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Join us for short films with an opportunity to meet the filmmakers, games, concessions, live performances, a silent auction including an opportunity to bid on a 2024 MSFF Weekend Package in McMinnville, OR. Each ticket includes a complimentary alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage and snacks.
November 4th – 6:30 PM – Echo Theater in Portland, OR
Get more info and tickets here.
KINO is excited to share with Oregon filmmakers the KINO Short Film Fest. Proudly sponsored by Panavision and Final Draft. Top prizes include the Judge’s Choice Award of $25,000 and the People’s Choice Award of $5,000. Filmmakers also have the chance for KINO (a Film Finance Company) to transform their short film (or another idea) into a full-length feature film. No other film festival offers this.
Additional industry prizes include: The Panavision Award for Cinematography and the Final Draft Award for the Most Original Script, with a series of other awards to also be distributed.
This month’s very special guest is Mariel Pastor, author and international trainer for IFS therapy (Internal Family Systems) and the creator of CHARACTER MAPPING.
A unique approach to craft for Screenwriters, Directors, and Actors, Character Mapping provides a psychological toolbox for building backstory and authentic characters, while also providing a process for artistic self-discovery. Weaving wisdom from decades of professional experience, Mariel has created a psycho-spiritual approach to character that is transformative for the artist!
WHEN: Thursday, October 19 at 7 p.m.
The annual Location Guide‘s Makers & Shakers Awards are awarded to a production trade association, member organization, or company that has benefited the community and expanded the local talent and skills pool of the creative screen industries. The Oregon Film Office, with its newly minted Creative Opportunity Program, has been shortlisted in the “Initiative to Grow Local Industry” category, along with 8 other nominees.
Makers & Shakers quoted Jean-Frederic Garcia, Events Director for the Awards, as saying: “This year’s entries 
have gone above and beyond what we have ever seen.
Join us on October 24th for a special networking event hosted for the Creatives of Color Oregon. Afterwards, dive into the world of entertainment unions with an informative session on joining a Union, where you’ll have the opportunity to meet and learn from representatives of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 488 (IATSE 488).
From 5-6pm OMPA presents a COCO networking mixer. A vibrant networking social hour designed for Creatives of Color.
It’s true — David Byrne has reasons to be cheerful about Portland! Join us for the opening of the Tomorrow Theater, where he will chat with folks right here in our community about everything from their creative approach to affordable housing to artists and community leaders changing our world in a myriad of impactful ways.
David will guide audiences through the stories that inspire him to think differently on how to change for whom, by whom, and how we approach the future.
Oregon Humanities is now accepting proposals for our Community Storytelling Fellowship. We’re looking for people who belong to communities that are underrepresented in Oregon media to share stories from those communities in our magazine and other publications in 2024.
This fellowship supports storytellers working in any nonfiction medium—written journalism, audio, video, comics, photography, and more.
The Oregon Film Museum and the Astoria International Film Festival present an evening of Vampira on Friday, October 27 at the Liberty Theater in Astoria. It is a free event beginning at 7:00 pm, doors open at 6:00 pm.
Actress Maila Nurmi—better known as her alter-ego, TV’s original horror host Vampira—lived in Astoria from 1939-1941, graduating from high school here and working to save enough money to try her hand at Hollywood fame. Before starring in her character’s eponymously-named Vampira Show or in director Ed Wood’s cult-classic Plan 9 from Outer Space, Maila passed her days in Astoria dancing the jitterbug and driving the local bookmobile.
The Oregon Film Museum seeks to inspire the next generation of storytellers in Oregon. We are excited to announce the “Oregon Film Museum Selig Award” that will be presented annually to a young Oregonian involved in the local film industry.
Partnering with “Outside the Frame” we have identified the first recipient: Fevan “Rose” Solomon.
Solomon will receive the award and a small stipend on November 10 at the Liberty Theater in Astoria at 7:00 pm. Solomon’s documentary film “Stories I’ve Told the Stars” will be screened followed by a Q & A with the filmmaker.
There has long been speculation that there may be some hidden treasure tucked away on the rocky Oregon coast, but did this rumor inspire the beloved Oregon movie, “The Goonies”? A new documentary, “The True Quest for Fabled Treasure on the Oregon Coast” explores the 2022 discovery of timbers from the Santo Cristo de Burgos shipwreck and the legend that might have been an inspiration for the film. The documentary is set to premiere at the Columbian Theater (Astoria) on Oct.
