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Third Annual Portland Dance Film Fest

Dance Film Brute

 

Portland Dance Film Fest opens next month!

October 3rd – 5th, 2019
at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium

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Dance Film Alice in Nite Hawk

Portland Dance Film Fest is excited to partner with NW Film Center to provide a screen and an audience for artists who are making relevant and inspired dance for film from around the world. This year’s festival will include 20 dance film shorts, four dance mini documentaries, & the Oregon Dance Film Commission.

The ODFC is a grant and platform for selected local artists to create a dance film culminating in a world premiere during the 2019 festival.

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CASTING CALL: Oregon Residents Who Have Bought Health Insurance Through HealthCare.gov or OregonHealthCare.gov

CAST IRON STUDIOS

is currently seeking:

Oregon Residents Ages 20-45 Who Have Bought Health Insurance Through HealthCare.gov or OregonHealthCare.gov

To be interviewed on-camera for a video for Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace

 

We want to hear what having your coverage means to you!

DETAILS
SUBMIT: Submissions (details below) due by 6PM Friday September 6

CASTING: If selected, we will contact you with an appointment for a casting call on Tuesday September 10

FILMING: Week of September 30, one-day shoot

COMPENSATION: Up to $1,000 for TV and Digital use in the state of Oregon, with potential for additional compensation

SOUND INTERESTING?

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Why indie films need creative marketing

Show biz on an indie budget takes creative marketing.

Official Poster

This summer, Willamette Week, Portland’s Pulitzer-winning paper of a juicy half-of-a-million readers, reviewed a press release from Hapstance Films, and look what happened — an engaging full-paged story in last week’s issue. Check it out here.

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Jonathan Raymond @ ISA Third Thursdays PDX 9/19!

Screenwriters & Filmmakers — Summer’s over and we’re baaaack! ISA THIRD THURSDAYS PDX kicks off its “fall season” with a bang on September 19th with guest speaker

Writer and screenwriter Jonathan Raymond

JONATHAN RAYMOND — author and Emmy-nominated TV/screenwriter (Mildred Pierce, Meek’s Cutoff, Night Moves, First Cow).

A truly rare opportunity to hang out with a very special writer and screenwriter — who collaborates often with the fabulous director, Kelly Reichardt.
 
WHEN: Thursday, September 19th – 7pm
WHERE: NW Film Center Office & South Park *
934 SW Salmon, Portland OR, 97205
* We begin at NW Film then migrate across the street to South Park.
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#EOFF2019 Official Selections

Eastern Oregon Film Festival is delighted to announce the official film selections for the TENTH annual three-day event held October 24-26 in La Grande, Oregon.

EOFF’s programming staff received a record number of submitted films this year spanning a wide variety of themes, genres and formats. Festival-goers will be taken on a journey through works like Milena Pastreich’s PIGEON KINGS, which documents the men in South Central LA who train pigeons for the competitive sport of avian acrobatics, and into Taryn Southern and Elena Gaby’s sci-fi documentary exploring the co-evolution of humans and technology in I AM HUMAN, and back again with Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s haunting and inspiringly imaginative EMPTY METAL.

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“First Cow” In Main Progam At The 46th Telluride Film Festival

The 46th Telluride Film Festival line up included in its main program the #OregonMade feature, “First Cow.”  The film is directed by Kelly Reichardt, based upon the novel by Jonathan Raymond (and written by Raymond and Reichardt) and produced by Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani and Vincent Savino. Many on the production team have worked together on other #OregonMade projects such as; “Wendy and Lucy,” “Night Moves” and “Meek’s Cutoff” among others.

The Telluride Film Festival is a “celebration of artistic excellence brings together cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers and artists to discover the best in world cinema in the beautiful mountain town of Telluride, Colorado.”

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The Portland Circuit is Looking For its Next Project

The #OregonMade Creative Foundation has teamed up with four of the best independent cinemas located in all four of the quadrants of Portland, Northwest Film CenterThe Hollywood TheatreClinton Street Theatre and Cinema 21, to enact a program designed to give locally produced, #OregonMade feature length films a short theatrical distribution window in the city. Screenings will consist of a four day run, with one night at each theatre, in the four “quadrants” of Portland: The Portland Circuit.

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Hinge – A Portland Creative Production Studio, Featured In The Statesman Journal

The Statesman Journal has featured Hinge, a Portland-based creative production studio, and Executive Producer Roland Gauthier, in a recent article that emphasizes the studio’s accomplishments with popular animated Cartoon Network show “Toonami”, and follows the unique dynamic of the Oregon Film Industry as it compares to a “Changing Hollywood”.

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2020 Oregon Coast Film Festival: Call for Submissions

“Call for Submissions”
The Oregon Coast Film Festival is an exhibition of Oregon films, filmmakers, cinematographers and photographers. Scheduled for January 24-25, 2020 at the Egyptian Theatre in Coos Bay, Oregon.

“Call for Submissions” –  July 15, 2019 to December 15, 2019

We screen short films, photography collections, student films and selected feature film(s).
Submissions and guidelines are through FilmFreeway and guidelines are available here.

Considered submissions into the film festival should have a connection to the People, Culture, Environment, Landscape and Artists of Oregon, the Pacific Northwest and the rivers and oceans.

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Chomp! PDX: A New Food & Film Festival in Portland

A night of eclectic films, food & beer. The mission of Chomp! is to explore our relationship to food through film. This inaugural event’s theme is horror.

Featuring short films by local artists Mila Zuo, Kelly Cox, and Cooper Johnson and more. Hosted by Dirk Marshall of the popular VHUS Podcast. Filmmakers will be on hand for Q&A and networking after the programming.

Portland’s own Pono Brewing company will be releasing a limited release Red IPA along with Chef Sarah Schneider serving up some killer grub.

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