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Oregon Film – Who We Are & What We Do (Jan 2023 Update)

Here at the Oregon Film office, we often get the question: “What do you do?” Well, the best answer is “a lot” but that isn’t sufficient to really capture all the work that goes on in this office. So let’s break it down.

The Oregon Film office has the mandate to oversee the economic development of the film, television, interactive, animation, and commercial industries in Oregon – with projects and producers that are living and working within the state, as well as projects and producers that are looking to bring their shows from outside of Oregon.

Baker’s Place On Oregon’s Film Trail

By LISA BRITTON [email protected] (Link to the full article with images here.)

Oregon is featured in more than 500 films, and a project by the state film office is marking movie locations with informational signs.

Baker County has three signs, all dedicated to the 1969 musical “Paint Your Wagon,” which was filmed here in 1968.

The markers can be found outside Baker Heritage Museum, 2480 Grove St., inside the lodge at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort, and outside the city hall in Richland, once the ground thaws (this one will eventually be placed at Richland’s future playground).

My name’s Tristian: I had an idea!

I’m a stand-up, but I want to make movies, or just write them. Or act. Or edit. Or decoupage, but I don’t think anyone would pay me for that, really anything but any stand-up.

Also, I really like to do stand-up.

So my idea! I’ll make a movie with stand-up comedians (and a musician.)

Party Quest showed at the Kiggin’s Theater December the 8th, featuring an hour-long live show of music and comedy with the cast, and finished up with the short film as the headliner.

GUNDERMANN (Gundermann)

The Portland German Film Festival is showing in our Monthly Film Series, a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, audiences will have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children’s movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles.

GUNDERMANN (Gundermann)

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 – 7:00 PM

Germany 2018, 128 min
Directed by Andreas Dresen

Cast: Alexander Scheer, Anna Unterberger, Axel Prahl, Thorsten Merten, Bjarne Mädel, Milan Peschel, Kathrin Angerer

After his outing into family entertainment with TIMM THALER, director Andreas Dresen has now returned to Germany’s recent past with his portrait of the contradictory life of the digger driver Gerhard Gundermann who made a name for himself as a singer-songwriter in former East Germany, tragically dying at only 43 in 1998.

PARIS CALLIGRAMMES (Paris Calligrammes)

The Portland German Film Festival shows in our Monthly Film Series, a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, audiences will have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children’s movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles.

PARIS CALLIGRAMMES (Paris Calligrammes)

Tuesday, March 14, 2023 – 7:00 PM

Germany/ France 2019, 129 min
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger

“In Paris Calligrammes, the artist Ulrike Ottinger casts a highly personal and subjective gaze back to the twentieth century.

LIFE ON TAPE (Bilder (m)einer Mutter)

The Portland German Film Festival will show in our Monthly Film Series, a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, audiences will have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children’s movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles

LIFE ON TAPE (Bilder (m)einer Mutter)

Tuesday, January 10, 2023 – 7:00 PM

Germany 2021, 78 min
Directed by Melanie Lischker

A seemingly entirely normal childhood in the 80s captured on countless video cassettes.

BendFilm and OUT Central Oregon To Launch New Festival

OUT IN FOCUS FilmFest looks to Celebrate LGBTQ+ Films and Filmmakers in Central Oregon

BendFilm, Inc and OUT Central Oregon have signed a joint venture agreement to create and launch the inaugural OUT IN FOCUS FilmFest. The new annual film festival is scheduled for March 2-4, 2023 in Bend, Oregon and will bring filmmakers and films focused on celebrating LGBTQ+ life experiences, diversity in the outdoors, and include premieres of some of the best new films of the year.

The OUT IN FOCUS FilmFest will present recently released leading edge films to provide a winter opportunity for the community to convene, view, and connect around important topics.

Job Opening at Filmed by Bike Film Festival

We’re looking for an enthusiastic Festival and Partnerships Assistant to join our team for the 2023 season. This role oversees our community partnerships, limited sponsorships, Box Office Management and other duties as needed.

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Part Time: An average of 10-50 hours a month with a flexible work schedule.

The Festival and Partnerships Assistant is responsible for maintaining their own hours. Hours increase significantly in January during Partnerships Season and then again in April and May as the festival weekend approaches.

Expedia Calls Set-Jetting (Film Tourism)The Travel Trend Of 2023

Did you know over 100 million people a year are inspired to travel by movies and TV?

Our Oregon Film Trail partner, and Seattle company, SetJetters, has already built the app for this kind of “Film Tourism”! SetJetters has digitized an $8 billion dollar tourism industry and put it all in one place.

The concept of Film Tourism (Set-Jetting) was explained last week on the Today Show and explores the statement from Expedia that Set-Jetting is the travel trend of 2023!

Free Festival Submissions to Oregon Film Festivals for Oregon Students

As part of a limited program, through Oregon Film’s newly created Creative Opportunity Program, many Oregon Film Festivals are offering waived submission fees for Oregon students.

Participating festivals include:

BendFilm
Portland Film Festival
McMinnville Short Film Festival
Eastern Oregon Film Festival
Klamath Independent Film Festival
We Like ’em Short (Baker City)

This program will be available only for a limited time as long as funds remain available and can be cancelled at any time. It is only open to current students attending high schools, prep schools, community colleges and universities as well as other higher education facilities in Oregon.

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