, A Midsummer Night's Dream In Prison, Bushra Azzouz1 Comment

With editor Enie Vaisburd (Pacific University), Ellen Thomas (Educational Director PAMCut) co-lead the Portland creative team which just completed experimental filmmaker, Bushra Azzouz’s new feature documentary, A Midsummer Night’s Dream In Prison. The film is about a group of inmates at the Two Rivers Correctional Facility in Umatilla who put on a Shakespeare play and, in the process, reimagine their lives.

The World Premiere is Sunday, August 7, 6pm at Cinema 21. A number of the inmates, now released, will be in attendance for a post film Q&A.

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHIVE: Mara of the Wilderness (Frank McDonald, 1966)

December 8, 2017 Oregon Film Uncategorized Adam West, archive film, Lori Sanders, Mara of the Wilderness, Oregon Film, Oregon film history, Raiders of the Lost ArchiveLeave a Comment

Oregon doubles for Alaska in this week’s RotLA edition and it brings some (early) Batman-esque Romp! Danger! and Romance! to the fore in the process. Yes, Adam West is this week’s featured artist in a Deschutes National Forest set feature which predates Mr. West’s glorious days as the first caped crusader to appear on our screens and sends him into the woods to find unexpected love with a Nature Child and danger from rogue hunters in the form of Petticoat Junction’s Lori Sanders and Theo Marcuse, respectively. Continue reading... “RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHIVE: Mara of the Wilderness (Frank McDonald, 1966)”

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHIVE: Halloweentown (Duwayne Dunham 1998)

October 27, 2017November 2, 2017 Oregon Film Uncategorized archive film, Film History, Halloween, Raiders of the Lost ArchiveLeave a Comment

This week’s Hooray for Horregon RotLA edition comes with two truly great ingredients: Debbie Reynolds and St. Helens. If you haven’t seen HBO’s Emmy nominated “Bright Lights” (full disclosure, it was produced and directed by friend, former business partner and Astoria-filmed “Short Circuit” actor Fisher Stevens and his life-partner baby[ies]-mama Lexy Bloom), and, if you haven’t visited St. Helens (at Halloween or, as a seasonal alternative, by boat to the town dock in August for a riverside lunch and a beer), you need to do both. Continue reading... “RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHIVE: Halloweentown (Duwayne Dunham 1998)”

Raiders of the Lost Archive “Eclipse Clips”
THE POSTMAN (1997)

August 18, 2017August 23, 2017 Oregon Film UncategorizedLeave a Comment

This week our cinematic history starts to criss-cross itself with a film that was made 20 years ago but set only 4 years ago in a world that echoes…well, you can take from it what you will…

A great deal of post-apocalyptic beauty was found in Central Oregon for this 90’s blockbuster which winds its way from Elvis to St. Rose, Oregon, and Phil Oppenheim argues that it is worth a 3 hour re-look – especially in the (lack) of light along the Path of Totality. Continue reading... “Raiders of the Lost Archive “Eclipse Clips”
THE POSTMAN (1997)”

Ashland Independent Film Festival Announces Juried and Audience Award Winners

April 13, 2017 Emily McPeck Film Festivals, Independent Films Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, Alex Cox, Ashland Independent Film Festival, Black Canaries, City of Joy, Cortez, Gerald Hirschfeld, I Am Another You, James Ivory, Jenni Olson, Kish, Last Leatherman of the Vale of Cashmere, Les Blank, My First Kiss and the People Involved, Plea, Pushing Dead, Quest, Rachel Lambert, Southern Oregon, The Boatman, The Missing Sun, The Tables, Whose Streets?Leave a Comment

The Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF) announced the highly anticipated juried and audience award-winning films for work screened at the 16th annual festival, April 6-10, 2017. “I’m particularly pleased that the audience chose different films to award than the juries,” said festival director Richard Herskowitz. “Since many of our films this year deserved special recognition, I’m glad we were able to hand out local artisan Dennis DeBey’s beautiful statuette to so many deserving artists.”

James Ivory, legendary director and Klamath Falls native, received the AIFF Lifetime Achievement Award. Continue reading... “Ashland Independent Film Festival Announces Juried and Audience Award Winners”

Join Us Sept. 7 for Hollywood Filmmaker Roland Emmerich

July 29, 2011 mturnock Education, Events All Classical, Anonymous, Concordia University, Emmerich, Literary Arts & Lectures, Portland Center Stage, Roland Emmerich, Schwabe, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre, Williamson & WyattLeave a Comment

Oregon Film joins Concordia University in welcoming prominent Hollywood director and producer Roland Emmerich To Portland on Sept. 7, 2011. Emmerich will headline Concordia University’s Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre’s Fall Conference, Sept. 6-9 in Portland, Ore. His new film, Anonymous, speculates on a centuries-old question – did William Shakespeare really write the works attributed to him? – and offers one possible answer.

Other sponsors joining Concordia University and Oregon Film include All Classical 89.9 FM, Literary Arts & Lectures, Portland Center Stage, and Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt. Continue reading... “Join Us Sept. 7 for Hollywood Filmmaker Roland Emmerich”